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BRITA in PuBs The BRITA in PuBs project within the Eco-Buildings initiative aims at increasing the market penetration of innovative and effective retrofit solutions to improve energy efficiency and implement renewables, with moderate additional costs. In the first place, this is realised by the exemplary retrofit of 8 demonstration public buildings in the four participating European regions (North, Central, South, East). By choosing public buildings of different types such as colleges, cultural centres, nursing homes, student houses, churches etc. for implementing the measures it will be easier to reach groups of differing age and social origin. Public buildings are used as engines to heighten awareness and sensitise society on energy conservation. Secondly, the research work packages include the socio-economic research such as the identification of real project-planning needs and financing strategies, the assessment of design guidelines, the development of an internet-based knowledge tool on retrofit measures and case studies and a quality control-tool box to secure a good long-term performance of the building and the systems. The training and dissemination work contains blackboard information sheets, an Eco-Building e-learning module, architectural student courses and a facility managers training based on the results of the demonstration projects. The project is organised geographically by region and vertically by incorporating the owners of the public buildings, the research team of architects and engineers and the project dissemination networks.
The Berlaymont Building in Brussels: Head Quarter of the European Commission. The building was energy retrofitted beyond national requirements - an Eco-Building. |
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