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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.
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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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COORDINATION CONTACT |
If you have any questions about our project, please contact:
Hans Erhorn
Fraunhofer Institute of Buildings Physics
Phone: +49-711-970 3380
E-mail: Hans Erhorn |
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