You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

Proceedings, Volume 2, Issue 15

SP 2018 2018 - 21 articles

Sustainable Places 2018

Aix-Les-Bains, France | 27–29 June 2018

Issue Editor: Zia Lennard, R2M Solution s.r.l., Italy

Cover Story: On June 27th and 28th INES, the Research & Development premises in Chambery hosted the Sustainable Places Conference 2018 (SP2018), an official EU Sustainable Energy Day intended to foster innovative market solutions and empower synergies between Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB) and interdependent smart grids, policies, construction actors, and forward-thinking communities. More than 165 delegates from different stakeholder segments representing countries all over the world participated, thanks to a group of supporting collaborators that made the event possible. The symposium involved several scientific posters being displayed, with thirteen clustering workshops, eight presentations, and eight keynote speeches being delivered.
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (21)

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,896 Views
5 Pages

Maturity of a Condominium for Renovation: What Are the Influential Criteria? Analysis in the French Context

  • Theo Henriel,
  • Claire Oms,
  • Marc Mequignon,
  • Damien Arbault and
  • Gilles Escadeillas

19 December 2018

In recent decades, much work has been done to facilitate the technical aspect of building renovation. However, the efforts made in housing renovation, especially in condominiums, are not sufficient to meet energy transition targets. In this specific...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,075 Views
5 Pages

31 October 2018

This paper presents work developing thin precast concrete sandwich panels for recladding and overcladding applications. These panels are designed for the retrofit of precast concrete structures where the underlying frame is structurally sound. Struct...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,445 Views
5 Pages

Plug-and-Play Solutions for Energy-Efficiency Deep Renovation of European Building Stock

  • Rizal Sebastian,
  • Anna Gralka,
  • Rosamaria Olivadese,
  • Marco Arnesano,
  • Gian Marco Revel,
  • Timo Hartmann and
  • Christoph Gutsche

25 September 2018

Ninety percent of the existing building stock in Europe was built before 1990. These buildings are in urgent need for a significant improvement of energy-efficiency through renovation. State-of-the-art renovation solutions are available, but costly a...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,476 Views
5 Pages

Introducing GEOFIT: Cost-Effective Enhanced Geothermal Systems for Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting

  • Thomas Messervey,
  • Marco Calderoni,
  • Angel Font,
  • Mikel Borras,
  • Ray Sterling,
  • David Martin and
  • Zia Lennard

21 September 2018

GEOFIT, “Deployment of novel GEOthermal systems, technologies and tools for energy efficient building retrofitting,” is a recently launched 4-year H2020 project funded by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) under the call topic LCE-17...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,640 Views
5 Pages

6 September 2018

Highly automatEd PHysical Achievements and performancES using cable roboTs Unique Systems (HEPHAESTUS) is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project carried out by 9 partners from across Europe that addresses novel concepts to introduce Robotics and Autonomous...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,162 Views
5 Pages

Connecting the Knowhow of Design, Production and Construction Professionals through Mixed Reality to Overcome Building’s Performance Gaps

  • Rizal Sebastian,
  • Rosamaria Olivadese,
  • Emanuele Piaia,
  • Roberto Di Giulio,
  • Peter Bonsma,
  • Jan-Derrick Braun and
  • Günther Riexinger

3 September 2018

At present European buildings typically consume two to five times more energy than predicted at the design stage. An important cause of this performance gap is the discrepancies between the design specification and the As-Built condition. Such discre...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,889 Views
5 Pages

According to the previsions of Paris Agreement 2015, several Green Strategies (GS) can be implemented to control and reduce the GHG emissions due to the building sector and construction industries. The paper presents the first results of a research i...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,399 Views
5 Pages

District Energy Systems: A Collaborative Exchange of Results on Planning, Operation and Modelling for Energy Efficiency

  • Tatiana Loureiro,
  • Miika Rämä,
  • Raymond Sterling,
  • Marco Cozzini,
  • Meritxell Vinyals,
  • Michael Descamps,
  • Wolfgang Birk,
  • Gozde Unkaya,
  • Federica Fuligni and
  • Borna Doračić
  • + 10 authors

Workshop organized by INDIGO project as a collaborative activity among EU funded projects in the area of District Heating and Cooling. The objective of the workshop was twofold: (1) to create a cluster of European funded projects working in the area...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,488 Views
5 Pages

Heat-to-Fuel is a 48 months Horizon 2020 project which main objective is to deliver the next generation of biofuel production technologies supporting the de-carbonisation of the transportation sector by integrating its novel technologies together wit...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,189 Views
5 Pages

DRIvE is a 36 months Horizon 2020 project which main objective is to unlock the Demand Response (DR) potential of residential and tertiary buildings in the distribution grid. DRIvE comprehensive platform can be seamlessly integrated with existing ass...

of 3

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Proceedings - ISSN 2504-3900