Anglet, France (30th June).

The European Project Energy in Time will be presenting at the Sustainable Places Conference, an innovative simulation-based control technique for improving energy efficiency in buildings

Energy in Time (EiT) project goes beyond existing building control techniques. The project is developing an integrated control & operation approach that will allow reducing system inefficiencies, contributing to improve building energy efficiency and comfort. Up to date, no other energy efficient tool or solution has been developed to be applied in nonresidential buildings. The use of the control methods proposed to operate existing building energy systems will result on 20% saving over previous energy consumption. To present this approach, the project has organized a workshop to be held during the Sustainable Places Conference in Anglet (France). It will take place next 30th June at Room 4 (9 – 12:30 a.m.), and registration to the conference is necessary following this link Energy in Time Workshop During the session, the speakers will address the question “how to save energy and costs during buildings operation and maintenance?” from viewpoints of different actors in the building sector. The project partners will report about the solutions investigated in EiT project and their application in four demo buildings including an airport, offices and test labs, a commercial and office building, and a hotel. This way the four demo sites will give credible evidence of the benefits of the application of this innovative approach for buildings operation and maintenance

WORKSHOP CONTEXT

Up to 90% of the buildings’ life cycle carbon emissions occur during their operational phase, mainly as consequence of the HVAC, lighting and appliances’ energy use. This phase also represents 80% of building’s life-cycle cost of which 50% is consequence of the energy use. Therefore, energy and cost saving strategies addressing the building operation phase have a major impact in the building life cycle cost. During the session, the innovations of the European project Energy IN TIME (EiT) that contribute to reduce costs and energy consumption during building operation will be presented, assessing their future relevance and performance, considering the maturity and needs of the market.

Workshop Agenda – 30th June
 09.00 – Energy IN TIME (EiT) project presentation
 Belén Gómez-Uribarri (Acciona Infraestructuras)
 09.20 – EiT integrated solution for building control
 Jesús Campaña (Universidad de Granada)
 09.30 – Automatic operational plans generation
 Jesús Campaña (Universidad de Granada)
 09.50 – Building HVAC Fault Detection & Diagnostics
 Anarta Ghosh (United Technologies Research Centre Ireland – UTRCI)
 10.10 – Fault-adaptive control for VAV damper stuck in a multizone building
 Tejaswinee Darure (Université de Lorraine)
 10.30 – Coffee Break
 11.00 – Decision support method for building mid-long term analysis
 Benoît Vinot (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment – CSTB)
 11.20 – Data mining for improving building operation
 Jesús Campaña (Universidad de Granada)
 11.40 – Lessons learnt from the four EiT demo sites in Faro, Bucarest, Levi and Helsinki
 Heikki Rostila (Caverion)
 12. 00 – Open discussion and questions
 12.30 – End of workshop

EXPECTED WORKSHOP OUTCOMES:

During the session, the speakers will address the question from viewpoints of different actors in the building sector, such as representatives from industrial companies, RTD performers, specialised SMEs in the field of consultancy, building maintenance, or technology providers.

They will report about the solutions investigated in EiT project and their application in four demo buildings with different typologies, uses and expected user behavior that have been selected to serve as testing places for the project by implementing innovative simulation-based control techniques aiming to reduce energy consumption and energy bill during their operation phase.

Different climatic zones are also addressed as the buildings are located in Bucharest (Romania), Faro (Portugal), Helsinki and Levi (Finland).

The session will show real ways forward from demonstrations and lessons learnt into replication of the experience in non-residential buildings in Europe, which present the building typologies that guaranties higher impact and room for improvement due to the variety and quantity of facilities and equipment covered and the operational management model used.

Design, energy management offices, investors and professionals form the building sector are targets of the session.

INNOVATIONS BEING ADDRESSED BY ENERGY IN TIME (EIT)

Energy IN TIME (EiT) project goes beyond existing building control techniques, developing an integrated control & operation approach, that combines state of the art modelling techniques with the development of an innovative simulation-based control technique with the overarching objective of automating the generation of optimal operational plans tailored to the actual building and users requirements. This approach will allow reducing system inefficiencies and contributing to improve building energy efficiency and comfort.

No other energy efficient tool or solution has been developed to date to be applied in non-residential buildings. The global novelty of the project relies on the integration of following partial innovations:

• Predictive simulations techniques for the design and update of the operative plans.
• Adaptive algorithms for the real-time control of the deviations in energy systems performance
• Integration of the monitoring and metering systems of the building
• Real-time adjustment of the execution of the operational plan
• Automatic generation of optimal operation plans for the HVAC systems
• Remote and automatic operation of the HVAC systems

The use of these control methods to operate existing building energy systems will result on 20% saving over previous energy consumption.

EiT project, started in October 2013 and funded by European Commission, is developing a Smart Energy Simulation-Based Control method to reduce the energy consumption and energy bill in the operational stage of existing non-residential buildings. The new techniques are based on the prediction of indoor comfort conditions and user behavior performance to improve the lifetime and efficiency of energy equipment and installations through continuous commissioning and predictive maintenance. A control tool will be implemented in the building energy management systems to be automatically and remotely operated. During the session, four demo sites will give credible evidence of the benefits of the application of this innovative approach for buildings operation and maintenance.

• Registration fees

  Before 07/06/16	After 07/06/16
  290 € TTC	410 € TTC

• Social Program

  	Additionnal ticket to the Gala dinner on June 29th 2016		30 € TTC
  	Participation to the farewell drink on June 30th 2016 (included)