Objective
Objectives
The program aims to develop retrofitting strategies, tools and design guidelines in order to promote successful, cost
effective implementation of passive solar and energy efficiency measures to offices. These are addressed through the following objectives:
1) To combine scientific and technical knowledge with best
practice architecture and energy engineering to prepare global retrofitting strategies for office buildings involving the use of passive solar and energy efficiency technologies.
2) To develop performance criteria, tools and rating
methodologies to help designers integrate recent research
results on passive and energy efficiency technologies.
3) To contribute through monitoring actions towards a better knowledge of the specific energy consumption characteristics and a more complete understanding of the qualitative problems of the offices in Europe.
4) To integrate all the results into a design and assessment methodology for retrofitting office buildings in Europe.
Technical Approach
The project is based on specific monitoring actions in order to collect the necessary data to evaluate the existing situation in office buildings. Based on various criteria, ten office
buildings will be selected for which detailed architectural and engineering retrofitting studies will be prepared and
quantified. The collected data as well as the overall analysis will permit the development of design guidelines, performance criteria and methodologies for best practice giving credit for renewable energy sources incorporated into office buildings
presented in the form of a Handbook. The specific analysis of the results will permit the development of a rating methodology for office buildings based on the energy performance of the
building, the environmental impact and CO2 production, and the indoor thermal and visual comfort. Finally, an Atlas on the
energy potential of the various retrofitting scenarios for
office buildings will be prepared.
Expected Achievements and Exploitation
The final products of the OFFICE project are the
following:
1. Ten case studies of high quality examples of representative retrofit office buildings in various part of Europe.
2. A rating methodology classifying office buildings according to their energy consumption, CO2 production and indoor thermal and visual parameters.
3. Design guidelines, performance criteria and methodologies for best practice giving credit for renewable energy sources incorporated into office buildings. The guidelines will be
presented under the form of a Handbook.
4. An Atlas describing the potential for energy conservation of selected retrofitting scenarios for defined types of office buildings located in North European coastal, Mid European
coastal, Continental and Southern Mediterranean climatic zones of Europe.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy
- engineering and technology environmental engineering ecosystem-based management climatic change mitigation
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic zones
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Coordinator
15784 ZOGRAPHOS, ATHENS
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