Refurbishment of the public building stock towards nZEB (RePublic_ZEB)

Description

The overall objective of the RePublic_ZEB project was to help public authorities to reduce energy consumption in their buildings to nearly zero in line with Art. 9 of the EPBD. Thus, the main aim of the project was to promote on the market a set of concrete technical solutions for the refurbishment of the public buildings by increasing the involved key actors’ confidence on nZEB, and to take particular steps to accelerate the existing public building renovations. The project mainly focused on the Mediterranean and the South-East European countries in which there are common conditions of climate, energy performance (both cooling and heating are important) and available RES potential.

The core objective of the project was to:

• Define costs-benefits optimized “packages of measures” based on efficient and quality guaranteed technologies for the refurbishment of the public building stock towards nZEB that are standardized and adopted by builders and building owners.

The underlying objectives were:

• Assessment of the public building stock through an evaluation of the energy consumption and CO2 emissions;
• Definition of reference buildings;
• Development of a common framework and a harmonised methodology for the definition of NZEB concept for public buildings.

Results