Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Demo-BLog (Development and Demonstration of Digital Building Logbooks)
Reporting period: 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Every building has a story. Buildings in the EU will now tell their story through digital building logbooks (DBLs). Demo-BLog brings together: (i) 5 different DBLs with a total of 4.5 million registered units and a wide variety of target groups (homeowners, municipalities, building professionals and architects) offering scale and diversity; (ii) 4 diverse functionalities addressing key societal challenges, ranging from ‘quick wins’ (renovation and advice and (community driven) decarbonisation pathway) to complex industrial transaction objectives (circularity); (iii) partners, frontrunners in R&D, policymaking and market implementation in highly visible platforms over the last 5 years and (iv) substantial opportunities to build and leverage parallel projects and activities focussed on evolving/scaling the participating building logbooks. The DBLs demonstrated in this project have the potential to eventually reflect the whole lifecycle with a capacity for unlimited data access, input and output, and data export. They are also capable of embracing future technological developments, such as widespread use of BIM, IoT, digital twins and blockchain. Demo-BLog has considerable potential to optimise the use of resources and waste, performance prediction, visual analytics and energy management contributing to the overall goal of “making Europe the first digitally led circular, climate neutral and sustainable economy”.
In the first 12 months the project developed as planned. At the kick-off in January in Delft the consortium members discussed and confirmed the structure and approach of the project. Since then, all the WP’s started off with online meetings to get most of the tasks of the ground. In this first 12 most emphasis was on the project management documents in WP6, for the State of Play report in WP3, and in WP4 & WP5 for the C&D and Exploitation strategy nutshell. The actions in WP3 involved most of the consortium partners. In WP1 actions on defining SoP of existing functionalities and further requirements towards linking to WP2 and WP3 cases were performed. The overall project progress is being discussed and monitored by monthly on-line meetings with the WP-leaders.
• WP1: Identification of stakeholders, barriers and drivers, as well as their needs and identification of existing tools across different functionalities.
• WP2: Identification of concrete application cases in the context of the different participating countries (e.g. future interaction between building logbooks and upcoming legislation in Germany)
• WP3: The studies conducted for the state of play report provided an indication to how future experiments should be better designed to improve both the research methodology and findings. Flaws and gaps in the analyses were identified and addressed in the report for all members of the consortium as reference to all future studies. The state of play report can also be perceived as the preliminary encyclopaedia to the five DBLs at study for all members of the consortium for a better understanding of the tools.
• WP4: T4.2 will participate to make progress beyond the SotA on DBL governance model. Indeed, the studies aim to design and describe organizational model concepts at both EU and Member State levels. These concepts will address policy and market barriers, specifically related to the rollout of digital meters and access to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data. The goal is to establish a "Level Playing Field" by creating a balanced organizational model and defining the division of labor between public and private actors in terms of data handling, storage, and various functionalities/services within the Database of Building Logbooks (DBL) ecosystem. These results are expected to include the designed organizational model concepts, a description of the identified policy and market barriers, an assessment of user experience and demonstrated benefits of various functionalities, an impact assessment of logbook implementation, and the identification of logbook initiatives with replication potential.
• WP2: Identification of concrete application cases in the context of the different participating countries (e.g. future interaction between building logbooks and upcoming legislation in Germany)
• WP3: The studies conducted for the state of play report provided an indication to how future experiments should be better designed to improve both the research methodology and findings. Flaws and gaps in the analyses were identified and addressed in the report for all members of the consortium as reference to all future studies. The state of play report can also be perceived as the preliminary encyclopaedia to the five DBLs at study for all members of the consortium for a better understanding of the tools.
• WP4: T4.2 will participate to make progress beyond the SotA on DBL governance model. Indeed, the studies aim to design and describe organizational model concepts at both EU and Member State levels. These concepts will address policy and market barriers, specifically related to the rollout of digital meters and access to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data. The goal is to establish a "Level Playing Field" by creating a balanced organizational model and defining the division of labor between public and private actors in terms of data handling, storage, and various functionalities/services within the Database of Building Logbooks (DBL) ecosystem. These results are expected to include the designed organizational model concepts, a description of the identified policy and market barriers, an assessment of user experience and demonstrated benefits of various functionalities, an impact assessment of logbook implementation, and the identification of logbook initiatives with replication potential.