7.2.3 Work Package 3 - Develop collaboration across renovation value-chain
| N° of work package: 3 | Develop collaboration across renovation value-chain |
| Duration in months: 8 | Trecon s.r.l. (TRECON) |
Contents
- 1 I. Description of the work:
- 1.1 a) Overview of the Work package:
- 1.2 b) Description of the tasks:
- 1.3 IIa. Outputs of this work package (apart from deliverables):
- 1.4 IIb. Deliverable of this work package:
- 1.5 III. Distribution of tasks of each partner in this work package (Award criterion 5):
- 1.6 Major other specific costs:
- 1.7 Major subcontracts:
I. Description of the work:[edit]
a) Overview of the Work package:[edit]
This workpackage implements the project phase of attraction and development of the community of interest and practice. Work evolves on two linked directions:
- elaborate technical and collaboration guidelines for putting the project concept into practice;
- invite owners, suppliers and integrators to participate to construct the community.
In this third work-package, RINNOVATE partners offer a first elaboration of a code of conduct and a protocol to design credible pathways to NZEB (ZEBRA pathways). An important contribution of RINNOVATE is to build owners and contractors confidence on integrated energy performance investments during renovations and maintenance: credibility is foundamental, because it leads to trust, which is one of the pillars of persuasion. In the RINNOVATE environment we do not have third-party-based traditional approaches for reputation management: no single entity is responsible for collecting, updating, and disseminating the reputation of each member and of the services, products and advice channeled through the community. Instead, each 'service comsumer' records its own perceptions of the reputation of only the services it actually uses, hence a personal evaluation. Collaboration guidelines take the form of a 'code of conduct' to support building confidence through trust and reputation management. The code of conduct is the set of rules outlining the responsibilities of proper practices for individuals and organizations participating to the RINNOVATE community. RINNOVATE is potentially an attractive marketplace for owners, suppliers and integrators; in order to avoid excessive dilution of its mission about renovation toward NZEB it needs some rules. Moreover, reputation is essential to attract homeowners, to propagate ZEBRA to other communities, to attract qualified contributors. Quality and reliability will then be inherent parts of RINNOVATE trust management, that will evolve from a 'seminal' stage (in which project partners take a prominet role) to its mature form, when members will govern the community thoroughly. The protocol to draw ZEBRA plans takes the form of one (or more, if necessary) basic procedure(s) for binding renovations and maintenance to NZEB goals. Only clear, publicly available and largely agreed protocols allow comparing results on a same scale. For instance this refers to expected energy performance improvements as consequence of including a given RET in a renovation plan. RINNOAVTE partners will draw the protocol for assessing a “pathway to ZEBRA”, i.e. evaluating actual energy performances of a given case, establish realistic NZEB target performances in a given period of time, conceive a frame of integrated measures and plan it over reasonable schedule, compute energy and bill returns, compare with alternatives. The protocol will be continuously analyzed, discussed and elaborated further by community members, but until a new version is accepted, the stable, previously accepted protocol will be the rule for community members.
The task of 'enrolling' a core group of members aims at achieving a critical mass to ensure self-sustainability and autonomous metabolism to the community (consequently to the RINNOVATE action after its subventioned period). RINNOVATE partners will select and contact one-to-one public and private owners, suppliers, energy consultants, ESCO/ESPCs, representatives of successful projects to explain why and how to participate to RINNOVATE, and why participating could rewarding.
The group of "early birds" that will join the community will contribute to refine the ZEBRA protocol, on top of which training materials for each target group (owners, suppliers and integrators) will be prepared.
With a complete toolbox available (concept, collaboration rules, technical guidelines and training modules), RINNOVATE partners will promote their action further through targeted training sessions addressing members and persons potentially interested to join the action.
b) Description of the tasks:[edit]
3.1.- Elaborate guidelines for integrating EE/RES in renovation audit, design and planning This task will deliver draft proposals of the code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance and the draft guidelines for conducting the assessment, conceiving, design and planning audits to put ZEBRA at work. The code of conduct will set the essential standards of conduct, performance and ethics for all parties involved and activities performes in the RINNOVATE community framework.
ZEBRA guidelines take the form of a protocol to audit the existing situation of the case uder examination and draw a pathway to ZEBRA which is credible and viable. EU regulations and recent work by standardization bodies (e.g. ISO/50001) will set the extent, limits and milestones of the work. These guidelines will focus on
- intelligibility, verifiability, trusted information exchange;
- prioritize, avoiding any unnecessary additional burdens;
- promote collaboration across disciplines and professional background;
- be cautionary and establish clear responsibilities for claims;
- be focused on ZEBRA purposes; i.e. do one thing and do it well
In fact the pivot is making renovation and maintenance works compose an incremental energy performance jigsaw towards NZEB.
The aim of RINNOVATE code of conduct is to ensure that people and organizations who rely on the expertise, assessment or advice of RINNOVATE community members - must be able to trust us with their expectations, choices and investments. The code of conduct will stress personal accountability for actions and omissions in the practices mediated by RINNOVATE services. It will help the community be conducive to sensible and responsible behaviours.
This Task T3.1 encompasses the following subtasks:
- T3.1.1 - Elaborate the seminal code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance schema
- T3.1.2 - Elaborate the seminal audit protocol “pathway to ZEBRA”
3.2-Build first core of RINNOVATE community of interest
The identification of a first group of participants that will start up the community will start making good use of the contacts collected during the sweeping and screening of relevant digital sources (Task T2.4).
Contacts are linked with ZEBRA benchmarking information set: hence it is possible to choose a suitable distribution among groups, type of projects, products, expertise, building stock, etc.
Contacts from the most relevant items (with respect to ZEBRA) and persons who gave a feed-back after the first contact (when asked to complete the description of their items) will be reached first.
Key motivation and usefulness will be clearly explained in relation to each group (e.g. civil servants involved in public contracting would gain skilled help and access existing libraries of applicable results when drawing terms of references for renovation tenders.
RINNOVATE partners will "stir" the community, helping these first groups of owners, suppliers and integrators begin to interact, with demand side expectedly playing an important role.
During the first stage project partners will stimulate the discussion, refinement and adoption of the code of conduct and the protocol.
RINNOVATE partners will drive the preparation of training modules, that will be submitted for comments and further elaboration to the community. Deliberative process will help people find their way to influence the village and to find it a rewarding place.
Specific training initiatives for learning how to conduct "ZEBRA audits" and draw "pathways to ZEBRA" will take place in all project countries. The idea is contamination, not replication: in fact it is important to overcome parochialism on all sides, demand, supply and integration; learning and practicing a shared mode of operation across regions is the first step to weaken provicialism.
Task T3.2 is implemented by the following sub-tasks:
- T3.2.1 - Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases
- T3.2.2 - Share and elaborate further the code of conduct with community members
- T3.2.3 - Share and formulate the “pathway to ZEBRA” protocol with the community
- T3.2.4 - Train experts, owners, suppliers to audit and design pathways to ZEBRA
IIa. Outputs of this work package (apart from deliverables):[edit]
- 800 contact with experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases
- 400 signatories of ZEBRA code of conduct
- 300 signatories successfully trained (presence)
- 10 training sessions
IIb. Deliverable of this work package:[edit]
- D3.1 Shared code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance
- D3.2 Shared seminal audit protocol “pathway to ZEBRA”
- D3.3 Training materials: self contained tutorial owners, experts and suppliers oriented to implement pathway to ZEBRA audits
III. Distribution of tasks of each partner in this work package (Award criterion 5):[edit]
| Partner | Task(s) for this partner organisation | Related to Task N° |
| FUNITG | Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases; Share and elaborate further the code of conduct with community members | T3.2 |
| INEGA | Collaboration in all steps for the elaboration and sharing of the seminal code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance schema. Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases Organisation of 2 local meetings (30 participants each) for training to audit and design pathways to ZEBRA | T3.2 |
| INEGI | Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases; Share and elaborate further the code of conduct with community members; Share and formulate the “pathway to ZEBRA” protocol with the community Organisation of 2 local meetings (30 participants each) for training to audit and design pathways to ZEBRA | T3.2 |
| TRECON | Participation in all steps for the elaboration and sharing of the seminal code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance schema. Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases . Organisation of 2 local meetings (30 participants each) for training to audit and design pathways to ZEBRA | T3.1, T3.2 |
| APPLUS | Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases;Share and elaborate further the code of conduct with community members;Share and formulate the “pathway to ZEBRA” protocol with the community | T3.1, T3.2 |
| CNAMAR | Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases; Share and elaborate further the code of conduct with community members; Share and formulate the “pathway to ZEBRA” protocol with the community Organisation of 2 local meetings (30 participants each) for training to audit and design pathways to ZEBRA | T3.2 |
| CST | Participation in all steps for the elaboration and sharing of the seminal code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance schema. Select, contact and engage experts, owners, suppliers from relevant projects and cases . Organisation of 2 local meetings (30 participants each) for training to audit and design pathways to ZEBRA | T3.1, T3.2 |
Major other specific costs:[edit]
- Start-up collaboration across renovation value-chain: Tranlsation of: D3.1 Shared code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance 48 pp. EN-ES-PT(€ 1.200,00); D3. 2 Shared seminal audit protocol “pathway to ZEBRA” 48 pp. EN-ES-PT ( € 1.200,00);
- Start-up collaboration across renovation value-chain: Set-up and printing of 400 CDRom (€ 1.200,00) for D3.3 Training materials with self contained tutorial suppliers oriented to implement pathway to ZEBRA audits.
Major subcontracts:[edit]
[List major subcontracts and shortly describe the tasks covered]
CNAMAR will engage and subcontract Mr. Alessandro Angeletti as an expert professionist to support the task regarding all steps of the elaboration and sharing of the code of conduct of the ZEBRA community and its trust based quality assurance schema. Mr Angeletti will be also involved in the CNAMAR training session for experts, owners, and suppliers to perform pathway to ZEBRA audits.
Partners involved will award subcontracts with conference and catering services (to be defined) for logistic support during the training sessions that will be organised in each participating country. The services will cover both conference room rental and audio and video services, coffee break and light breaks (300 participants in total).
Mandatory phrase to keep: The subcontractors identified / to be identified were / will be selected following the provisions of Article II.9 of the Grant Agreement on competitive grounds on the basis of best value for money.