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Henrik Blyt, VIA University College, Thursday November 20th 2014

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The Challenge

• Buildings consume about 40% of the total energy requirements in Europe.

• On average, the existing housing stock in Europe will be standing for the next 75 years.

• The current renovation rate of the building stock is only 1% per year.

• There is a need for more energy efficient and deeper renovations.

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“SURE! – Nordic Built for

Sustainable Retrofitting”

is a Nordic project focused

on renovating the existing

housing stock by optimising

the energy consumption in

an efficient and inexpensive

way.

The Project

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Parallel to the installation of heat optimising technologies,

residents are supported in achieving a more sustainable

energy behaviour, so the daily use contributes to

lowering the building’s total heat consumption.

The Project

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The goal of the project is to:

• Reduce the energy consumption for heating with

up to 15% before an energy renovation

• Integrate an ICT platform for registration and

assessment of the indoor climate

• Develop an interactive visualisation platform to

achieve energy savings of 15-20%

• Establish an open ICT infrastructure supporting a

higher degree of information sharing

The Project

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Who Are We

The SURE! Project consists of companies, technical

institutes and knowledge institutions from Finland,

Sweden and Denmark.

The three participating companies are:

• Ecofective

• BaseN

• IC-Meter

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Who Are We

The participating technical institutes from Sweden –

Swedish ICT – are:

• Interactive Institute

• Acreo

The participating knowledge institutions

from Denmark are:

• VIA University College

• Insero Energy

• Insero Business Services

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The SURE Solution

The project combines three systems in one solution:

• A diagnostics and optimisation system to map the energy consumption

• An interactive visualisationsystem

• An open ICT infrastructure

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The SURE Solution

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Optimisation

Visualisation

Open ICT infrastructure

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The project features a number of pilot

buildings in Denmark and Sweden.

The end goal is a total of 50 demonstration

buildings in the Nordic countries.

The timeframe for pilot and demonstration is

from 2014 to mid 2016.

Demonstration

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Social housing as demonstration

• will be part of a development project

• has a separate heat supply

• has a majority of tenants that

wish to be involved actively as

informants through user-driven

innovation

• has buildings from before 1970 in

Horsens, Copenhagen, Malmö,

Stockholm and Helsinki

Demonstration

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Previous experiments carried out at the Frauenhofer

Institute in Germany with two identical buildings.

Energy savings (accumulated):

Test results

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The behaviour

In addition to the technical optimisation, the project will involve the tenants and support them in a more energy efficient use of their home.

The project expects to promote sustainable behavioural patterns among the residents, e.g. by preventing the so-called ‘rebound’ effect, where the consumption rises following an energy renovation.

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