Demonstrating integrated technology solutions for buildings with performance guarantees (Built4People)

The proposal should:

• Design and demonstrate innovative integrated technology solutions based on state-of-the-art components (envelope, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, cooling, automation and control, renewable energy, etc.) solutions for cost-effective buildings’ overall performance enhancement with performance guarantees.
• Investigate the viability of performance-based business models combining those technology solutions with attractive and innovative contractual frameworks for performance guarantees and testing them with the relevant market players (e.g. energy suppliers, product manufacturer, technology/service providers).
• Develop business models that suit new industrialised design and production methods, and include enhanced energy and resource (based on suitable Level(s) indicators) performance guarantees with longer commissioning and condition-based maintenance to replace maintenance contracts.
• Develop performance contracts that work with industrialised solutions for the renovations in the residential sector, valorising energy and environmental performance, resource and energy efficiency, energy flexibility (through demand response) and comfort (Comfort Performance Contracts) for all building elements (e.g. building envelope, equipment & systems, energy storage).
• Build, where possible, on existing business approaches that have shown effectiveness for renovation (e.g. one-stop-shops, ESCOs).
• Ensure that those business models make use of digital tools (e.g. energy management systems, block chain, digital logbooks) to increase data availability for measurement and verification and therefore increase the traceability of performance (e.g. energy savings, energy generation, GHG emissions, location of components and substances in the buildings) and to ease the implementation of performance-based contracts.

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on ‘People-centric, Sustainable Built Environment’ (Built4People).