Article in REHVA Journal: https://www.rehva.eu/rehva-journal/detail/05-2019

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Under H2020 program, the European Commission (EC) is investing in projects that aim to develop IT tools that are attractive for its users and therefore leading to a long-term behavior change for energy savings. Four of such funded projects are: BENEFFICE, enCOMPASS, MOBISTYLE and UtilitEE. To ensure exploitation and further uptake of the project results, EC provides Support Services for Exploitation of Research Results (SSERR). Through this support, a workshop was held at the Sustainable Places Conference 2019 to present the business value proposition of the above mentioned H2020 projects. This paper presents the outcomes of the workshop on how to pitch the research projects. Conclusive remarks were given to provide projects partners further recommendations on how to exploit the results to key actors (such as investors and business partners).

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In this workshop, we discussed the exploitation experiences gathered in some relevant H2020 projects on deep renovation: TripleA-reno, ProGETonE, P2Endure, 4rinEU, STUNNING, and TURNkey Retrofit. Directives and practical insights that support the experimentation with exploitation strategies in EU-funded projects will be elaborated as outcome of the workshop.

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​Motivating end-users behavioural change by combined ICT based tools and modular information services on energy use, indoor environment, health and lifestyle. Keywords: Energy use, indoor environment, health, behaviour change, awareness campaign, people-centred approach.

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At present European buildings typically consume two to five times more energy than predicted at the design stage. An important cause of this performance gap is the discrepancies between the design specification and the As-Built condition. Such discrepancies are mainly due to the gaps in knowhow between design, production and construction professionals. Design is more and more contained into a virtual environment and loses touch with the physical production and construction sites. As the construction sector enters the Industry 4.0 era, Building Information Modelling (BIM) based Mixed Reality can intertwine virtual and real worlds to bridge the knowhow gaps.

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​Ninety percent of the existing building stock in Europe was built before 1990. These buildings are in urgent need for a significant improvement of energy-efficiency through renovation. State-of-the-art renovation solutions are available, but costly and lengthy renovation processes and incomprehensible technical complexities hinder the achievement of a wide impact at a European scale. This paper presents a research on Plug-and-Play (PnP) technologies supported by Building Information Modelling (BIM) to provide affordable, interchangeable and quick-installation solutions to overcome the main barriers of building deep renovation​.

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​​Afgelopen juni werd Londen opgeschrikt door een enorme brand. De Grenfell-toren vatte vlam en die brand eiste uiteindelijk tientallen levens. Zulke rampen zorgen ervoor dat brandveiligheid bij woningcorporaties hoger op de agenda komt te staan, maar hoe brandveilig is het bezit eigenlijk? Een gesprek met Senior Adviseur Menno van den Broeke van DEMO Consultants: “Het meenemen van brandveiligheid in het beleid is cruciaal.”​ 

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https://www.corporatiegids.nl/nl/nieuws/demo_consultants_brandveiligheid_moet_in_de_genen_van_de_corporaties_zitten-3521

Energy efficiency in buildings is one of the main goals of many governmental policies due to their high impact on the carbon dioxide emissions in Europe. One of these targets is to reduce the energy consumption in healthcare buildings, which are known to be among the most energy-demanding building types. Although design decisions made at early design phases have a significant impact on the energy performance of the realized buildings, only a small portion of possible early designs is analyzed, which does not ensure an optimal building design. We propose an automated early design support workflow, accompanied by a set of tools, for achieving nearly zero emission healthcare buildings. It is intended to be used by decision makers during the early design phase. It starts with the user-defined brief and the design rules, which are the input for the Early Design Configurator (EDC). The EDC generates multiple design alternatives following an evolutionary algorithm while trying to satisfy user requirements and geometric constraints. The generated alternatives are then validated by means of an Early Design Validator (EDV), and then, early energy and cost assessments are made using two early assessment tools. A user-friendly dashboard is used to guide the user and to illustrate the workflow results, whereas the chosen alternative at the end of the workflow is considered as the starting point for the next design phases. Our proposal has been implemented using Building Information Models (BIM) and validated by means of a case study on a healthcare building and several real demonstrations from different countries in the context of the European project STREAMER​.​

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​​Inzetten van BIM modellen voor beheer en onderhoud is een 'buzzing' onderwerp in de corporatiewereld. Maar wat heeft BIM nu concreet te bieden en hoe zet je als corporatie de eerste stappen?

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​​DEMO is een van de auteurs van de nieuwe Jellema deel 13, zie hoofdstuk 7 Vastgoedinformatiemanagement. ​

Door NeVaP aanbevolen voor de vastgoed- en onderhoudsmanager.​ Lees meer.

​​​​​In dit artikel komt Rizal Sebastian (Directeur Onderzoek bij DEMO) aan het woord over de baanbrekende innovaties uit onze EU projecten Inception en Insiter. Door games zoals Pokemon heeft een breed publiek kennis gemaakt met Augmented Reality. De onderzoekers uit Inception en Insiter kijken verder dan de entertainment-industrie en zien hoe de Augmented Reality technologie kan worden ingezet om ons dagelijks leven te verbeteren.

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The benefits of prefab retrofitting solutions for NET Zero Energy buildings (such as prefab components for building envelopes, windows, equipment) are at risk because of bad implementation during the construction processes. As a result, the energy-efficiency potential as designed will not be realised. The European Horizon 2020 research project INSITER develops a quality assurance method that closes the performance gap between design and construction. This paper reports on the first phase of such a method, being a desk research to identify the most frequent construction errors, state-of-the-art diagnostic instruments to detect the errors and suitable standards for performance control.​

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​​​​Een goed vastgoedinformatiesysteem is cruciaal voor assetmanagement. Waar moet je op letten bij het aanschaffen daarvan? André van Delft van DEMO Consultants geeft uitleg.

Lees het hele artikel in RPS Magazine Respons, Jaargang 4​, pag. 27-28

​​Hoe kan ketensamenwerking zorgen voor een toename in het aanbrengen van klimaatadaptaties aan woningen van woningcorporaties in Nederland? Promovendus Martin Roders gaf op 18 juni aan de TU Delft een toelichting op zijn dissertatie Partnering for climate change adaptations by Dutch housing associations. Opmerkelijk genoeg leidt ketensamenwerking niet automatisch tot meer innovatie en klimaatadaptie, is één van de conclusies.​

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​​​​​Presentation about EU project INSITER - CITC-VIII (Eighth International Conference on Construction), Thessaloniki, Greece​​

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In this paper is shown the European research project STREAMER in the topic “Optimised design methodologies for energy efficient buildings integrated in the neighborhood energy systems”. The Streamer research project aims at use and development of a semantic approach to design starting from the combination of BIM and GIS systems. A case study in Careggi hospital, Florence (Italy) is shown, together with the expected results.

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​​Wetenschappelijk artikel EU project STREAMER in HPH (Hospital and Public Health, een toonaangevend tijdschrijft in de zorgsector) met betrekking tot energie efficiëntie in ziekenhuizen.

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The subject of energy-efficient buildings (EeB) is among the most urgent research priorities in the European Union (EU). In order to achieve the broadest impact, innovative approaches to EeB need to resolve challenges at the neighbourhood level, instead of only focusing on improvements of individual buildings. For this purpose, the design phase of new building projects as well as building retrofitting projects is the crucial moment for integrating multi-scale EeB solutions. 

In EeB design process, clients, architects, technical designers, contractors, and end-users altogether need new methods and tools for designing energy-efficiency buildings integrated in their neighbourhoods. Since the scope of designing covers multiple dimensions, the new design methodology relies on the inter-operability between Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS). Design for EeB optimisation needs to put attention on the inter-connections between the architectural systems and the MEP/HVAC systems, as well as on the relation of Product Lifecycle Modelling (PLM), Building Management Systems (BMS), BIM and GIS. 

This paper is descriptive and it presents an actual EU FP7 large-scale collaborative research project titled STREAMER. The research on the inter-operability between BIM and GIS for holistic design of energy-efficient buildings in neighbourhood scale is supported by real case studies of mixed-use healthcare districts. The new design methodology encompasses all scales and all lifecycle phases of the built environment, as well as the whole lifecycle of the information models that comprises: Building Information Model (BIM), Building Assembly Model (BAM), Building Energy Model (BEM), and Building Operation Optimisation Model (BOOM).​

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