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Technical Article - The BIM-P, a digital data environment to support the building renovation activities

One of the greatest challenges in construction is how to effectively share information between all stakeholders during the entire lifetime of the building. The amount of data generated by a building asset can be significant, and...
The INFINITE project has developed a BIM Platform (BIM-P) which is a digital data environment and asset information management, supporting stakeholders to efficiently collaborate throughout the whole life cycle of buildings. The...
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Technical Article - The digital era in building energy performance: the Auto-DAN project

The energy performance of buildings (both residential and non-residential) is crucial for the ever-increasing demands, costs of the energy market, and its balance, especially during the all-encompassing and (reality-driven) demanded transition to...
The accurate measurement and self-assessment of the actual energy performance of new or existing, small and medium-sized buildings, including all the products consuming energy within them, is the basic goal of the digital...
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Technical Article - The BIM-P, a digital data environment to support the building renovation activities

One of the greatest challenges in construction is how to effectively share information between all stakeholders during the entire lifetime of the building. The amount of data generated by a building asset can be significant, and...
The INFINITE project has developed a BIM Platform (BIM-P) which is a digital data environment and asset information management, supporting stakeholders to efficiently collaborate throughout the whole life cycle of buildings. The platform...
Noticias

Technical Article - The digital era in building energy performance: the Auto-DAN project

The energy performance of buildings (both residential and non-residential) is crucial for the ever-increasing demands, costs of the energy market, and its balance, especially during the all-encompassing and (reality-driven) demanded...
The accurate measurement and self-assessment of the actual energy performance of new or existing, small and medium-sized buildings, including all the products consuming energy within them, is the basic goal of the digital solution...
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Educate consumers to increase the selling of heat pumps

Heating and cooling in households is responsible for 52% of final energy demand in Europe. Hence, EU energy policies (e.g. REPowerEU) are reiforcing the need to increase the selling and implementation of heat pumps to reduce energy...
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How to adapt the built environment to a changing climate

The World Green Building Council has published a guide for industry to support the urgent need for energy transition of the built environment.   Adaptation is needed at different urban scales. In fact, the guide offers practical steps that...
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Detached single family house in Barcelona

The main objective of this project was to build a house with high levels of energy efficiency with a modern style and certified Passivhaus Plus standard. The facades have been designed to achieve the maximum lightning without creating...
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The role of energy efficiency auctions in 8 different countries

ENSMOV project has published a policy brief on the role of energy efficiency auctions by taking as example 8 countries´ experiences. Energy efficiency auctions are not a common part of energy efficiency framework compared to subsidy...
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Technical Article - Filling the Gap in automated measurement and verification for Energy Efficiency: SENSEI’s eensight tool

Measurement and verification (M&V) of energy savings is fundamentally an impact assessment problem, where the goal is to estimate the counterfactual energy consumption, i.e., what would the energy consumption of a building have been...
Automated measurement and verification (M&V) is a growing field of research and practice, aiming to produce tools that combine real-time data and predictive modelling methods to help understand a building’s energy consumption and...
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Exploring the Potential of the Metaverse for Utilities

With the growth of artificial intelligence technologies, new innovations are continuously emerging and surprising us. Recently, ChatGPT, an intelligent language and text generation AI, has raised questions about its use and deployment in...