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EffCoBuild “Energy Efficiency Communities – establishing

pilot communities for the building sector”

M. Kolpek

Partners: Austrian Society for Environment and Technology (AUT), Comm. Thalgau (AUT), SIR

- Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung & Wohnen (AUT), Berliner Energieagentur GmbH (GER), Comm. Eggesin (GER), Comm. Sala (SK), Regionálna energetická

agentúra (SK), ZRMK - Technological Building & Civil Engineering Institute (SLO), JEKO-IN (SLO)

Contract No. EIE/05/063 - Effcobuild

Final Publishable Report

January 2006 to June 2008

Project supported by the European commission in the framework of of the EU-Programm Energy Intelligent Europe

EffCoBuild EIE/05/063/SI2.419490 PUBLIC REPORT AUGUST '08

EffCoBuild Project Partners

AUSTRIA:

Mag. Michael Kolpek (project co-ordination) ÖGUT - Austrian Society for Environment and Technology Hollandstraße 10/46, 1020 Wien Phone: +43 1 / 315 63 96 -30 Fax: +43 1 / 315 63 93 - 22 e-mail: [email protected] DI Alice Sedmidubsky ÖGUT - Austrian Society for Environment and Technology Hollandstraße 10/46, 1020 Wien Phone: +43 1 / 315 63 96 -28 Fax: +43 1 / 315 63 93 - 22 e-mail: [email protected] DI Gerhard Bayer ÖGUT - Austrian Society for Environment and Technology Hollandstraße 10/46, 1020 Wien Phone: +43 1 / 315 63 96 -16 Fax: +43 1 / 315 63 93 - 22 e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Herbert Greisberger ÖGUT - Austrian Society for Environment and Technology Hollandstraße 10/46, 1020 Wien Phone: +43 1 / 315 63 96 -13 Fax: +43 1 / 315 63 93 - 22 e-mail: [email protected] DI Helmut Strasser SIR - Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung & Wohnen Alpenstraße 47, 5020 Salzburg Phone: +43 662 / 62 34 55 - 26, Fax: +43 662 / 62 99 15 e-mail: [email protected] DI Monika Bischof SIR - Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung & Wohnen Alpenstraße 47, 5020 Salzburg Phone: +43 662 / 62 34 55 - 17, Fax: +43 662 / 62 99 15 e-mail: [email protected] Gerhard Enzesberger Gemeinde Thalgau Wartenfelserstraße 2, 5303 Thalgau Phone: +43 6235 / 74 71 – 30 Fax: +43 6235 / 74 71 - 15 e-mail: [email protected] GERMANY:

Claudia Alt Berliner Energieagentur GmbH Französische Straße 23, 10117 Berlin Phone: +49 30 / 29 33 30 – 36 Fax: +49 30 / 29 33 30 - 99 e-mail: [email protected] Bürgermeister Dennis Gutgesell Com. Eggesin Hans-Fischer-Straße 21, D-17367 Eggesin Phone: +49 39 / 779 - 26 441 e-mail: [email protected] Helmut Schiebel Com. Eggesin Hans-Fischer-Straße 21, 17367 Eggesin Phone: +49 39 / 779 - 0 Bianka Schwibbe Com. Eggesin Hans-Fischer-Straße 21, 17367 Eggesin Phone: +49 39 / 779 - 26 428 e-mail: [email protected]

SLOVAKIA:

Dipl.Ing. Karol Mikloš REA - Regionálna energetická agentúra Partizánska 20 5, SK-92701 Šaľa Phone/Fax: +421 31 / 770 62 59 e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] MUDr. Martin Alföldi Com. Šaľa Namestie Sv. Trojice 7, SK-92715 Šaľa Phone: +421 31 / 770 - 2351, Fax: +421-31 / 770 - 6021 e-mail: primator@Šaľa.sk Dipl.Ing. Eliška Vágová Com. Šaľa Namestie Sv. Trojice 7, SK-92715 Šaľa Phone: +421-31 / 770-5985, Fax: +421-31 / 770-6021 e-mail: vargova@Šaľa.sk SLOVENIA:

Dr. Marjana Sijanec Zavrl BCEI ZRMK Dimiceva 12, 1000 Ljubljana Phone: +386 1 / 280 83 42, Fax: +386 1 / 280 84 51 e-mail: [email protected] Marta Skubic, B.Sc. Civ.Eng. BCEI ZRMK Dimiceva 12, 1000 Ljubljana Phone: +386 1 / 280 84 89, Fax: +386 1 / 280 84 51 e-mail: [email protected] Dipl.Ing. Andraž Rakušček BCEI ZRMK Dimiceva 12, 1000 Ljubljana Phone: +386 1 / 280 84 89, Fax: +386 1 / 280 84 51 e-mail: [email protected] Dipl.Ing. Roman Novak Jeko-IN Cesta zelezarjev 6, 4270 Ljubljana Phone: +386 4 / 5810-433, Fax: +386 4 / 5810-456 e-mail: [email protected] Dipl.Ing. Robert Pajk Jeko-IN Cesta zelezarjev 6, 4270 Ljubljana e-mail: [email protected]

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TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Final Report Summary ......................................................................................................4

1.1 Objectives of the action............................................................................................4 1.2 Achieved results and lessons learnt during the action ...................................5 1.3 Identified problems and corrective actions taken during the action .........12 1.4 Activities and impact after end of the action ....................................................13

2. Consortium management during the action .............................................................14 3. Achievements of the action ...........................................................................................16

3.1 Achieved results per work package against initial objectives.....................16 3.2 List of deliverables...................................................................................................53 3.3 Review of impact of the action .............................................................................57 3.4 Success stories ........................................................................................................59

4. Lessons learnt...................................................................................................................60 4.1 Management ..............................................................................................................60 4.2 Communication and Dissemination ....................................................................61 4.3 Common Dissemination Activities ......................................................................62 4.4 Conclusions ...............................................................................................................62

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INDEX OF TABLES Table 1: Country results of the project ......................................................................................6 Table 2: Updated list of submitted deliverables of the action ..............................................53 Table 3: Review of performance indicators ............................................................................57

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1. Final Report Summary

1.1 Objectives of the action

The long-term target of the project was to move the communities towards an “Energy

Sustainable Community”, as described in the publication “Energy Sustainable Communities,

Experiences, Success Factors and Opportunities in the EU-25, 2004”. Gaining the energy

saving potential in the building sector can be the first step of such a process, and many citizens

can be effectively involved in the idea of sustainability. With the energy demand of buildings

having been reduced, covering the remaining energy demand by renewable energies is easier,

e.g. by employing thermal solar or biomass, because less storage volume or roof surface are

needed.

As many energy efficiency measures have an acceptable payback period, comparatively small

additional incentives are necessary to initiate their implementation. If certain energy efficiency

technologies are requested more often in a region, the building and supply companies will

correspondingly extend their assortment of products and services in the energy efficiency

sector. Therefore, the latter will size down in price and become more professional.

Tangible and visible demonstration projects are the most effective way to convince building

owners in the feasibility and reliability of energy efficiency concepts. The project focuses on

distributing the information on already existing best practise examples and creating new ones

on a local level. A brochure of the “best of” examples, excursions to successful projects, public

events for the citizens as well as several Public Relation activities in print and electronic media

will help distributing the results.

The methodology on how the community has analysed its framework for energy saving

measures, their saving potentials and their suitable measures were reported in detail on an own

project website. Communities in other European countries and worldwide can use the

methodologies and results to implement similar activities to move towards “Energy Efficiency

Communities” in their region. The concept of measures, worked out in each community includes

a list of measures to support energy efficiency in buildings. This list will provide a pool of ideas

for other communities, so they can apply the “lessons learnt” and recommendations, also

documented on the project website.

Communities are often linked together in networks by regional associations and decision-

makers, like mayors exchange their experience in regular meetings and own print media. These

means of communication will also be used to distribute the results of the project within the whole

region and the country.

The short term objective of the project was to reduce the energy demand of buildings. The

project should overcome existing barriers for gaining the energy saving potentials in the building

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sector on community level. By involving and connecting the different stakeholders, such as

building owners, administration entities, financing institutes, private companies and regional

politicians, the joint economic and environmental interests will be bundled.

A concrete “saving target” for the community helped the single citizen to realise the dimensions

and changes of the energy efficiency measures. The project raised the awareness on

community level that sustainable energy supply in Europe is feasible and that energy efficiency

in buildings is a piece of a puzzle toward this “vision”. The project also demonstrated that

environmental protection can positively affect economic benefits for the region, as energy

efficiency measures enable the local added value to mainly remain in the region.

1.2 Achieved results and lessons learnt during the action

The results referred to the target groups in the community (owners of public buildings, owners of

apartment houses with tenants, private building owners of single-family houses, tenants of

apartment houses, community administration, companies and deliverers in the construction

sector) and the citizens. It should increase their attention for:

- the energy efficiency measures in the building sector are an important step towards a

sustainable energy supply

- a large number of measures and actions can be set by the community stakeholder

themselves

- energy efficiency measures provide a positive impulse for the regional economic

development and employment situation by the added value kept in the region

The community received a detailed analysis of the energy saving potentials for its buildings, a

concept of measures for enhanced exploitation of the potentials, a “best of” brochure with

examples from the own region and examples from “abroad”. As a result, a pilot project was

implemented in each community. The pilot communities should serve as a role model for the

surrounding regions as well as for communities in other European countries.

The results in the partner communities differ due to their varying pilot projects concepts:

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Table 1: Country results of the project

Results Lessons learnt

AUSTRIA

A. Saving potentials The energy saving potentials could be visualized as a virtual energy efficiency power plant which symbolizes the

energy that has not been produced and used due to the

energy efficiency measures that have been implemented.

When renovating 300 private houses and all communal

buildings it is possible to save in total 5.925 MWh of energy

each year. This target could be reached in 2017. The amount

of 5.925 MWh/a is equal to the energy amount which is sold

by the biomass power plant of Thalgau each year. The

capacity of the power plant is 2.000 kW.

B. Concrete Achievements

− Demonstration of energy saving potential (by 40%) through

refurbishment of the Polytechnical school in Thalgau.

− The purchase of green electricity was organised by the

community of Thalgau within the fram of this project. A new

contract for the supply of green electricity has been fixed

with a local supplier (Ökostrombörse Salzburg) and the

− Simplification of the tender

process needed through

multilevel contracting

− All stakeholder need to

have the same level of

knowledge in order to

understand the activities

planned.

− Focus on feasible measures

and better choice of sites to

implement the planned

measures

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supply with green electricity has started in January 1st,

2008.

− Improvement of energy efficiency in buildings through the

tenderer -agreed to service the local enterprises in trade

and industry to identify saving potentials and to assist them

in the implementation of necessary steps

− e5 membership: this is a program for awarding

municipalities for the efficient usage of energy and green

energy. It is connected to the European energy award.

− Energy accounting software: “E-Buch” software for the

gathering and analyse of energy data of buildings

− Supply of the households with green electricity

C. Long lasting effects

− Increased awareness about energy efficiency; strong

attendance to public information campaign and services

(energy consulting for private house owners)

− Experience in the tender process through the complex

proceedings to find the right contractor

− Application of a two-phase performance contracting model

to improve the quality of knowledge between the contractor

and the costumer for future public tender

GERMANY

A. Saving potentials

The final energy saving potential is summarized in the picture

below showing the “energy saving plant” of Eggesin. It

visualizes the high potential in private households with about

2.700 MWh/a (heat energy of private residential buildings and

electricity of all households), followed by potentials of the

industry of about 650 MWh/a. The communal buildings,

residential and public buildings together, offer the lowest

potential due to measures already performed.

− Pilot community:

Consideration of the

structural situation of the

community partner

− Information level: small

municipalities need support

to get qualified information.

Increase of energy

consumption: The

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http://www.european-energy-award.org/




− Field test:

The application of electronic controllable thermostatic valves

for heat radiators in Wittstock.

The field study is divided into three performance periods. The

first period embraces the involvement of the project partners

(energy suppliers, manufactures, and housing associations).

In the second phase the described technology should be

installed in the participating households. Additionally, several

interviews shall be carried out with the tenants, the

technicians, and the household associations. In the third and

last phase, the energy consumption and the results of the

interviews were evaluated. Due to the relevance of the field

test the BEA was able to negotiate a price of 40 to 50 %

below the actual market price.

municipality should increase

its activities and build up a

network with other

municipalities in the region

to implement measures by

low costs. Joint projects

could be: energy

commissary, mobile energy

counselling, or CO2-

reducing plan for the region.

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Figure 1: Project development plan

− Development of a webbased tool to collect the energy

consumption of households in cooperation with the

company Vattenfall (VEB) and publication of materials in

the form of an handbook, acontrolling utility and a software-

tool on the website of the community.


− An additional cost reduction is possible to achieve due to

the financial support of the energy suppliers GASAG and

EMB.

SLOVAKIA


The potentials could be achieved by realizing the following

targets:

− Accept provisions regarding energy savings and increasing

energy efficiency according to usage.

− Constantly inrease the awareness of the citizens about

possibilities regarding efficiency and savings in households

and at workplaces

− Public education at schools helping to increase the energy

awareness of pupils

− Looking for financial sources in order to use alternative (

Key learning from the

Slovakian case is that the

resources needed to run a

project has to be considered

very carefully from the very

beginning. Better

communication with the

supporting agency is

necessary.

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renewable) energy sources for heat and electricity

production


Due to the exit of the community of Šaľa in that period, no

results could be identified.

SLOVENIA


The estimated energy savings in residential and municipal

housing stock could reach 45% (48.642 MWh /year) in case

of implementation of the most important energy saving

measures. 30% of the identified energy saving measures is

the measures with the payback bellow 10 years.

Energy savings in space heating, identified in different

building types are as followed in the figure below:

Municipal efforts for the

renovation of existing

residential buildings encounter

difficulties like social,

organisational and financial

barriers (scattered ownership

– problems with consensus for

renovation, a lot of low income

flat owners after privatisation,

the lack of motivation for

improvement). It is very

important to make various

instruments, like information of

energy indicators, best

practice cases, energy

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In case of the implementation of the proposed measures the

municipality Jesenice could reduce CO2 emissions in the

building sector for:

advisory service, financial

subsidies and technical

support in organisation of the

building renovation easily

accessible to the building

owners and/or their

representatives. Good linking

of information may multiply the

impact of particular instrument

and increase the number of

renovation cases.

− 8,4 mio ton/year CO2 in single family houses,

− 6,0 mio ton/years in apartment buildings and

− 0,6 mio ton/year in public building sector.


Web site benchmarking: The web site supports cross-linked

various existing studies (local energy plan, energy audit of

apartment buildings), municipal strategic programms on

energy supply in the municipality and on the development of

social housing in Jesenice as well as up-dated national and

local subsidies of RES and RUE in the housing sector.

− Delivered energy for 40 apartment buildings connected to

d.h. and considered as big energy consumers in the heating

season 1998/99, on-line consumption data available for

recent years

− Ranking of 40 apartment buildings by energy saving

potential – big potential, average, already refurbished cases

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− Pilot energy certificate for 40 apartment buildings

− IR thermography for 40 apartment buildings

− Energy advisory network ENSVET – strengthening the role

of energy advisors in EE project formation

− EIE EI-Education, EIE Passive Retrofit Kit , EIE SHARE –

target: building managers, building owners, users of flats in

social housing


− Information and awareness raising of building managers

− Training of building managers

1.3 Identified problems and corrective actions taken during the action

Austria: The community of Thalgau decided for the pilot project “„performance contracting” ” out

the concept of measures. The energy saving potential was analysed and a public tender was

started. It included the “„performance contracting” ” of the public buildings and the supply with

“green” (renewable) energy. Due to the fact that the houses were in good conditions (that

means the saving potentials = margins for the energy service company were low) and the

participation on a public tender was too extensive for most of the interested companies, the

tender process was not that successful and made it difficult to find an interested “energy service

company” (ESCO) which could guarantee the required measures. As a result of these problems

the community decided to implement only the renovation of the polytechnic school, the supply

with green energy and to support the actions of the “Ökostrombörse Salzburg” (this is a

company which was established to support the modernization of green electricity installation

and measures for energy saving to increase the efficiency of electric energy appliances) by

joining it and financing renewable energy projects.

Germany: The aim of establishing a pilot community concerning energy consumption in the

building sector with the Community of Eggesin objectively seems not to be achieved, because

of structural problems e.g. the economic situation of the community because of the geographic

situation but also due to low interest of financial partners to participate in the project and other

difficulties e.g. the long distance between the Berliner Energieagentur and the community of

Eggesin. The local gas supplier refused the dissemination of data of the energy consumption of

the community and therefore the data of energy and heat consumption of the private buildings

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had to be estimated by appropriate benchmarks referring to the age and the renovation status

and estimated shares.

Slovakia: Due to the exit of the community of Šaľa in that period, no actions could be identified.

Slovenia: The collection of the information of best practice cases in Jesenice was difficult and

time consuming. It is not a common practice to store the energy consuming data information,

especially since there are many actors involved in the renovation projects (building

management companies, multiple building owners, various contractors and craftsmen). Several

interviews with the actors had to be done and the information collected was cross-checked in

order to publish consistent and accurate data.

1.4 Activities and impact after end of the action

Austria: The EffCoBuild project effected that energy was always a topic in the municipality in

the last 2.5 years (in workshops, events, newspaper…). Thalgau has continued its way based

on the general energy concept. In spring 2009 there are elections on communal level where

energy will be a topic again. When a municipality wants to reach a certain level of energy

efficiency it is very obvious that they need a professional contact person, preferable a person in

the municipal administration, who cares for this topic. This person must be interested in energy,

should have a certain technical knowledge, should know the important persons, should be

communicative, should know a little bit about project management and most important: must be

convinced of the importance of energy efficiency and renewable energy. The local energy team

of Thalgau has these qualities. Without this team a lot of measures could not be implemented.

Germany: The big challenge for the municipality in future will be to support their inhabitants to

reduce their energy consumption and thus their costs especially private building owners and

households.

The municipality should increase its activities and build up a network with other municipalities in

the region to implement measures by low costs. Joint projects could be energy commissary,

mobile energy counselling, or CO2-reducing plan for the region.

Slovenia: The communication with the actors in Jesenice during the lifetime of the project

stimulated the interest for further development of two main activities: training of building

managers (apartment buildings have to make an agreement with a professional building

management company for the purpose of service, maintenance, renovation of the building) and

development of „performance contracting” projects in apartment buildings together with the

started efforts for demonstration projects of renovation on “low energy houses” level of a

residential building.

Impacts of the action in Jesenice Slovenia:

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Short term impact of the action is demonstrated in better cross-linking of relevant information for

building renovation. That is important since recently a new budget line for incentives for complex

RES and RUE building renovation in Slovenia was opened. One of the elements for the

realization of the concluded measurements in apartment buildings in the municipality of

Jesenice is the “online energy indicator”. In the last decade (from the first municipal efforts to

the end of EffCoBuild project) the average energy indicators (for primary energy and CO2

emissions), for the apartment building stock in Jesenice was reduced by up to 10% by

behavioural changes and investments, due to the cross-linked support at the web site the

achieved savings in the whole apartment stock are expected to be doubled.

Long term impact: The replication potential of web site benchmarking and support to RES and

RUE renovation of apartment buildings is high, since there are other potential municipalities in

Slovenia that could implement such an approach (Kranj, Maribor, Nova Gorica, Velenje,

Ljubljana, Celje, Ravne, Slovenj Gradec, Kočevje, Piran).

2. Consortium management during the action

The EffCoBuild-Project started on 1.1.2006 and ended by 30.06.2008. As main coordinator of

the project, ÖGUT (Austrian Society for Environment and Technology) had the responsibility for

project planning and scheduling, internal / external reporting, the documentation of the results

as well as the coordination of the transnational activities.

Apart from ÖGUT as overall (umbrella) coordinator, four communities and four supporting

agencies participated into the project. The participants were from Austria, Germany, Slovakia

and Slovenia:

Country Community Supporting Agency

Austria Thalgau SIR

Germany Eggesin BEA

Slovakia Šaľa REA

Slovenia Jesenice BCEI ZRMK

In order to guarantee smooth communication and understanding between the partners, regular

project meetings in form of workshops were organized. As part of the different work packages,

national workshops took place and the results of these were presented and discussed during

trans-national workshops. The aim of the workshops was to ensure the quality in terms of timely

execution and content of the different tasks as well as to negotiate the next steps of the project.

Additionally to that, the project was presented during two contractors meetings.

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On February 6th, 2006 during the contractors meeting (CM) in Brussels, the project was

presented to other IEE contractors and for the information exchange with those contractors and

the European Community (EC).

As agreed in the contract, four transnational workshops as well as two contractors meetings

(CM) took place, one in each participating country.

• Start - Workshop: Vienna (Austria), March 13th-15 th 2006

o First joint project meeting of the participants

o Commitment on the key steps and activities of the forthcoming months

o Presentation and analysis of first investigations and interviews conducted in the

frame of WP2

o Visit of two buildings, recognized as best practice examples for energy efficiency

(passive house technology in social housing) in the building sector

• Workshop 1 Berlin (Germany), September 26 th-27 th 2006

o Summary presentation of the country reports for WP2 (framework analysis)

o Presentation of the surveys on energy consumption in the partner communities

o Discussion and commitment on the key steps and activities of the forthcoming

months

• CM Meeting: Lyon (France), November 2006

o Project Presentation

• Workshop 2: Šaľa (Slovakia), February 22nd 2007

o Presentation of the draft concepts of measures of all communities

o Discussion of next steps to finalise WP 4 – Concept of measures to enhance

energy efficiency in the building sector

o Outlook on WP 5 – Compilation of "10 best of" brochure and WP 6 –

Implementing pilot projects

o Further dissemination activities / public relations for EffCoBuild

o Contractual and financial matters

o Conclusions and next steps

• Workshop 3: Jesenice (Slovenia), October 23rd -24 th 2007

o WP 4/6: Report on actual state of concept of measures and work programme for

the next months of all communities

o WP 5 – Actual state and next steps to completion of "10 best of" brochure (BEA)

o WP7: Dissemination of results (ÖGUT)

o Contractual and financial matters (ÖGUT)

• CM Meeting: Brussels (Belgium), November 8 th-9th 2007

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o Presentation of project results

• Workshop 4: Salzburg (Austria), March 13 th-14 th2008

o WP 4/6: Report on actual state of selection and implementation of energy

efficiency in the partner communities (all partners)

o WP 5: Actual state and completion of "10 best of" brochure (BEA)

o WP7: Dissemination of results (ÖGUT)

o Preparation of final report and financial matters (ÖGUT)

o Technical visit of refurbished Polytechnical School and Thalgau's biomass district

heating plant

o Final agreement on final steps for completion of the project

The agendas and minutes of the workshops can be found in the appendices.

All relevant documents, such as agenda and minutes of the meeting as well as all presented

papers were available via the webbased data platform “sharehouse” of the project. Via this tool

any project partner was able to upload relevant information and documents. The project website

www.effcobuild.eu was created and all relevant documents that were meant to be seen publicly

have been published there. The website was maintained by ÖGUT for the time period stated in

the agreement.

3. Achievements of the action 3.1 Achieved results per work package against initial objectives

WORK PACKAGE 1: PROJECT AND CONSORTIUM MANAGEMENT

Within the EffCoBuild project ÖGUT, the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology, was

responsible for the project planning and scheduling, internal and external reporting and

documentation and the coordination of transnational activities. In this role ÖGUT had the

responsibility for organizing the start workshop in Vienna in March 2006 and prepare the

partners for the project by presenting the project flow and packages. Furthermore ÖGUT

delivered three progress reports, one interim report and the current final report on the project.

As part of the administration work, ÖGUT delivered also the financial reports.

After the national workshops had taken place, transnational meetings were organized, where

the outcome of the national workshops was discussed and the next steps were negotiated. In

the coordinator role, ÖGUT ensured that all meetings were reported and the follow-up actions of

the committed actions were executed.

The transnational workshops and their main topics / achievements were:

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http://sharehouse.wienfluss.net/

http://www.effcobuild.eu/


• Start-Workshop: Vienna (Austria), March 13th-15th, 2006 – setting the stage for the

project and focusing on WP 2

• Workshop 1: Berlin (Germany), September 26th-27th, 2006 – discussion of the framework

analysis and outlook for WP3

• Workshop 2: Šaľa (Slovakia), February 22nd, 2007 – finalization of WP 4 and outlook on

WP5

• Workshop 3: Jesenice (Slovenia), October 23rd -24th, 2007 – WP5 and WP6 (project

implementation) progress. Further the information dissemination was discussed -

publication of all necessary deliverables on the Effcobuild-project home page

effcobuild.eu ( the website was located and hosted by ÖGUT – all necessary information

about the project like duration, partners and content were published there) as well as

broader publicity possibilities of the project by presenting them on the homepages of the

partners (communities and agencies).

• Workshop 4: Salzburg (Austria), March 13th -14th, 2008 - WP5 and WP6 (project

implementation) progress. Šaľa announced its decision to step out of the project;

however the decision didn’t affect the budgets and commitments of the other partners. In

terms of information dissemination, a lot of articles had been published, but even more

publicity had to be ensured.

Figure 2: Project meeting in Salzburg, March 13 / 14, 2008

All relevant documents such as agenda and minutes of the meeting as well as all presented

papers were available via the sharehouse project website. On this platform the project partners

were able to upload relevant information and documents. The software of this internet tool

guarantees save online-communication in the password-secured project area. Additionally the

project website www.effcobuild.eu was created and charged with the necessary information and

maintained by ÖGUT.

There was an ongoing exchange of information via mail and phone. Further, project partners

were regularly informed about the project status, time schedule and next steps to take.

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WORK PACKAGE 2: ANALYSIS OF EXISTING FRAMEWORK AND INSTRUMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROMVEMENTS

The leader of the WP2 was ÖGUT. The goal of the WP2 was to understand the existing

framework and instruments for energy measures in the building sector. This analysis was done

on a national level. Following topics had to be analysed:

• Economic framework in the community (e.g. energy costs accounting methods,

etc.)

• Financing framework (e.g. availability of loans, knowledge of innovative financing

instruments)

• Legal framework (e.g. ownership of apartment buildings, responsibility for

investment and refurbishment, etc.)

• Know-how / technical framework (e.g. knowledge level of the stakeholders and

citizens about energy consumption and costs in buildings, etc.)

• Possibilities to improve the frameworks (e.g. what instruments are missing, how

can existing instruments be improved, etc.)

A detailed report on the results of the questioned experts was provided. As result of the surveys

that each community performed, SWOT analyses of existing and possible instruments were

created. This information was then used to develop the energy saving potentials and concepts

for the pilot projects in each community. The detailed SWOT analyses and reports can be found

in the Annex 5 and on the project homepage (www.effcobuild.eu).

WORK PACKAGE 3: ENERGY SAVING POTENTIALS IN THE BUILDING SECTOR

The leader of WP3 was ÖGUT. As presented in previous reports in more details it was planned

to investigate the total energy demand of the participating communities as well as the amount of

energy consumed by the buildings.

The building stock has been classified by its condition regarding the energy demand and the

saving potentials have been estimated for each group of buildings consequently. The

estimations were orientated at technical standard values and experience values of energy

refurbishments of buildings in the region. The sum of the saving potentials in all building groups

resulted in the total energy saving potential in the respective communities.

In order to gain the interest of the stakeholders and citizens of different educational background

for the idea of energy efficiency, it was important to demonstrate its positive effect in an easily

understandable way. One option to visualise the saving potentials also for “non experts” was to

define a “virtual power plant”.

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As outcome of this work package each community has delivered a written report on the total

energy demand and on the energy demand in buildings divided in different type of buildings.

Further a report on the saving potentials in the buildings has been created. The demand and

saving potentials were discussed in national workshops.

In order to demonstrate the energy demand and saving potentials, posters with a visualized

“virtual power plant” have been prepared in the four participating communities and information

meeting were organized.

All documents prepared within this work package were also available via the project platform

sharehouse and the project website www.effcobuild.eu.

Following are examples of the posters.

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Figure 3: Poster Thalgau

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Figure 4: Poster Šaľa

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Figure 5: Poster Jesenice

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Figure 6: Poster Eggesin This work package has been completed in the course of 2007. Upon request of the EACI the

Austrian report has been revised and extended in January 2008. On the next pages the Thalgau

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WORK PACKAGE 4: CONCEPT OF MEASURES TO ENHANCE ENERGY SAVINGS IN BUILDINGS

The leader of the WP 4 was the REA (Regional Energy Agency Šaľa)

Based on the results of WP 3 the national teams had to develop measures to improve energy

efficiency in their communities. The consortium started to collect ideas and examples of

instruments, measures and actions on how to improve energy efficiency in the building sector.

These ideas together with the outcomes of work package 3 have been discussed with a number

of stakeholders from the respective communities and put together in draft concepts in the

following. In the frame of a trans-national workshop, held in February 2007 in Šaľa, these drafts

were presented and discussed.

The results of these discussions and the conclusions drawn from the transnational workshop

provided the basis for the development of the final concepts of instruments, measures and

actions. The Berlin Energy Agency was successful in winning Vattenfall Europe (VEB) as new

cooperation partner. With help of this partner an online energy counselling tool in Eggesin was

implemented at the end of June 2008.

The concepts mentioned above were available via the project platform sharehouse and on the

Effcobuild project website.

WORK PACKAGE 5: "10 BEST OF" BROCHURE

In order to stimulate new methods and approaches within the project consortium and to provide

instruments for a mutual learning assistance and exchange of know-how the compilation of a

best-practice brochure was started. A further aim of the brochure was to disseminate knowledge

on the wide range of possible measures within the population but also to decision makers of the

participating communities and surrounding areas.

The Berlin Energy Agency (BE) as work package leader provided a questionnaire to the

partners to collect data on best practice examples. Further, a template for providing the

examples was developed and distributed to the partners. In spring 2007 the partners started to

identify suitable best practice examples and to collect the necessary data for the elaboration of

the brochures.

Brochure Austria

Within the reporting period the Austrian brochure has been completed. The brochure was co-

financed by the government of the province of Salzburg and also was planned to be used and

disseminated together with the "Energieberatung Salzburg" (energy counselling service of the

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provincial government). Additionally, Energieberatung Salzburg provided the brochure on its

website: “Sanieren mit dem Energieausweis”

The full brochure can be found on the project website. Here an example of one of the best

practices the complete renovation of the secondary vocational college Bramberg.

Brochure Slovenia

The collection for the Slovenian brochure on best-practice examples on building renovation

also was completed. Best practice examples were presented and discussed also at the

transnational workshop in Ljubljana in October 2007. To enhance the appeal of best practice

cases additional data (like users' opinion on renovation) were collected after the meeting. In

order to optimise the promotion, the aim was to add the first results of the implemented

measures from WP6 (i.e. website benchmarking of energy indicators of large residential

buildings – biggest energy consumption to the web) to the “10 best of” practice brochure. Thus

the municipal actors were given comprehensive information not only about best practice

renovation cases but also on saving potentials of existing large energy consumers. Website

benchmarking was done by the end of February '08 and the data is available at the Slovenian

website of the community of Jesenice. Then the brochure was printed and distributed.

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http://www.salzburg.gv.at/sanieren_mit_dem_energieausweis_web.pdf

http://www.jeko-in.si/index.php?i=179


Here is one of the Slovenian examples:

Brochure Germany

In the course of the preparations for the German brochure two meetings have been organised

with the community of Eggesin (October 10, 2007 and January 23, 2008). During these

meetings, the collected good practice examples and their concepts were discussed. Until the

end of January 2008 nine examples have been collected and all those were described in

German and English. As a problem appeared to be that best practice or at least good examples

for refurbishment of one and two-family houses were very rare in the Eggesin region. Many

efforts were done to find examples. As a first step the reflux from the questionnaire for WP3 was

checked and some owners of houses with good benchmarks were asked for their consent to be

presented in the brochure. Then the stakeholders who accompanied the development of the

concept of measures were asked. Additionally, local energy consultants and architects were

contacted by phone. Finally, an advertisement was published at the end of August in the

communal gazette to search for owners of private one- or two family houses that have

performed good energy saving measures in the course of the refurbishment of their buildings. In

parallel the local “architects’ table” was also asked by representatives of the community.

Unfortunately, there was no response. Moreover it turned out that the owners of energy efficient

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refurbished houses in question were not willing to present their house as an example in a

brochure.

This caused a considerable delay in finalising the brochure but eventually a 44-page brochure

was created. The brochure was disseminated at least among all communities in Northern East

Germany.

The brochure was disseminated at least among all communities in Northern East Germany. As

the other brochures, the full brochure can be found on the project website and bellow an

example of one of the best examples.

Brochure Slovakia:

The Slovakian best practice brochure focused on the public procurement requests for

service, maintenance and reconstruction:

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The project of reconstruction of the elementary school object (without the area of gym, dressing-

rooms and hygienic facilities was realised in the year 2005. The reconstruction of the own

building contained: the innovation of concrete covering in the classrooms and halls the change

of tile the change of window and external door to provide the facade against the heat loss

including the roof the innovation of the roof hydro isolation.

WORK PACKAGE 6: IMPLEMENTING PILOT PROJECTS

This work package was dedicated to the selection and implementation of at least one pilot

action per partner community. After the elaboration of the concepts of measures the partner

communities started a discussion process to identify those actions which should be

implemented first. After a preparative phase on national level a transnational workshop (D24) of

WP6 – Introduction and discussion of pilot projects in municipalities and recommendations for

improvement (Oct. 23, 2007) was organised by the work package leader ZRMK in Ljubljana with

5 lectures from EffCoBuild partners and municipalities (12 participants).

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Figure 7: Transnational workshop on the introduction and discussion of pilot projects in Ljubljana

Status in Austria

Because of its strong involvement in several programmes and activities for a sustainable

development the community of Thalgau organised or participated in a high number of meetings

on energy related issues. Therefore, the project team of Salzburg decided not to hold one single

national workshop to evaluate the concept and to select the most important measures for

implementation, but to raise the respective issues in several relevant meetings taking place in

the region/community. In particular, the following meetings have taken place:

- Meeting of regional members of the e5 team on February 7, 2007,

on April 18, 2007 and on December 4, 2007

- Special meeting of Thalgau's energy committee on November 20, 2007

In the course of these meetings the selection of measures to be implemented influenced the

implementation plan.

As already reported, first activities in Thalgau had to be started ahead the schedule in

spring/summer 2007: Preparations for a tender for a comprehensive contracting project to

improve the energy efficiency of 13 communal buildings and street lightning combined with the

supply of green electricity have been started. The reason to start this activity ahead the

schedule was the fact that the previous contract for electricity supply of Thalgau expired.

Therefore it was necessary to call for tenders early enough to ensure a smooth change over to

a new contract to supply the community with (green) electricity. Green electricity should have

been provided by January 2008, implementation of the other measures was meant to be started

before summer 2008. Several contractors expressed their interest in the participation of the

tender, but it turned out that contractors are not prepared for such innovative models so that the

implementation of this model will take more time and efforts than expected – finally only one

contractor submitted a proposal. As this proposal did not comply with a classical one, the

Austrian project team decided to go a strike a new path. The purchase of green electricity was

organised by the community of Thalgau itself. A new contract for the supply of green electricity

has been fixed with a local supplier (Ökostrombörse Salzburg) and the supply with green

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electricity has started with January 1, 2008. In order to achieve also the intended improvement

of energy efficiency in buildings the tenderer agreed to service the local enterprises in trade and

industry to identify saving potentials and to assist them in the implementation of necessary

steps.

Also the refurbishment of the Polytechnical School has been already completed by the end of

October 2007 and was chosen to be presented in the best-practice brochure (see page 24/25 of

the Austrian brochure). An energy saving of 40 % could be reached (energy performance before

refurbishment: 161 kWh/m²a; after refurbishment: 65 kWh/m²a). The main problem during the

refurbishment was the insulation of the floor. The municipality decided to insulate only that parts

which are not parquet-floor. Otherwise the refurbishment would have been too expensive.

Further, the energy consulting for private households has been continued. Once a month the

citizens of Thalgau have the possibility to seek for energy consulting for free at the town hall.

Altogether 11 consulting have been realised (3 in the period from August 2007 to January 2008)

– this corresponds to an average of 2.1 consulting per 1 000 inhabitants. Compared to the

average figure for the entire province of Salzburg (2.2 consulting per 1 000 inhabitants) this

activity can be seen as quite successful.

In order to visualise the potentials of thermal renovation the municipality, in cooperation with a

local provider of a thermo-cameras, also offered thermal imaging for private households.

Thermal images of 8 private buildings could be made although the winter was quite warm in

Salzburg. Following this action the municipality organized in spring an information evening for

these citizens to inform them about energy efficient renovation.

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Figure 8: Thermal images from houses in Thalgau

SIR has prepared a concept for the scheduled electricity saving campaign for private

households and communal buildings. The original idea was to find approx. 5 owners of private

households and few communal buildings that are willing to save electricity just by changing their

behaviour for one year. After discussions with the "Energieberatung Salzburg" (energy

counselling service of the provincial government) and the Salzburg AG (local energy supplier)

the concept contains now following steps:

- detailed measuring of all electronic equipment in the house for a period of two weeks

- preparation of a list with possible measures

- determination of saving potential just by changing the behaviour

- information of dwellers/employees

- implementing the measures by dwellers/employees for a period of 2 or 3 weeks and

measuring

- publication of the results and experiences

In March 2008 the next meeting with the municipality took place. If the municipality agrees with

this concept they can start to find suitable households (preferably 3 - 4 persons per household)

and communal buildings. The campaign will be implemented in summer 2008 in cooperation

with the regional utility Salzburg AG.

Status in Germany

In Eggesin the stakeholders' willingness to participate in a full-day workshop on the

development of an implementation plan turned out to be not sufficient. As also experienced in

terms of the preparation of the German best practice brochure the population is particularly

reserved and hardly to motivate to get involved in a participation process. To balance the

missing inputs from the stakeholders the staff of the Berlin Energy Agency intensified its

exchange with the representatives of the Eggesin community. The latest meeting was held in

January 2008 and was dedicated to the discussion of the implementation of the concepts of

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measures and the progress of demonstration and pilot projects. Meanwhile several activities

have been set to accomplish some of the measures identified for Eggesin:

- Check-up of communal buildings which exceed the energy benchmark – with the priority on the lighting systems of the school buildings

The caretaker of the schools in Eggesin has gathered information about the lamps used in the

buildings. Most of the lamps used comply with the T 8 standard.

In October 2007 the BEA made a site visit in several schools of the city of Eggesin where the

installed lighting systems have been checked. The lighting was in a good state. That is, why an

exchange of T8-tubes with T5 by installation of adapter systems could be recommended. The

Berlin Energy Agency asked two lighting contractors (Eurolux and econlux) whether they were

interested to submit an offer. However, they both rejected. The reasons were on the one hand

the low using hours estimated between 800 and 1.000 h/a and on the other hand the high rate

of 36 W tubes which provide a lower saving potential in comparison with longer 58 W tubes. The BEA gave the community of Eggesin a description summary and data of several

manufacturers of adapter systems.

- Check-up of communal residential buildings which exceed the benchmark

The housing company of Eggesin used the provided benchmarks to check some buildings with

high marks. Some results were:

o In one block existing dormers were additionally insulated and proofed as a construction defect

o The housing company implemented consumption based billing in its last block without that system to increase the motivation of the tenants in energy saving

o One block was connected to the local district heating system (based on wood chips)

o The relatively new buildings (construction year 1994) in Ziegelbergstraße with noticeable high benchmarks were checked one after the other and construction defects were resolved step by step.

The search and evaluation for energy controlling tools for the communal public buildings of

Eggesin was carried further. As a responsible person of the city administration was not

appointed, the calculation tool was still not selected yet. Implementation of energy efficient

environmental pumps

In case of change energy efficiency pumps with energy label "A" were installed.

- Field test: Reduction of the heat energy consumption through electronic thermostatic valves in multifamily residences

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The field test for the introduction of single electronic thermostatic valves in Berlin was set in

August and September 2007. Three housing companies had selected different multi-family

houses. Tenants received an information letter with information about the process of the field

test. In September installation companies implemented the electronic controlled thermostatic

valves in each selected apartment. After the installation the tenants were briefed.

The corresponding consumption data was collected for two years in Wittstock and one year in

Berlin. Results of the field test in Berlin could be expected at the earliest after the heating period

in spring 2008. Nevertheless first experiences and results could be described as follows:

o The implementation was technically without problems

o Some older tenants had problems with the handling so that a few exemplars had to be rebuilt.

The result of the energy savings until now is not very representative. Only the data of GWV

Wittstock could be used for the evaluation. In these two buildings small energy savings of 6.5%

and 10.5% could be achieved. However, these numbers do not necessarily represent the

potentially achievable savings. The evaluation of at least one more accounting period in

Wittstock as well as evaluations of the data of Berlin would be essential for a well-founded

statement.

- Regularly energy saving tips for households in the communal gazette

Monthly tips on energy saving were published in the local gazette in 2007. The topics have

been: “energy efficient use of washing machines” and “information all around energy efficient

cooking”. These activities also will be continued.

- Participation in the Dena initiative "efficient use of electricity in private households"

The information material is placed in the new building of the city administration.

- Presentation of regional and national good and best practice examples

As described in WP5

- Cooperation with the local “architect's round table” in Eggesin

Representatives of the community of Eggesin approached participants of the local “architects'

round table” several times. There seems to be substantial interest on energy topics but no date

could be arranged until now. Representatives of the community will continue in approaching this

important group of stakeholders in order to organise special events for information on energy

saving topics.

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As the decision for the implementation of some energy counselling tools on Eggesin's

communal website was made lately, the BEA completed the planned handbook with energy

saving tips (to download) and the calculation tool. It will be published on the website in autumn

2008.

The scheduled individual energy counselling for households or owners of one- or two-family-

were carried out in June by the BEA.

Status in Slovenia

In order to evaluate the concept and to select the most important measures for implementation

in WP6 a national workshop has been held in April 2007 in Jesenice. A draft implementation

plan for pilot projects in Jesenice was prepared and discussed at the transnational workshop in

Ljubljana (October 2007).

Following the conclusions from the transnational workshop a final implementation plan for pilot

projects in Jesenice with detailed phases and activities for the implementation in the following

months was prepared.

The first selected pilot project to be implemented in the municipality of Jesenice is the "Website

benchmarking": "Website benchmarking" is an umbrella name for a set of measures using

internet for communication with the target group: building owners (incl. users, tenants) and/or

building managers in order to stimulate EE renovation projects in the building sector in Jesenice

and to facilitate the use of available municipal co-financing instruments and other national

supporting instruments.

The main elements of the benchmarking website are:

- Information about EIE EffCoBuild project

- Communication with end users & building managers

- FAQ about heating and energy savings

- Promotion of measures in support to “RUE in over 150 kWh/m2 buildings”

- List of 40 buildings on Google map

- ranking of these buildings by energy consumption on "click"

- energy performance certificate available

- IR thermographs

- RUE measures identified (energy audit)

- Best practice cases in buildings restoration

- Financing opportunities

- further advice options for households

- http://www.jeko-in.si, working link

The implementation of this pilot project started in November 2007. The majority of the web site was done February 2008 and then the intensive promotion took place.

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http://www.jeko-in.si/

http://www.jeko-in.si/index.php?i=179


Figure 9: Starting page of benchmarking tool

Status in Slovakia

Slovakia’s community Šaľa decided to step out of the project. In an official letter to ÖGUT as

project coordinator, the mayor of Šaľa – Mr. Martin Alföldi explained the reasons for this

decision:

- lack of human recourses to complete the project and to move on with the necessary and

required commitment and pace

- lack of support by the Regional Energy Agency (REA), where also high personnel

fluctuation was one of the hurdles to overcome the problems and move on

Hence, no project was implemented in Slovakia.

WORK PACKAGE 7: DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS

The leader of the WP7 was ÖGUT.

In order to facilitate internal information exchange the communication platform “sharehouse” has

been set up in. This tool served as virtual office where all project partners had easy access to

relevant documents, reports, presentations and papers etc. The share house was regularly

updated uploaded with new documents elaborated within the project. In order to make the

projects' findings and results available for the general public a project website has been set up

(www.effcobuild.eu). The site contains also public reports elaborated during the project. The

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http://sharehouse.wienfluss.net/_help/aboutsharehouse.html



website was extended by presentations of the best practice examples and the best practice

brochures. The site was regularly updated and new reports or results presented on the website

are additionally announced by ÖGUT's electronic newsletter.

Figure 10: Screenshot of the project website

Further information dissemination activities have been undertaken by the communities

themselves and started to prepare articles for communal and regional newspapers. In particular,

the Austrian partners have promoted the practice brochure in SIR's regular newsletter "SIR-

INFO". Further the opportunity to get a thermograph for free was promoted in the communal

gazette (Thalgauer Gemeindenachrichten, October 2007). The initiative of the community of

Thalgau to reduce energy consumption and climate pollution by renewable energy projects and

has been disseminated at the website of the clearing and regulation agency for green electricity

(OeMAG), the journal of the league of towns (Die Österreichische Gemeinde-Zeitung - ÖGZ)

and the Austrian Press Agency (APA) so far. Here are some examples:

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Figure 11: APA press release

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Figure 12: Press release Thalgau Gazette

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Figure 13: Screenshot of the web press-release from the OeMAG The German partners have put the focus on the publication of energy saving tips in the local

gazette and the search for best practice examples in terms of one-family-houses.

In Slovenia an article to promote energy efficiency issues was published in the magazine

"Gorenjski glas", October 2007 (article about Mr. Noc as a municipal councillor, who is

supporting energy efficiency by professional and municipal work) and an article to promote the

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EffCoBuild project published in the magazine GRADIM, no 9, February 2008 (back issues

available at the mtb website. Further, a paper to promote the EffCoBuild project was prepared

(December 2007) and accepted for CIB W70 Conference – Edinburgh planned in June 16-18,

2008.

EffCobuild also was presented and promoted by a lecture on Energy saving in buildings, in the

frame of the workshop Obnovljiva in učinkovita raba energije za Slovenijo, held in Ljubljana,

Friday, December 7, 2007, hall DSRS, Šubičeva 4 (120 participants); by a lecture at Strokovni

posvet »Residential buildings – actual news«, Wednesday, November 28, 2007, Hall

Slovenijales, Dunajska 22, Ljubljana (90 participants) and by a lecture at a national workshop

on Energy efficient buildings in whole life-cycle, on November 23, 2007 in Ljubljana, ZRMK

Building (22 participants).

WORK PACKAGE 8: COMMON DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

The leader of WP8 was ÖGUT. The work package contained mainly three types of tasks:

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http://mb-tech.si/


Task 1: Contribution to the development of online information systems under EC management

Upon request of the EC updates of the fact sheets and summary slides have been prepared

and delivered to the respective departments in the Executive Agency.

Task 2: Participation at Contractors' meeting / Task 3: Contribution to the preparation of

common presentation materials related to EIE actions.

In order to represent the project in the scientific community and to have an information

exchange with other contractors and the EC, upon request of the EC, the coordinator ÖGUT

took part in the contractors' meeting in Brussels in February 2006 and November 2007 as well

as in the CM meeting in Lyon in November 2006.

Information materials and inputs requested by the IEEA were delivered in the run-up to the

event.

3.2 List of deliverables

During the course of work, all the meetings, outcomes, reports, drafts, concepts and plans had

to be the documented and presented in the form of the deliverables. This was not a pure control

mechanism, but rather help for the participant to ensure that they are on track with the different

work packages and have a better overview of the steps completed and those still open.

Table 2: Updated list of submitted deliverables of the action

D N° WP N°

Deliverable Type of deliverable

Size and form *

Language

Target group

Lead participant

Dissemination level

Sub-mission deadline

D1 1 Trans-national Start workshop

Workshop

1 day, all project partner participating, approx. 15 person

EN consortium

ÖGUT RE -

D2 1 Report on trans-national Start workshop

Electronic file

Written form, approx. 15 pages

EN consortium

ÖGUT RE PR 1

D3 2 work plan with detailed methodology for the expert interviews

Installed on project website

1 Work plan EN consortium

All partner RE PR 1

D4 2 Interview protocols

Electronic file

10 interviews for each (4) pilot community

EN consortium

All partners RE PR 1

D5 2 Summary and Conclusions of the interviews, SWOT

Published on project website

Written report EN Consortium, decision maker in pilot

Each “country lead partner”

PU PR 1

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D N° WP

N° Deliverable Type

of deliverable

Size and form *

Language

Lead Target Disse Sub-participant group minat mission

ion deadline level

analyses communities

D6 1 1st progress report

Electronic file

Written form EN Consortium and Commission

ÖGUT RE PR 1

D7 3 4 reports on the total energy demand and the energy demand in buildings

Electronic file

written reports for each (4) pilot community, approx. 15 pages

EN Consortium, decision maker in pilot communities


PU PR 2

D8 3 4 reports on the saving potentials in the buildings, including of description of methods of calculation

Electronic file

written reports for each (4) pilot community, approx. 15 pages

EN Decision maker, building owner, citizen


PU PR 2

D9 3 4 national workshop for stakeholder to discuss the saving potentials

1 workshop at each (4) pilot community

Approx. 15 stakeholder at each workshop

local Stakeholder

Community + each “country lead partner”

RE -

D10 3 4 reports on national workshop for saving potentials

1 report for each (4) national workshop


EN Consortium


RE PR 2

D11 3 4 Poster to demonstrate/visualise the energy saving potentials

Coloured Poster

Approx. 200 posters for each (4) pilot community

Local & EN

Citizens

Each pilot community

PU PR 2/IR

D12 4 4 national workshops on concept for measures


1 day, approx. 15 stakeholder

Local Stakeholder

Community + each “country lead partner”

RE -

D13 4 4 report on national workshop for measures

1 report for each (4) national worksh


EN Consortium


RE IR, SK missing

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D N° WP


of deliverable

Size and form *

Language


ion deadline level

op

D14 1 2nd Progress report

Electronic file


ÖGUT RE PR 2

D15 4 4 draft concept of instruments, measures and actions

1 concept for each (4) pilot community

Written concept EN Consortium


RE IR

D16 4 Trans-national workshop for draft concepts

1 workshop

All country lead partners, two days, experts from com-mutinies, approx. 10 participants

EN Country lead partner

REA RE -

D17 4 Report on trans-national Workshop for draft concepts

Electronic file


EN Consortium

REA RE IR

D18 4 4 Final concepts of instruments, measures and actions

1 concept for each (4) pilot community

Written concept Loc+ EN

Consortium


PU IR, SK missing

D19 5 4 Documentation of the 10 “best of” examples

Electronic file

Approx. 40 pages for each (4) pilot community

Loc+ EN

Consortium, Media


PU FR

D20 6 4 national workshops to evaluate the final concept for measures and selection of pilot project


1 day, approx. 15 participants

Local Stakeholder, representatives of communities


RE -

D21 1 Interim report

Electronic file


EN Consortium and Commission

ÖGUT RE PR 3

D22 5 4 Brochures of the 10 best of examples

Printed brochure

Approx. 40 pages for each (4) pilot communities, app. 500 printed pieces per

Local EN

Decision maker, building owner, citizen


PU FR

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D N° WP


of deliverable

Size and form *

Language


ion deadline level

brochure

D23 6 4 draft plans for implementing the pilot projects

Electronic file


EN Stakeholder, representative of Communities


RE FR (joint with D 26)

D24 6 Trans-national workshop to introduce & discuss the draft plans for the pilot projects and recommendations to improve them

1 workshop

Participating country lead partner and experts from the communities (approx. 10 participants)

EN Country consortium, stakeholder

BCEI ZMRK

RE -

D25 6 Report on Trans-national Workshop for pilot projects

Electronic file


EN Consortium

BCEI ZMRK

RE PR 3

D26 6 4 Final plan for the implementation of pilot projects

Electronic file

Written form, approx. 20 pages for each (4) pilot community

EN Stakeholder, representative of the Communities, citizens


PU FR

D27 1 3rd Progress report

Electronic file


ÖGUT RE PR 3

D28 6 4 pilot projects

1 pilot project in each (4) pilot community

Implemented project (e. g. energy refitting of building)

Stakeholder, representative of the communities, citizens


PU FR

D29 7 Final project report

Electronic form, also in PDF for public download

Written form, approximately 150 pages

EN Stakeholder, representative of the Communities, citizens

ÖGUT PU FR

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D N° WP


of deliverable

Size and form *

Language


ion deadline level

D30 7 Project website, which permanently documents the interim results and all deliverables.

Web site, serves as information & communication platform for project partners, stakeholders, citizen & media

Web site with all relevant documents and results available to download

EN, local

Project partner, stakeholder, citizens, media

ÖGUT PU Online

3.3 Review of impact of the action

In order to track the implementation of the different steps, a number of performance indicators

were tracked. Table 3: Review of performance indicators

Performance indicator

Quantification

Interviews of experts

Complete and in-detail answered questionnaire by 10 relevant experts from each community. The interview partner must consist of at least 5 different groups of actors, such as representatives from the local administration entities, regional or national administration entities, building (refurbishing) companies, architects, financing institutes, building owner

Summary of the existing and suggested measures

At least 12 measures/instruments/activities will be analysed for each (4) pilot communities. Detailed SWOT-analyses for the measure.

Detailed knowledge of the energy saving potential in the building sector in each pilot community

Written report on the total energy demand and the energy demand in buildings, divided in different types of buildings in GWh/a and by primary energy sources.

Written report on the energy saving potentials for the several building groups, such as “one family houses”, apartment houses, panel blocks, public buildings), in GWh/a, as well as a detailed description of the method of calculation and the sources

Distribution of the information on the saving potentials

Designing of a poster, 200 posters printed in each (4) community, to be distributed at well frequented sites by the community administration and stakeholders.

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and receiving feedback from the stakeholders

Workshop with at least 15 stakeholders from the community, at least one representative from the local administration entities, regional or national administration entities, building (refurbishing) companies, architects, financing institutes, building owners.

Written report on the workshop and the feedback of the stakeholders.

Work out draft concepts of measures to increase the implementation of energy efficiency measures in buildings

The concept includes minimum 12 measures and at least ¾ of the stakeholders in the community agree with the community.

The measures address following sectors:

- awareness building for the citizens, - distribution of know-how on energy efficiency technologies to relevant stakeholders, - innovative financing methods, - improvements in public buildings, as they are opinion leaders - increasing the assortment of products and services for energy efficiency of the local companies

Workshop with at least 15 stakeholders of the community, at least one representative from the local administration entities, regional or national administration entities, building (refurbishing) companies, architects, financing institutes, building owners.

Improve the draft concepts of measures

Written statement (feedback and recommendations) to each concept draft by the partners of the other countries.

Final concept for each community, the concept has to include min. 10 measures to support energy efficiency measures in the community. For each measure, a work plan for implementation and the estimated effect (number of buildings, where efficiency measures will be induced, number of citizens to be addressed ...) will be developed.

Improve the awareness of the citizens for the saving potentials in the community and the technical options

Media events: at least 3 articles in the local print media concerning the project idea, the saving potentials and the concept of measures.

Brochure with local “10 best of” examples: min. 10 local best practice examples in the communities region. Each example will be described at 4 A4-pages, including photos, main figures of the result and text. Min. 500 brochures will be printed for each community and distributed to interested citizens by the stakeholders.

Implementation of a pilot/demonstration project

Workshop national: with at least 20 stakeholders of the community, at least one representative from the local administration entities, regional or national administration entities, building (refurbishing) companies, architects, financing institutes, building owners.

Workshop trans-national: participation of all country lead partners.

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Detailed presentation of each planned pilot project

The pilot project must fulfil the following criteria: - Its effect must address a significant part of the community buildings

- More than 50 % of the citizens will be informed by the pilot

measure/action and the results

Dissemination of the results

- 3 national workshops, each a whole day, approx. 15 relevant stakeholders participants:

- 3 trans-national workshops, each a whole day (see above) - Media: min. 3 print articles in each (4) community - Poster of saving potentials and brochure (see above) - Establishing of an own project website (e.g. www.effcobuild.eu) to

secure an optimised communication among all project partners (internal pages) and to distribute all results to the citizens and other communities interested to become Energy Efficiency Communities

3.4 Success stories Austria:

• Since the planned contracting model did not prove successful, the project team decided

to take new measures and made an agreement with the “Ökostrombörse” (association

that deals with green energy) for supplying the community buildings with green energy.

• The energy savings after the refurbishment of the Polytechnical School in Thalgau were

really impressive (40%).

• In the private building sector a lot of awareness was created, especially by offering the

house owners a free thermograph of the house which can afterwards be used for

refurbishment or other measures to increase efficiency

Germany:

Field test: Reduction of the heat energy consumption through electronic thermostatic valves in multifamily residences The intention of the field test was to evaluate the cost-efficient reduction of heat energy

consumption in existing buildings by installing electronic controllable thermostatic valves. The

valves promise energy savings of 10 – 25% for relatively low investment prices. For this reason

388 thermostatic devices (for 355 radiators) were installed and the corresponding consumption

data collected for two years in Wittstock and one year in Berlin. Additionally the handling and

acceptance by tenants was evaluated. The tenants were informed about the project and the

technology and were asked to fill in a questionnaire before the installation and after the first

heating period.

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Most of the tenants of the participating households already tried to save electrical energy at

home and were aware of the means to save energy. Still some tenants showed antipathy

against the new technology – especially older people objected the electronic devices. It has

become obvious that the acceptance and the willingness of tenants to take part in a technical

field test depend on the voluntary character of the project. The differences in results between

Wittstock and Berlin make this clear.

The tenants in Wittstock were well informed by the housing company and introduced to the

technology by the craftsmen. As a result no bigger problems occurred with the handling (7 –

25%). Although the expectation to save heat energy is only 44 – 70 % most of the tenants find

the usage of the devices suitable for everyday use. Also a feeling of higher comfort is a result of

the thermostatic valves. It can be concluded that especially younger or mid-aged families are

very satisfied with the handling, the higher comfort and the possibility to lower their energy

costs.

The result of the energy savings until now is not very representative. Only the data of GWV

Wittstock could be used for the evaluation. In these two buildings small energy savings of 6.5%

and 10.5% could be achieved. However, these numbers do not necessarily represent the

potentially achievable savings. The evaluation of at least one more accounting period in

Wittstock as well as evaluations of the data of Berlin would be essential for a well-founded

statement.

Slovenia:

For the first time a website benchmarking on energy saving potential in the building sector was

offered in Slovenia. This increased not only the general awareness, but linked different actors

into networks for exchange of experience.

Some municipal actors decided to develop an adjusted form of contracting for the purpose of

renovation of the worst apartment buildings in Jesenice. Two preliminary meeting were done in

late spring of 2008: with the heat producer Enos, municipal councillor, producers of insulation,

PV panels, institutes, energy advisors, building contractors and Eco fund. The energy saving

potentials demonstrated at Web-site benchmarking home page at Jesenice was a successful

motivation for the creation of a pilot project of low energy / passive house standard building

renovation.

4. Lessons learnt

4.1 Management

The project management coordinated by ÖGUT-Austrian society for environment and

technology was responsible for the organization and preparation of the workshops, the

maintenance of the project webpage www.effcobuild.eu and the information flow via the project

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coordination platform http://sharehouse.wienfluss.net/. For the project coordination no serious

problems were identified.

Austria: Several project workshops were held in the context of EffCoBuild to find out which

measures the municipality should implement to increase the energy efficiency in Thalgau. The

workshops were easy to organise and the invited people were happy to come and to discuss.

But it got difficult when someone should shoulder responsibility for a certain project. If people do

not volunteer for a particular task the only chance is to convince them by talking about the

advantages of the project. Unfortunately there is no other method. When preparing the next

project, the proposer should ensure that there is a reasonable number of deliverables and the

content of the deliverables should be defined very clear. In this project sometimes the

deliverables were too similar.

Germany: The lead partner in Germany (BEA) analysed the structural problems as the

geographic situation of Eggesin (close to the border) and the distance between Berlin and

Eggesin as main struggles for an easy communication. Furthermore it was difficult to motivate

financial stakeholders for the project and to convince the citizens for aspects like energy

consumption. The scope of the deliverables was considered as very ambitious but too

extensive.

Sovenia: No problems have been reported

Slovakia: As reported the municipality of Šaľa stepped out of the project due to communication

difficulties with the regional energy agency REA. As learning effect of the project an open

discussion about existing problems at an earlier time could have prevented these problems.

4.2 Communication and Dissemination

Due to the 2 ½ year period of the project it seemed to be difficult that one project officer is in

charge for whole project. But despite those circumstances there was no problem being

communicated with the EACI. Concerning the interim absence (vacation, etc.) of the project

officer it would be useful to have on substituting person at the EACI who has the competence

for answering project related questions.

It appeared as well that there was some miscommunication between the REA and the

community Sila. Although it was not the main reason, it was certainly one of the influencing

factors of the community of Šaľa to take the decision of stepping out of the project.

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4.3 Common Dissemination Activities

Upon request of the EC the progress-, interim- and final report and the deliverables have been

submitted successfully and timely to the EC. Information materials and inputs requested by the

IEEA were delivered in the run-up to the event.

4.4 Conclusions Austria:

o Simplification of the tender process: The realization of the tender was difficult to

develop for a small community. After the announcing of the tender it came out that

there were few interested companies because of the complex combination of energy

supply and „performance contracting”. Above all the public buildings were in good

condition so it came clear that it would not very profitable for the contractors. Finally

the decision was made to have the community supplied only with renewable energy.

o Selection of the partner companies: It was hard to get in touch with companies. But

recently the politicians of the municipality got invited by SONY for a conversation

concerning energy. The output was that energy is a big topic for SONY because of

the costs. SONY in Thalgau is the most energy efficient plant of all SONY-plants in

the world! At the moment the plant in Thalgau gets an extension. In autumn, when

the building is ready, the local energy team is invited for a tour in the plant. This

could be a chance to get SONY as a partner for energy efficiency and as it has a

good practice example to attract other companies.

o Project preparation – deliverables: When preparing the next project, the presenting

party should ensure that there is a reasonable number of deliverables and the

content of the deliverables should be defined very clearly. In this project sometimes

the deliverables were too similar.

Germany: o Pilot community: The aim of establishing a pilot community regarding energy

consumption in the building sector with the Community of Eggesin as the actor

objectively seems to be not achieved because the undertaken actions and measures

were not very ambitious or innovative.

o Information level: It could be seen that small communities like Eggesin need support

of experts regarding the topic energy efficiency. People and also the stakeholders

were generally well informed through media like TV and press. But the details and

the structural matters are unknown or not familiar. For this purpose the EffCobuild

project was a start to sensitise the stakeholders and several citizens as multiplicators

for the future.

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o Decrease of energy consumption: The big challenge for the municipality in future will

be to support their inhabitants to reduce their energy consumption and thus their

costs especially for private building owners and households. The municipality

should increase its activities and build up a network with other municipalities in the

region to implement measures by low costs. Joint projects could be energy

commissary, mobile energy counselling, or CO2-reducing plan for the region.

All communities were pleased to have had the chance of participating in the EffCoBuild Project

and thus make the first steps into increasing the energy efficiency in their municipalities. The

lessons learnt will help in future projects that for sure will come, because it is clear that it’s

everybody’s responsibility to contribute to more efficient energy consumption. The citizens of

Thalgau, Eggesin, Šaľa and Jesenice are convinced that even small changes in their behaviour

can have big effects.

The network established through the project strengthens the participants’ capacity in the future

to implement the pilot projects that were commonly prepared. The energy savings and the use

of renewable energy sources after the project’s implementation will increase economical and

environmental benefits for the regions and the citizens. The four communities of Thalgau,

Eggesin, Šaľa and Jesenice agreed to extend their communication to cooperate and to motivate

other municipalities to reduce their energy consumption.

In the future more communities around Europe will take the chance to go through this

experience as well and use the existing network between the municipalities, the stakeholders

and the citizens participating in the Effcobuild-project.

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