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This document aims at describing the execution plans for the deep renovation for the four demo-cases. Starting from the concepts and preliminary design defined in the D5.2, here the implementation of the renovation packages is reported, considering both the detailed design and technical specifications developed during the renovation process.

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This document is the final deliverable treating the subject of intellectual property right (IPR) management, agreements and exploitation plan of the Expected Results (ER) in the 4RinEU project.

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This document is the final report on the development activities undertaken in T3.2 of the 4RinEU project to deliver the Collaborative Design Platform (CDP) to support planning and design phase. The CDP has been created to support not just the planning and design phase, but all steps of the 4RinEU methodology across the life cycle of a building. The building repository and deep renovation packages can be included as supporting documents in context of the broader process, and various 4RinEU key performance indicators can be implemented and tracked at different stages.

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The deliverable analyses the plans for commercialization and replication of the project exploitable results already on the market or closer to it. For each product, the most relevant elements for the value proposition are summarized and the main customers’ segments to be addressed are considered, deepening the related marketing messages and selling channels. Opportunities linked to the policy and economic contexts are presented in relation to the actions of the plan.

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In this report the results on the monitoring of the four demo cases are collected. Considerations on the outcome of the renovations are addressed as well, taking into account both energy and IEQ aspects.

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4RinEU defines a protocol to reduce “pre-bound” and “rebound” effects on the estimation of energy use in buildings, also considering the fuel poverty issue. As a consequence, the reliability of deep renovation will increase, and the payback time will be certain and shorter. These elements are necessary for increasing the building owners’ and financers’ confidence and, therefore, the rate of renovation.

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This document describes 4RinEU’s development of the hydronic-hub prototype and the correlated testing campaign.

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The report describes the results of Task 4.3 -The case of historic buildings. The presentation begins with general considerations on the topic of Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings.It explains what is meant by historic buildings and which important statements and guidelines at the international level provide orientation for the sustainable treatment of historic assets. A heritage impact assessment for the 4RinEU technologies is also investigated. For the 3 historic building demo-cases in Norway, Netherlands, and Ireland, belonging to three different Geo-clusters,the application of the 4RinEU technologies is tested and the transferability of the results examined.

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The potential renovation rate analysis aims at evaluating the energy and environmental effects of deep renovation, taking results from the replication potential studied in 4RinEU deliverable D4.4. Here, the performances of the renovation packages are combined to the replication potential in specific contexts, namely Agència de l’Habitatge de Catalunya (AHC) and WOONZORG building stocks.
The analysis provides an estimation of the potential savings in energy consumptions and CO2 emissions occurring in case of deep renovation. Moreover, a potential monetary saving due to reduced energy consumption is presented. The deep renovation approach has been compared to non-renovation scenario looking at a 50-years-long period.

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This report contains the description of the methodology which brought to the definition of a structured repository of simulation results. The outputs come from the application of the renovation packages, further analysed in Project Deliverable 3.3, to the different geo-clusters and building archetypes defined hereby.
The subdivision in geo-clusters has been defined dividing Europe into six areas (keeping the division based on National boundaries), according to the features of the residential building stock, the average building performances provided by the law and climatic conditions. In relation to 4RinEU project, each geo-cluster includes either a demo case or an early adopter (EA) building where the renovation packages will be integrated respectively with a real implementation (demos) or a feasibility study.

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This deliverable contains the information needed in order to evaluate the replication potential of 4RinEU renovation methodology in different contexts, in particular referring to Demo owners building stocks.
We provided an overview of the main constraints related to the application of different 4RinEU developed technologies, taking into account their applicability depending on building features.

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A barrier for building owners and investors about to embark on a deep-renovation project is often uncertainty about which technology choices may fit with their building and, in particular, with their specific preferences. One of the core pieces of the 4RinEU project is, hence, a multicriteria ranking tool that shall guide users early in their decision process. This technical note accompanies the implemented ranking-tool prototype and de-scribes its background and usage. It also describes requirements on the underlying repository that assembles most of the information processed in the tool.

The tool described in this deliverable is to be intended as a proof of concept. Individuals interested in testing it may request a trial version by writing to the following address: 4RinEU@eurac.edu

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This deliverable provides designers and specialists the framework to perform analyses in the pre-design phase of a renovation, accessing information on the possible results brought by a deep renovation based on the 4RinEU approach.

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The analysis of regulatory framework at EU and national level and standardization related to 4RinEU technology solutions we included in the deep renovation packages enabled to highlight boundary conditions potentially affecting the project expected impacts. Building energy performance and structural aspects, integration of RES, grid & smart grid related legislation are possible drivers/barriers for the main project objective, i.e. market deployment of deep renovation technologies.

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This document is the final of a series for three documents treating the subject of competence analysis and the identification and management of exploitable results (ER) in the 4RinEU project.

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In this deliverable analysis about market trends, experiences and actors are presented regarding the sectors of the products and services developed in the 4RinEU project. The main sector which has been analysed is the renovation market for residential buildings. This is considered as the principal target market for the results of 4RinEU project. Therefore, trends and data about houses renovations have been presented and analysed at European level and particularly for 4 selected target countries: Norway, The Netherlands, Spain, and Italy.

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This document describes, for each demo case, the process leading to the definition of the
4RinEU renovation concepts including:

• The key features of the buildings
• The renovation needs and the main drivers
• The targets for the renovation (both specific minimum requirements provided by local laws and regulations and 4RinEu targets)
• The procurement procedure followed by the demo owners in case of renovation
• The Gantt of the renovation activities in the three demo cases in coordination with 4RinEU
• The specificities of the renovation concepts

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This report gives a comprehensive summary of available financial instruments that support deep renovation of existing residential buildings on the European level, with in-depth insights to available instruments in Norway, Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Hungary and the UK and Ireland. It gives a good snapshot of the current state of the funding schemes for deep renovation of buildings in these European countries.

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In this report, risk management in deep renovation projects using the technologies and methods developed in 4RinEU is described. The report is prepared for professional owners or managers of dwellings but can hopefully also be of use for building surveyors, designers and contractors as well as less professional building owners.

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Early-Reno stands for Early design methodology for Renewable Optimal use in building renovation process. This methodology has been included into an integrated tool, aimed to support the early decision-making process in case of renovation. The objective of the tool is to suggest the solution for maximising the exploitation of renewable energy sources available on site, while renovating a building. The main target users of the tool are designers and practitioners that have to evaluate the renewable energy potential and its exploitation while planning a renovation project.
The tool is quite flexible, but it has been developed considering the specific boundary conditions and needs of residential buildings (both single and multi family houses), according to the focus of 4Rin EU project.

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In general terms, a Deep Renovation project basically consists on the implementation of a set of actions aimed to reduce the global energy consumption of an existing building, through the renovation of the heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water and lighting systems and the improvement of the energy passive features of the building envelope. It is usually a complex process which involves many stakeholders, goes through several stages, implements a wide and diverse range of technical solutions and must consider a set of technical, economic and human factors with common and ambitious objectives.

Renovation projects are usually approached not as an integral process according to the complexity required but as a service delivery indifferent to the difficulty and multiplicity of the interactions existing between the parties involved and developed activities. This approach may result in the achievement of a sub-optimal global solution, the noncompliance of the defined targets, the increase of the final costs for one or several parties or, in the worst case, the project failure.

The methodology outlined in this document offers a new way of conducting the management of deep renovation projects, defining the barriers and challenges that the building construction industry should address.

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This study aims at developing a smart ceiling fan with the capability of automatically adapt its rotational speed based on the temperature and relative humidity values measured in the room.

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This document describes 4RinEU’s systematic and robust approach towards deep renovation using prefabricated multifunctional timber-frame façade elements. These prefabricated elements integrate building service components that are added to existing buildings by means of the new envelope, improving energy performance.

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This document focuses on the analysis of the adoption of photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies, harvesting solar radiation, at the district level in three demo-cases (located in The Netherlands, Spain, Norway).

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The objective of the guidelines is to define good practices to advise the manufacturers in relation to the sustainability of deconstruction processes. With this aim, specific disassembly approaches to manage the end-of-life of the buildings components, increasing the recycling rate of the construction materials for the proposed technologies, are defined.

Download the report – September, 30 2019

4RinEU short guidelines allow to identify and lower the deep renovation barrier, as well as to increase the stakeholders’ motivation in different EU geo-clusters. The protocol includes the identification of roles, needs and interests of owners, tenants and public authority, being key elements for achieving a successful and efficient implementation, reaching the expected impact in terms of energy savings and increased renovation rate.

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The report presents the audit methodology and the tools developed in the demo cases to reduce ‘prebound’ and ‘rebound’ effect on energy use in buildings, considering fuel poverty issue. The cost-optimal energy audit method couples surveys, measurements and modelling. It is a stand-alone service between the energy management companies and designers, in a wider framework of deep renovation.

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A novel tablet application for iOS, Windows and Android will be developed, able to gather data from the building. The app will allow the user to identify which systems are installed in various rooms (e.g. dimming controls for lighting in a room, room by room heating controls etc.) and ‘tag’ this information so that it can be applied to the operational model at a later date. A database of common equipment will be created, to allow the user to easily tag and to identify the location of plant and equipment that may differ from the original plans and layout of the building. The app will also contain functionality to specify sensor and meter locations in the building.

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