Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EUB SuperHub (European Building Sustainability performance and energy certification Hub)
Berichtszeitraum: 2021-06-01 bis 2022-11-30
EUB SuperHub project will tie the „distributed” systems, assessment schemes and certifications spread across MSs, based on common criteria (e.g. Level(s), SRIs, EVCS) through a one-stop shop platform. The EuB SuperHub platform will store, geo reference, display and organise the local public databases of Energy Performance Certificates, local sustainability and SRI ratings into a common digital E-passport. The passports will be connected to a virtual matchmaking market place, creating the conditions for demand driven market for energy, sustainable and smart buildings. The EUB SuperHub E-passport will be supported by a digital building logbook and will utilize latest cutting edge assessment techniques and criteria - smart readiness, materials logbook for circular economy, LCC, IAQ etc. - to boost the establishment of the transparency, reliability, comparable good quality of certifications.
Next to this activity, the stakeholders’ needs and interests were gathered in a coordinated manner (workshops, interviews, surveys). Collected expert opinions supported that EPCs do not give the end user a clear view about the state of the building envelope, technical system and their possible future maintenance requirement. Actions needed on transparency, reliability and usability of EPC scores and the synchronization of assessment values across the EU. Therefore, a next step was to intensively study the stakeholders’ needs and derive user case definitions for the design of the online platform and to understand development needs in terms of data sourcing, data processing and management, user functions.
For harmonization purposes, the action was to extensively review the past and ongoing projects and initiatives for KPIs and for the most useful indicators concerning the smartness of the buildings/districts. Ultimately, this work continues in the development of the EUB SuperHub "framework" where transnational indicators and a framework for an e-passport will be conceptualized. Consequently the consortium will be able to deliver a system (i.e. a methodology and platform) which can be deployed, tested and used across the EU Member States to respond to the demand towards transparency, quality and reliability of future – next gen. – assessment and certification schemes.
The stakeholders’ interaction and market actor studies of the project has the purpose of understanding the roles, drivers, etc. that lead to a better acceptance of the next generation of EPCs and certification schemes.
Concerning the key performance indicators the crucial end-result obtained in the project is an accurate list of potential indicators for evaluating the energy performance, sustainability and smartness of buildings in the next generation of Energy Performance Certificates. The indicators have been selected through a deep analysis of the most relevant existing transnational frameworks of sustainability indicators and in relation to the recommendations expressed in the “Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the energy performance of buildings (recast)” issued in December 2021.
Moreover a major objective was first to outline the functions and features of the EUB SuperHub platform main modules: E-passport cockpit (E-cockpit), Planning and Verification Tool (PVT) module, the Virtual Marketplace (VM) and the E-training module. The EUB SuperHub modules are intended to work together as interlocking system presenting an interactive cloud data hub for building energy and sustainability performance certificates. The team used the knowledge gained from the previous task(s) and complemented it with a number of online and in person workshops to refine the selection of the platform functions. The description of each function of the EUB SuperHub platform is described in a report in detail.