Related EU initiatives

CHRONICLE aims to deliver a set of digital tools to support sustainable design, construction, and renovation, as well as investment decision-making for buildings, taking a life-cycle approach to building performance assessment. The aim is to improve the performance of buildings towards energy efficiency, comfort, and improved well-being of residents.

The project takes a human-centric approach to the digitalization of buildings whereby end-users, residents, and professionals working in the building sector alike, are at the center of the development of the tools and services.

CHRONICLE’s building performance assessment framework and toolset will be demonstrated and validated in five pilot sites spanning the geographic diversity of Europe, namely in Spain, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, and Switzerland.

COLLECTiEF is a 4-year project funded by the European Union. It aims to implement an interoperable and scalable energy management system to smart up buildings and their legacy equipment on a large scale. Enhancing the energy flexibility on both supply and demand sides can boost the movement towards sustainable and resilient urban energy solutions, especially in high-energy dense and heterogeneous urban areas. The project responds to this urgent need to review existing buildings’ energy strategy.

What makes them unique is the development of software and hardware packages for a Collective Intelligence-based demand-side management (CI-DSM) that increases data security, energy flexibility, and climate resilience of existing buildings while reducing installation cost, data transfer, and computational power.

Their work contributes to the energy and climate goals set by the Paris Agreement and the "Clean Energy for All European" package, including the Communication "Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation" (COM (2016) 736) and the SET-Plan priorities.

DigiBUILD aligns with the European Strategy for data, contributing significantly to the establishment of an Energy Efficient Building Data Space. The project adopts co-creation methodologies in line with the European Bauhaus initiative to foster collaborative and innovative approaches.

By employing these methodologies, the initiative aims to gather and manage data in a manner that prioritizes relevance and adaptability, avoiding unnecessary mobilization of extensive datasets. This approach ensures a more focused utilization of essential data, enabling more robust, improved, and consistent monitoring of building stock energy performance.

RECONSTRUCT aims to develop circular, eco-friendly, and innovative solutions to reduce emissions from the construction industry.

How? By sourcing local alternatives to conventional steel and cement, applying reclaimed components and implementing design for disassembly and reuse.

The Agile and Flexible Construction Materials Standardization for Boosting the Twin Transition (AFCOS) project aims to set up recommendations, for more agile standardization processes for construction materials based on pre-normative research performed horizontally in a collaborative fashion between key ecosystem players – research, standardization and industrial actors from four member states – Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and Belgium.

AFCOS focus on identified standardization urgencies within the industrial ecosystem of construction and more specifically on standards supporting low carbon cement. Building on a set of activities combining research work with stakeholder engagement, educational activities and ambitious exploitation initiatives, AFCOS produce roadmaps for pre-standardization, educational and training courses, strategy for education and skills development in the field of standardization of new building materials and exploitation models for the benefit of the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), national standardization bodies, educational institutions and industry.

AFCOS brings together 7 full and 7 associated partners from 9 EU countries encompassing research capacity, standardization expertise and industry representation and ecosystem actors, ensuring EU coverage and exploitability of the project results to a high level.

The focus of the project REHOUSE is to increase in the scope and productivity of the renovation process, the improvement of comfort and satisfaction of the building inhabitants and users, and the increased use of integrated solutions for the decentralized generation of renewable energy.

Over the course of 4 years the project will develop 8 innovative and holistic solutions for efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable renovation processes. The solutions will be deployed across 4 demo sites in Greece, Italy, France, and Hungary respectively.

This will include detailed designs, pilot set-up and demonstrations to validate the solutions. If proven successful, the renovation solutions can be introduced to the market, implemented on a large scale, and eventually contribute to speeding up the current renovation rate.