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European Commission Sixth Framework Programme

 

DEMOHOUSE

The renewal of the existing building stock is about 2% per year. This shows the enormous potential that exists for improving energy savings and introduction of renewables when rehabilitating existing building areas in Europe.

The aim of the proposed project is to develop minimum standards and recommendations in connection to healthy, cost effective, energy efficient and sustainable rehabilitation and to facilitate implementation through the development of a "Decision Support Tool".

Pilot project and a reference project

In a number of participating countries, a Pilot project and a Reference project is defined. The Pilot project is the actual demonstration project, where the recommendations of the investigations and research will be implemented. The Reference project is a housing complex that has recently been renovated (or which is in the process of renovation) according to the usual local (national) standards.

The pilot project and reference projects will be compared in terms of improvement of

  • energy consumption,
  • sustainability in general and
  • socio-economic aspects.

Decision support tool

New management approaches and new financing models will be developed and demonstrated. These management approaches will assess the sustainability aspect of future maintenance measures, whilst new financing models will help to ease implementation of energy efficiency measures in renovation processes

The project started in October 2004 and will last 4 years (48 months).

 

Co-ordination Contact

If you have any questions about our project, please contact:

Henk Kaan
Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
Phone: +31 224-56 4689
Email: kaan@ecn.nl

 

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DEMOHOUSE

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