This deliverable aims to establish a unified and comprehensive approach to assess buildings’ energy performance and sustainability at individual and complex levels. The deliverable’s scope aims to revolutionize the evaluation of energy performance and sustainability of buildings by creating an integrated approach that includes SRIs, energy and non-energy aspects, LCA, and technical audits. Once integrated into the SmartLivingEPC rating procedure, this comprehensive assessment scheme will pave the way toward more energy-efficient and environmentally responsible European buildings.
SRI analysis and integration into SmartLivingEPC focuses on examining innovative technologies in buildings and analyzing SRIs to integrate them into the energy certification methodology of buildings. The first step involves conducting a detailed overview of the current status of SRIs, including their definition and methodologies. The examination will encompass the capacity of buildings to adapt their operation to occupants’ needs, energy efficiency, and overall performance based on SRI schemes. SRIs will be classified according to the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast, categorizing aspects like heating, cooling, lighting, and more. The task also entails linking SRI certifications with EPC data, enabling the extraction of SRI information from intelligent Building Information Modeling (BIM) documents, thus facilitating the integration of SRI results into the new SmartLivingEPCs.
Energy and non-energy resources analysis and integration into SmartLivingEPC seeks to incorporate both energy performance and non-energy aspects into the classification of buildings. Building upon the technical documentation derived from the EN52000 standards series and other energy-related standards, this task aims to develop an integrated asset-based methodology for assessing building energy performance. The procedures developed will encompass the building’s life cycle, integrate energy-related performance data, and data concerning non-energy resource consumption, such as water, noise, and acoustic quality issues. The assessment will be conducted in the BIM environment, leading to the development of necessary Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to support the process. The expected outcome is a comprehensive energy and non-energy asset assessment of buildings, which will be further integrated into the SmartLivingEPC rating scheme.
Environmental life-cycle assessment and integration into SmartLivingEPC is to analyze the environmental life-cycle assessment and sustainability aspects of buildings to include sustainability ratings in the SmartLivingEPC rating procedure. Building and construction sustainability tools and technical standards, including the Level(s) scheme, will be employed to achieve this. The task will primarily focus on defining specific sustainability indicators for quantifying the environmental impact of buildings during their design and construction stages, utilizing a cradle-to-gate rationale. BIM documents will be utilized for the environmental assessment of buildings, necessitating the development of appropriate APIs to extract relevant building information from the IFC documents. The deliverable’s outcome will consist of defined indicators and calculation processes, enabling the integration of life cycle performance aspects into the SmartLivingEPC calculation procedures.
Technical audits and inspections integration into SmartLivingEPC aims to integrate the findings from technical audits and inspections into the EPCs. It acknowledges the significance of up-to-date data on building systems’ performance and its relevance to the energy rating process. By analyzing the input and outcomes of technical audits for building systems, such as the EN 15378, EN 16798, EN 16946, and EN 16947 standards series, this task seeks to identify relevant findings that can be utilized for energy classification. The outcome will be the development of necessary procedures and methodologies to incorporate the periodic audit findings of building systems into the process of calculating the asset energy class of the building.
SmartLivingEPC – Asset methodology assessment in building level v2