2022-2025

ARV is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project part of the EU Green Deal goal to build and renovate in an energy and resource efficient way. The project aims to demonstrate and validate attractive, resilient, and affordable solutions for of Climate Positive Circular Communities (CPCC) that will significantly speed up the deep energy renovations and the deployment of energy and climate measures in the construction and energy industries.

2020-2024

The aim of Annex 83 is developing an in-depth definition of PED and the technologies, planning tools and planning and the decision-making process related to positive energy districts. Experience and data to be used in the Annex will be gained from demonstration cases.

2017-2024

The ZEN Research Centre conducts research on zero emission neighbourhoods (ZEN) in smart cities. Their goal is to develop solutions for future buildings and neighbourhoods with no greenhouse gas emissions, and thereby contribute to a low carbon society. The centre consists of a consortium of 33 partners covering the entire value chain: research institutes, local and regional governments, property owners, developers, consultants and architects, ICT companies, contractors, energy companies, manufacturers of materials and products and governmental organisations. Together, we develop nine pilot projects where we test new solutions and technologies for reducing carbon emissions in neighbourhoods.

2020 - 2024

EXCESS merges technical concepts for Positive Energy Buildings with new opportunities for the production of renewable energy and self-consumption, as provided by the EU Clean Energy Package. In addition to driving forward the development of building materials to enable PEBs in diverse climatic conditions, a key focus of EXCESS lies on facilitating the integration of building technologies. In this context project partners explore [1] challenges and opportunities associated with upgrading single technologies within existing building systems; [2] enabling factors for local energy trading and [3] new services to grid operators or utilities. By facilitating technological integration, lifetime costs of PEBs can be effectively reduced, making them affordable to larger portions of the society. The project’s ambitions are reflected in the demonstration cases in Europe’s four main climate zones

2020 - 2024

The Cultural-E goal is going a step beyond Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEBs) towards the future of Plus Energy Buildings (PEBs). The team is approaching this topic by looking at climate and cultural differences in the use of residential buildings around Europe. By the end of the five years the project will have built four new Plus Energy Buildings in France, Germany, Italy and Norway. Cultural-E will also produce design tools, smart technologies, methodologies and policy recommendations, freely available for all stakeholders along the value chain.