Main theme
Build green and renovate deep
Sub-themes of the conference are
Investing in high performance
- Quantified benefits of high performance buildings – evidence on rent, productivity, satisfaction, image, vacancy etc.
- Inclusion of benefits in investment calculations
- Procurement and contract models supporting ambitious targets
- Green Public Procurement GPP
- Integrated design methods
How to measure green?
- Key environmental performance metrics including materials and indoor climate
- Standards, tools and methodology developments
- National vs. international labeling and certification schemes
- Implementation of EU Ecolabel Criteria
- Performance metrics in local context
Nearly zero energy buildings
- National applications of nZEB definitions
- Cost optimality and other experience from case studies
- Performance verification and automating maintenance
- Occupant behavior effects on nZEB performance
- Energy system level impacts of nZEB buildings
- Cross-cutting ICT solutions for smart cities (buildings, districts, mobility and infrastructure)
Deep, integrated renovation
- Renovation grant schemes, incentives and business models boosting and supervising renovation
- Economic benefits of renovation on project and macroeconomic level
- Ventilation improvement, installations and systems
- Prefabricated elements, heat pump applications and other novel technical solutions
- Evidence from monitoring case studies
Energy aspects in land use planning
- Energy and other relevant analyses supporting planning
- Solar energy availability and solutions for nZEB neighbourhoods
- Biofuel solutions for nZEB neighbourhoods
- Tools, processes, methods and input data
