NGUI - Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering The overall goal of this project is to examine the effectiveness of innovative building structural elements and systems, regarding their structural, environmental…
Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands have the most advanced digital economies in the EU followed by Luxembourg, Belgium, the UK and Ireland. Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Italy have the lowest…
Having transformed Istanbul into a 'city brand', Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) has signed a cooperation agreement for a smart city consultancy project with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC). Under the umbrella of the…
Amazon.com is putting the idle rooftops of a significant portion of its massive warehouses to work — by installing solar panels. The e-commerce giant says it will place solar power-generating…
PERFORMER latest achievements, as well as other useful resources and links will be shared in this section to favour scientific, industrial and public awareness. PERFORMER public deliverables PERFORMER newsletters PERFORMER…
The PERFORMER solution can be utilised in a range of buildings to help manage and optimise energy usage. However, buildings are rarely, if ever, exactly the same and hence deployment…
The MAS²TERING Community consists of selected groups or individuals that contribute either directly or through similar topics surrounding prosumer community technologies, listed as follows: ADVISORY GROUP – a group of smart…
The STREAMER consists of 19 partners: 12 industrial partners (7 large companies + 5 SMEs + 1 non-profit private hospital), 4 research organisations, and 3 public bodies (hospital institutions). The STREAMER…
Here is some background information about the state-of-the-art that forms the starting point for the research within STREAMER, whose results will be validated in the 4 real projects involving the Implementers Communities.…
The MAS²TERING project can be sumarized as: Impact Methodology Pillar 1 – Interoperability Pillar 2 – Security and Reliability Pillar 3 – Holonic Architecture & Distributed Optimization Pillar 4 –…
The PVSITES project is addressing the barriers and challenges to large scale deployment of building integrated solar PV in Europe.In towns and cities around the world there is a whole…
National Grid’s new demand response programme claims to help business customers save thousands of dollars in electricity.US electricity and natural gas delivery company National Grid has put into place the…
The agreement to reform the emissions trading system comes after almost two years’ of discussions but just two weeks after the European parliament voted in favour of a new directive.…
"A comprehensive ontologies-based framework to support retrofitting design of energy-efficient districts" Authored by: G. Costa & Á. Sicilia - ARC, La Salle Engineering and Architecture, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain G.N.…
What is the OptEEmAL Platform? The project aims to provide stakeholders with a web-based Platform for District Energy-Efficient Retrofitting Design, which will support integrated design methodologies for the systemic delivery…
In this figure the AS-IS and TO-BE processes of HOLISTEEC are shown. The use of simulation tools in traditional processes (i.e. AS-IS process) is mainly related to the design phases,…
HOLISTEEC has confirmed their collaboration with SP2017, and is reaching out to fellow SP contributors (Design4Energy, eeEmbedded, and STREAMER) to plan the works. HOLISTEEC has participated with previous SP events as…
In the framework of the project, the first step towards the optimization of the overall building design process has corresponded to the definition of a "full life-cycle aware" novel design…
Validation process is a strategic step to guide the implementation and evaluation of a new methodology. The usefulness of a methodology could be assessed referring both to its effectiveness and…
InterFlex aims to deploy smart grid technologies at industrial scale in five countries. As the custodians of the distribution system, the distribution system operators (DSOs) are impacted more than any…
