Objective
Description of the project objectives:
The cluster consists of 4 projects, which are similar from the point of view of the content. The fundamental characteristic of the cluster lies in the bundling together of industrial, scientific and communal interests and know-how, and in the European-wide exchange of long lasting technology, building and restoration ideas. The aim is to stimulate the innovative planning of sustainable housing and housing areas in the participating countries by means of an international competitions, training and study visits. Special emphasis will be put on the use of renewable energy (active and passive), a low overall primary energy use and innovative technologies and the flexibility of the energy systems. The transfer of knowledge on innovative building techniques and renewable heat and power supply will take place through workshops, conferences, exhibitions, publications, networking, internet and other means, between the participating countries and the rest of the European Union.
Description of the work:
InSolPlan:
The competition is an anonymous competition for architects, energy engineers and investors. The aim is the selection of investor teams, which would realise building of housing areas of 50 to several hundred dwellings. Special emphasis is put on an integral planning approach, in which new methods of urban planning using solar energy and other RES together with delicate software are tested.
There are several innovative aspects to this project:
- Competitors will have to form a team of architects with (solar) engineers and possibly investors throughout the planning and building process. Experience has shown that such a syndicate yields the best results at lowest costs;
- An important criterion will be a low overall primary energy content, including not only energy consumption during use but also during building and settlement;
- The designs should be flexible to cater for future technological advances, eventually leading to 100% renewable energy communities;
- The project will lead to innovative building projects through an innovative building process. The fact that the "syndicate approach" leads to a technical and financial optimum will be stressed in the dissemination activities, convincing governments to prescribe this approach in competitions and convincing building parties to use it as an innovative and cost-effective approach. The "flexergy" principle is an important prerequisite for an optimal application of renewable energies.
Much emphasis is put on dissemination to ensure a transfer of the innovative character of the project to a wider public. Furthermore, the involvement of two ministries and a province guarantee the incorporation of the results of this project in national or regional stimulation programmes.
Decision of the competition:
The Jury meeting took place in Brussels on the 28th of February and 1st of March 2002. The results are to be shown on the internet: http://www.eu-competition.org/solar/eng/results.htm.
European competition for bioclimatic urban redevelopment.
Seven Cities take part in the competition: Kaiserslautern (D), Plauen (D), Gödöllö (HU), Kapfenberg/Styria (A), Weiz/Styria, Glauchau (D), Zeithain (D). The participants of the competitions have to propose refurbishment solutions for the selected city locations that can be economically supplemented and fully maintained by renewable energy technologies.
The action will run in 3 phases:
1) National organised competitions in 7 European towns; European-wide call for participation; promoting the results by exhibitions, by an internet virtual exhibition catalogue, by workshops as well as by co-operation of different user groups in the planning and implementation process;
2) An international competition of the winners of the 7 national competitions and broad dissemination of the award winning projects via internet, TV, radio, press agencies, newspapers, professional journals, Energie-Cités, ecological unions, communities and federations of industry and trade;
3) Commencement of the refurbishment projects in the 7 communities widely advertising on the basis of the award winning projects, accompanied by a press campaign for broad diffusion of the award winning renewable energy ideas and the best-practice restructuring ideas.
The action will promote further innovation and spin-off in this field: Cross-border and interdisciplinary networks and co-operation for bioclimatic restructuring will be formed, renewable energy use will be stimulated and related skills will be taken on board at the craft worker level. The consortium - the District Government Board Chemnitz, the 7 towns and the individual participants (planners, SME, scientists, citizens) - benefits, especially because of the international transfer of knowledge and international co-operations.
Campaign For Take-Off" / 100 communities.
In their white paper on renewable energies the European Commission provided that in the year 2010 renewable energies will yield a share of 12% of the whole energy supply required in Europe. In order to speed up the putting into action, the "Campaign For Take-Off" (short: CTO, 1999-2003) was launched in 1999.
One important contribution of the campaign is the "100-communities programme". This programme aims at engaging single pioneer cities, communities, regions, and islands to strive for a 100 percent energy supply, produced out of renewable energy, for an area to be defined.
On February 2002 the 7 communities involved in this bioclimatic competition have become official "pioneer communities" of "100 communities".
On April 2002 the final jury setting took place in the City of Plauen. The decision of the jury:
three "1st prizes" ( 25.000 each); three "2nd prizes" ( 15.000 each); one recommendation.
The results are presented on the internet: http://www.eu-competition.org/eu/de/2-Stufe.htm
RENEASE - Renewable energy against exclusion.
The aim of the project is to investigate RES technologies appropriate to social housing, to train future users and community on RES design and construction principles, and to work with residents, architects and consultants in order to incorporate suitable RES options into a design and specification document. The outcome will be identification of the financial resources and construction concept for a new settlement taking into account the sustainable development and the social issues.
The project will be realised by:
- making a research based on Irish and European Good practise;
- launching a training programme on RES options aimed at prospective residents and community;
- organising local study visits, seminar and discussions to architects, housing associations, energy specialists, prospective users and likely funders;
- publishing a tender document for competition for settlement planning
ALTENER-Schools
The aim of the project is to implement and promote solar applications in public buildings in Lombardia Region. Three schools will act as reference case examples. They will be refurbished to use both passive and active solar thermal technologies for producing space air heating and sanitary hot water. These measures will be integrated with RES measures aiming to achieve 35% contribution from RES in the total energy consumption. These 3 schools will act as a reference case guiding the future refurbishment of other schools in the region.
The project consists of seven phases:
1) Selection of the refurbished schools;
2) Definition of the design and technical specifications including the analysis of the thermal behaviour of the building;
3) Launching a call for tenders to assign the construction work and to purchase the materials;
4) Selection of the offers and contract awards, construction work and verification of the results;
5) Drawing up of a financial plan for solar passive and active refurbishment of the remaining schools;
6) Training of operators by giving the responsible of the maintenance of the educational buildings the knowledge to maintain and operate the RES technologies integrated in the buildings;
7) Dissemination activities, which include a European workshop addressed to architects and key decision-makers managing public buildings, a special edition of the Punti Energia newsletter and articles in FEDARENE bulletin.
The work will be realised in collaboration with European actors with experience on solar refurbishment of public buildings.
The project results innovative plans for housing and housing areas, aiming at rational use of energy and a maximum amount of renewable energy, in some cases up to 100%, to be generated within the buildings and the housing areas in a cost-effective way. The results will replicable in similar projects.
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Participants (26)
1000 Brussel
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20145 Milano
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Fermoy
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BALLERUP
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CO CORK
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50933 Köln
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Utrecht
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08363 Glauchau
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001619 Zeithain
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2100 Gödöllö
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22559 Hamburg
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09126 Chemnitz
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8232 ZX Lelystadt
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85622 FELDKIRCHEN
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40217 Dusseldorf
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D12 8BP Belfast
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8232 PH LELYSTAD
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20125 Milano
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1060 Brussels
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4000 Roskilde
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7034 Trondheim
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45699 Herten
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67653 Kaiserslautern
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08523 Plauen
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8160 Weiz
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8605 Kapfenberg
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