Existing measurements of equipment and building energy use paint a bleak image: real-life energy consumption often exceeds design predictions by more than 100%. As a result, reducing the gap between designed and measured energy use has become central in current efforts to increase energy efficiency. After the successful introduction of building energy performance certificates, the market is now ready for an assessment of real-life energy use that includes all energy consuming equipment in a given building. With this evolution comes the possibility of optimizing energy performance of the whole building and its energy consuming equipment. The SATO project tackles this challenge by (1) Creating a new energy self-assessment and optimization SATO platform that integrates all energy consuming equipment and devices in the building; (2) Developing and integrating into the SATO platform a self-assessment framework (SAF) that uses data analysis and machine learning to report energy performance, building behaviour, occupancy and equipment faults. This framework is aligned with the structure of the smart readiness indicator (SRI); (3) Developing a BIM-based interface for aggregated and disaggregated analysis and visualization of the assessments in the various applicable scales and defining locations and specifications of energy consuming equipment, sensors and actuators into a BIM building model; (4) Develop and demonstrate energy management services that use the SATO platform and show how the self-assessment and optimization contributes to lower energy consumption, increased energy flexibility, efficiency and user satisfaction.

BACKGROUND AND IMPACTThe raw materials present on the planet are a finite, limited and, in many cases, non-renewable resource, which is why the current consumption model is destroying many of these resources. For this reason, investment in research is necessary and, in this way, new production models should be promoted, if possible, based on the revaluation and reuse of industrial waste, encouraging the study and search for new markets for these recovered resources, considered as waste. In this way, industries are encouraged to adapt to the circular economy model with the environmental, social and economic advantages so necessary for our planet.Traditionally, the productive model that has sustained the system of growth of our society has been based on the use of the different available resources that, after their transformation within the production chain and their subsequent incorporation into the consumption chain, lost their resource condition to become waste, whose inevitable destination was the landfill. Hence the conception of a linear economy that prevails in today's productive industry.The main problems underlying this linear system are the commitment to the capacity to assimilate resources, with the consequent pollution, the accumulation of waste without use, the exploitation of renewable resources exceeding the renewal rate and the exhaustion of non-renewable resources due to their intensive consumption.The unsustainability of the current linear model imposed as the dominant pattern of economic development, requires progress towards the implementation of a growth model that optimizes the use of available resources and materials while retaining their value in the system for as long as possible, the circular economy.To this end, waste management plays a crucial role in the circular economy. The way waste is managed can lead to high recycling rates and the return of valuable materials to the economy, or on the contrary to an inefficient system in which most recyclable waste ends up in landfills or is incinerated, with potentially damaging effects on the environment and significant economic losses.Understanding that the waste generated during a production process, or due to the exhaustion of the useful life of a product is a potential resource, is one of the fundamental keys to initiating the transition process.According to the latest data provided by the EC on the circular economy, waste avoidance, eco-design, reuse and similar measures could provide EU companies with savings of 8% of annual turnover while reducing total annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2-4%.Furthermore, BIM use can change the work mode of architects and engineers. This tool is able to show a three-dimensional design from the beginning of the project and it provide information about each element that compose the project. It is a help to make easier the design, construction and the operation of a building project.The idea of this project is to add all in a single software called CircularBIM. Which is an Open Educational Resource where you can find information about: ecological construction details, techniques for the use and reuse of construction materials, reduction of waste… In addition to this, you can access to a free software to practice and obtain construction techniques that facilitate the reuse of the materials used in buildings.In conclusion, what we attempt to do is unify BIM and techniques for the revalorisation and reuse of construction materials to create an useful tool where students and professionals of AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry will be able to make aware about it as far as possible and implement in their daily work.OBJECTIVESTo contribute to overcome the situation described above, the main objectives are:• Increasing the awareness about the circular economy in construction sector.• Teaching to reduce waste generation of construction materials.• Reduce waste from the construction sector by reincorporating it into the value chain.• Provide information on the possibility of revaluation of each element.• Free access to a free software for the consultation and use of the techniques or methods of reuse of building materials, also in BIM format.• Involve professionals and students in new technologies such as BIM applications.PRODUCTS• Open Educational Resource. • Establishment of common learning outcomes on placing methods based on circular economy criteria, life cycle assessment (LCA) and relative regulations.• Developing a new interactive BIM-learning method for Circular Economy.• IT production of integrated training materials.CONSORTIUMThe consortium count on a highly qualified staff, who have already carried out other European projects successfully, due to their knowledge in the following fields, basic for this project:• Circular economy.• BIM technologies.• Develop of training materials and ITC based tools.• Experience in coordination of ERASMUS+ project.

TIMEPAC will contribute to improving existing energy certification processes, moving from a single, static certification to more holistic and dynamic approaches that consider: a) the data generated in the overall energy performance certification process, from generation to storage, to analysis and exploitation, and throughout all the building lifecycle, from design, to construction and operation b) buildings as part of a built environment, connected to energy distribution and transport networks and c) buildings as dynamic entities, continuously changing over time. TIMEPAC will demonstrate the feasibility of combining EPC databases with other data sources to make certification more effective and reliable. The new methods and tools to enhance current certification practices will be developed in five Transversal Deployment Scenarios, and validated in four demonstration scenarios across six European countries: Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Slovenia and Spain. The outcomes will be used as training materials to further educate professionals involved in certification processes throughout Europe. An online platform will provide access to training materials and courses delivered in a variety of contexts (onsite and online, blended). A TIMEPAC Academy will further develop and exploit the innovative EPC enhancement methods and tools and the training materials developed in the project.

RenoZEB aims to unlock the nZEB renovation market leveraging the gain on property value through a new systemic approach to retrofitting that will include innovative components, processes and decision making methodologies to guide all value-chain actors in the nZEB building renovation process; including integrated solutions with highest impact in the revalorization of the building. This will be achieved through: (a) Development of an innovative holistic, cost-effective and fast deep retrofitting methodology fornZEB. (b)Supporting the methodology for nZEB renovation, through ICT tools. (c) Development of a cost-effective and non-intrusive prefabricated multifunctional modular “plug and play” system for the renovation of buildings, (d) Increasing the post-retrofitting property value, through the transformation of buildings into an Active Energy. (e)Nodes through a smart control & monitoring system (f) New collaborative multi-value, multi-stakeholder methodologies and decision making process for selecting the best energy efficient renovation strategy. (g) Creation of new drivers of change for the Real Estate Industry creating fresh post-renovated property value schemes. (h) Demonstration to the Market of the Replicability of the Holistic Methodology and New Technologies through. (i) Three Virtual Demonstration sites. (j) Boosting the NZEB market through training and awareness of the value chain. RenoZEB addresses all the relevant aspects from the call, but also many of the issues expressed in the work programme. RenoZEB will provide cost-effective plug&play solutions for a large scale deep NZEB rehabilitation schemes, ensuring the integrability of all its components, methodologies, training, guidelines, and demonstration cases (real and virtual) that show and ensure the replicability of the schemes, and technical tools to appropriately address the valorization of the building stock before and after nZEB renovation schemes are applied.

Today's building permit issuance is mainly a manual, document-based process. It therefore suffers from low accuracy, low transparency and low efficiency. This leads to delays and errors in planning, design and construction. Several EU countries have developed attempts to push forward the digitalisation of building permit procedures. But none of these have led to complete adoption of digital building permit processes within municipalities. The aim of CHEK is to take away barriers for municipalities to adopt digital building permit processes by developing, connecting and aligning scalable solutions for regulatory and policy context, for open standards and interoperability (geospatial and BIM), for closing knowledge gaps through education, for renewed municipal processes and for technology deployment in order to reach TRL 7. CHEK will do this by providing an innovative kit of both methodological and technical tools to digitise building permitting and automated compliance checks on building designs and renovations in European urban areas and regions. The CHEK consortium consists of a multidisciplinary team covering GIS, BIM, municipal processes and planning, data integration and standardisation. In addition, the consortium is a multisectoral mix of research&education, AEC- and software-companies, governmental institutions, and international standardisation organisations. The multisectoral and multidisciplinary consortium is essential to align and connect all aspects of digital permit processes required to meet the highly ambitious project objectives. Several partners are already collaborating in the European Network for Digital Building Permit (EUnet4DBP). The institutions in the advisory board, representing governments and municipalities of other European countries, will further assist the development, exploitation, and upscaling of results. The best practices and developed software following the logic of OpenAPI will enable replicability in any other European country.