PSA Notes

RINNOVATE intro

Project title

RINNOVATE! - Embedding integrated energy performance specifications and design in building renovation

One sentence description

Describe in one sentence your project. Maximum 200 car

RINNOVATE is about transforming every building renovation project in a rentable energy investment for all parties: owners, billpayers, builders, suppliers, consultants, present and future citizens.

Slogans

Make every building renovation a profitable ESCO

Innovation is bringing an integrated view of energy performance into renovation

Clever ones get the most out of energy-smart renovations

Lead by example, search by example.

Duration, start date, end date

RINNOVATE has a planned duration of 36 month (estimate start January 2012).

Summary

Provide a general description of the project, outlining its global aim, concrete objectives and actions. Maximum 2200 car is being proposed for IEE funding as an Integrated Initiative for Energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings (10.4.3 Energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings).

The upmost goal of RINNOVATE is to significantly contribute to trigger a market change, making energy performance evaluation commonplace when selecting and awarding renovation projects in public and private, commercial and residential buildings.

RINNOVATE partners share the view that among principal barriers to action, are:

• solutions, products, tools and expertise are available, but not connected, integrated, easy to understand and reach.
• insufficient diffusion/use of appropriate investment calculation that influence economic reasons, namely economic benefits, that play a main role in investment decisions of private owners.
• short-term orientation (not looking any further ahead than five years at most); short-sighted behaviour affects both demand and supply side, owners and suppliers and commercial operators
• perception that the elaboration of integrated renovation specifications/terms of reference is difficult because it needs initiate cooperation processes.
• difficulty to identify, quantify and compare the impact of the range of materials, technologies and solutions that can be used to improve energy efficiency because of the great diversity of building form, size, use, location.

In order to tackle these barriers RINNOVATE partners work on three sides: - demand side (owners, public and private) - supply side (material, component and service suppliers) - renovation consultants, designers, practictioners (in private and public sectors)

RINNOVATE grounds on existing best practices, project results, networks, knowledge base.

RINNOVATE will:

• gather a community of energy experts around the issue of the integration of energy measures in the specification and design of renovation works; this community will be requested to comply with a professional/ethical code of conduct. RINNOVATE will give to this community a place and tools for training, exchanging knowledge, publicising achievents, and to get in touch with potential customers and suppliers.
• Create a competence kiosk for owners that need commit renovation works. The competence kiosk for owners will be accessible following the RINNOVATE claim "lead by example, search by example". It will address public owners, private owners of buildings and homeowners. The competence kiosk will contain procurement guidelines, return on investment calculators, terms of reference examples, service level agreements, legal cases, training materials, etc. and pointers to experts, suppliers and service undertakings belonging to the RINNOVATE community that operate in the field. It will also be a site for publicising tenders, future renovation works and calling for quotations and proposals.
• Create a competence kiosk for suppliers operating or willing to operate in energy-performing renovation works. The competence kiosk for suppliers will be accessible following the RINNOVATE claim "lead by example, search by example". It will be a showcase for existing solutions and expertise. A standardised set of minimum information will be requested for publishing; which will help benchmarking energy performances and integration options of different solutions. Pointers to experts and fields of implementation, will connect to the other sections.
• Promote the project to its actors and users. RINNOVATE will contact existing networks, projects, communities dealing with EE/RUE and RES/RET in order to promote cross linking and to identify and enroll actors (consultants/experts, owners, suppliers) that are involved/interested in building renovation energy issues. On the other side RINNOVATE will address users (consultants/experts, owners, suppliers) in order to promote the exploitation of RINNOVATE knowledge base, services, information. Specific promotional efforts will be made to foster the propagation of RINNOVATE across European regions, following already existing flows (e.g. Italy-Romania and Italy-Hungary components and construction supplies). Key messages will be: 'Make every building renovation a profitable ESCO', 'Innovation is bringing an integrated view of energy performance into renovation', 'Clever ones get the most out of energy-smart renovations', 'Lead by example, search by example'.
• Participate in common dissemination activities, neworking with other relevant projects under EACI coordination for wider diffusion of results.

Expected results/deliverables

Please describe the main expected results of your project and milestones with implementation dates. The overall expected outcome of RINNOVATE is to increase the number of renovation projects that incorporate energy-performance solutions since early specfication/design stage, resulting in improved energy efficiency of both major and small renovations of public and private, commercial and residential buildings.

RINNOVATE specific outputs will be: - a living community of practice gathering several hundreds of energy professionals, consultants and practictioners with specific interest in energy-performing building renovations (both major and small-renovations, public and private); - a web service (competence kiosks) that brings together proven diagnostics, requirements elicitation and energy/investment calculations and procurement/specification guidance/samples along with a showcase of products, components, solutions, easy to search, reliable in terms of comparisons and integrations; the kiosks will be searchable with a search-by-example engine with interfaces in EN, ES, HU, IT, PT, RO; - online training material and courses; - 8 technical workshops (3 in Spain, 2 in Italy, 1 in RO, 1 in HU, 1 in PT); - 12 communication events (for the promotion and enrollment of actors); - one final conference - result dissemination materials

RINNOVATE competence kiosk for owners

Audit tools

• conduct online energy audit test comparing present situation with renovation options;
• hire an energy-renovation consultant on-line;
• find and hire an energy-renovation consultant to walk through the building and prioritize and integrate improvements

Direct beneficiaries of RINNOVATE outputs

Please describe the direct beneficiaries of your project (eg. Individual consumers, education, industry,commerce, agriculture, manufacturers, housing companies, etc.)

RINNOVATE targets three groups of direct beneficiaries:

• owners of buildings (public owners, private owners of large building stock, homeowners);
• suppliers of materials, components and services for the construction and renovation sector;
• energy and renovation experts, consultants, designers and practictioners.

owners

Public owners benefit from:

• access to a specific knowledge base for improving planning, specification and procurement of renovation works/services;
• complete case/procedure/history/results collections (including contracts and documentation);
• technical models, literature, computational energy/invetment audit and estimate tools;
• training materials;
• experts contacts and access to their showcase/CVs;
• suppliers contacts and access to their showcase/CVs.

Private owners of large building stock share the same benefits as public owners, but will use more financial estimating tools and less procurement cases.

Homeowners will benefit from all kiosk, but they will have also a dedicated section with information and guidance, self-audit tools, comparison of their situation with caseshow, contract samples, return on invstment calculators, online expert advise and the RINNOVATE social trust system.

Suppliers

Within RINNOVATE scope suppliers include:

• materials and component suppliers,
• equipment, tools and systems suppliers
• service suppliers
• builders and integrators

Suppliers benefit from RINNOVATE kiosk competence:

• as a showcase for their products, solutions, services;
• as an integration catalogue for finding missing components, more performing materials, proven solutions, providers and partners;
• as a training and updating centre.

Suppliers will also benefit from access to the owners and the expert community kiosks.

Main Coordinator

Please indicate the main organisation responsible for the implementation of the programme or project. The main coordinator responsible for the implementation of the project is Instituto Tecnológico de Galicia (ITG) (ES), a private not-for-ptofit Foundacion established in 1991 by professional associations (construction architects and engineers, industrial emgineers and others)and the Universities of A Cruñ declared of regional interest by the Galician government. ITG is the Spanish reference point for BREEAM, the Environmental Assessment Method for Buildings.

Partners

Please indicate below other organisations involved in the realisation of this programme or project.

Other partners are: - municipality of A Coruña (ES); - municipality of Ancona (IT); - association of artisan undertakings (IT); - Applus+, (testing, inspection, certification and technological services company, ES); - Trecon, IT (environmental and safety standards assessment company); - University of Ancona, Department of energetics (IT); - Inegi - Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial, (PT); - CCIpR - Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Romania, (RO); - CCIU - Camera di Commercio Italiana per l’Ungheria, (HU) - Managenergy Romania (RO)

Main Contact

Please indicate the contact details of the person making this application. The same person should also sign and return the Partnership Declaration form.

Juan Sobreira Seoane (Director Área de Innovación Tecnológica, ITG)

Total budget

Please provide an overview of the financing of your project. The overall budget of RINNOVATE will be around EUR 2 millions, of which ITG 22% other Spanish partners 22% other Italian partners 31% other partners (RO, HU, PT) 25%

RINNOVATE within IEE 2011 Call Priorities

RINNOVATE is being proposed for IEE funding as an Integrated Initiative for Energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings (10.4.3 Energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings).

Workplan

RINNVOATE is organised in six work-packages:

WP1 - Management WP2 - Build permanent expert network for EE renovation WP3 - Create the EE renovation competence kiosk for owners WP4 - Create the EE renovation competence kiosk for suppliers WP5 - Communication activities (to enroll actors and users) WP6 - Common dissemination activities

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Phases

• Enabling Phase
• Attraction - Community development (inbound)
• Propagation - Snowball and memes (outbound)

Enabling Phase

During the enabling phase, project partners prepare the conditions (a catalyst environment) for gathering a community of interest around a knowledge centre about building renovation for NZEB.

Key elements of this RINNOVATE collaboration development environment are:

• democracy tools for the governance of the community
• a manifest and a code of conduct
• shared basic meanings (ontology)
• tools for technical collaboration among interested parties;
• interface(s) and tools for easing end-users involvement, usage and contribution;
• tools for participation to social networks;
• tools for machine to machine collaboration (semantic web, aka web 3.0)
• a large, qualified, semantic-reach knowledge map
• one (or more) basic procedures for binding renovations and maintenance to NZEB goals
• commonly agreed communication principles

Democracy tools for the governance of the community

Because RINNOVATE roots on the principle of using (or re-using) and valorizing existing know-how, tools, methods, expertise, products, ecc., democracy tools will be chosen among the most adapt ones (following the results included in the deliverable D2.1-Overall Requirements Report from Task 2.1 - Analysis and definition of overall requirements). Possibly this will be one of the few tools actually hosted by the RINNOVATE catalyst (collaboration development) environment, unless the requirement analysis will suggest to use an existing service (such as Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Mediawiki, etc.)

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FormFill::7.3 Overview of Deliverables

Deliverbales are functionally linked to the phases of the project and the key actor(s) addresses. The first group deal

Deliverables from WP2

• 2.1.0 - Overall Requirements Report
• 2.2.0 - ZEBRA Concept Manifest
• 2.4.0 - Handbook for using interfacing and linking with the ZEBRA knowledge base and its tools (with specific section for owners, experts and suppliers)
• 2.4.0 - Comprehensive report of ZEBRA knowledge base cases (downloadable)

Deliverables from WP3

• 3.2.2 - Shared code of conduct of the community and its trust based quality assurance
• 3.2.3 - Shared seminal audit protocol “pathway to ZEBRA”
• 3.2.4 - Training materials: self contained tutorial owners oriented to implement pathway to ZEBRA audits
• 3.2.4 - Training materials: self contained tutorial experts oriented to implement pathway to ZEBRA audits
• 3.2.4 - Training materials: self contained tutorial suppliers oriented to implement pathway to ZEBRA audits

Deliverables from WP4

• 4.3.1 - Report on free pilot ZEBRA collaborative audit services
• 4.3.3 - Report on collaborative renovation design projects

Deliverables from WP5

• 5.1.2 - Report on outbound and inbound connections established
• 5.2.0 - Report on links with pull (demand) and with push (solutions supply) sides established
• 5.3.1 - Technical and contractual guidelines for cross-media working collaboration
• 5.3.2 - Training materials: 3 learning units on cross-media working collaboration (owners)
• 5.3.2 - Training materials: 3 learning units on cross-media working collaboration (experts)
• 5.3.2 - Training materials: 3 learning units on cross-media working collaboration (suppliers)

Deliverables from WP6

• 6.1.1 - Operational communication plan
• 6.1.1 - Communication Kit 1: project presentation
• 6.1.1 - Communication Kit 2: ZEBRA for owners
• 6.1.1 - Communication Kit 2: ZEBRA for experts
• 6.1.1 - Communication Kit 2: ZEBRA for suppliers
• 6.3.1 - Self standing panel to high-visibility targeted events: capturing owners interest
• 6.3.1 - Self standing panel to high-visibility targeted events: capturing experts interest
• 6.3.1 - Self standing panel to high-visibility targeted events: capturing suppliers interest
• 6.3.1 - Specialistic articles on professional printed and/or on-line journals in each participating countries (12 in total)
• 6.3.1 - Press-releases in each participating countries (12 in total)

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Governance of the community

Generally, members are encouraged to communicate with each other, fostering partnerships and cooperations in the emerging markets of semantic collaboration products. Technical discussions, initiatives, standardisation efforts and decisions are made in RINNOVATE groups in order to fulfil its objectives, namely:

   * working groups (WG) work on recommendations for standards, publications, and other topics within the scope of the foundation. WGs are the cornerstones of RINNOVATE's regular work.
   * interest groups connect members with the same interest and work on a topic
   * coordination groups coordinate between groups, BoD and TAG. This role is not needed in the beginning as the TAG takes the role of the coordination group.

Each group has the roles of a chair, members, and an RINNOVATE contact person who is responsible to communicate between the group and RINNOVATE. Chair and contact roles have to be taken by different persons. Writing of recommendations is done by employees of the member organisations. The recommendations may be submitted to and published by existing standards bodies. Published recommendations and ontologies are subject to discussion and will be maintained, documented and improved. Recommendations are accompanied by open-source reference implementations of the core services, allowing verification of the applicability of standards and the creation of products based on these standards. A registry of implementations of the standards and compatible products will be maintained. A counterbalance to the Groups and the Board of Directors is the Technical Architecture Group (TAG), which is limited to technical issues about semantic collaboration architecture and ontologies. The TAG consists of 10 elected or appointed participants (for two years each) and a Chair. The role of the chair can be the same as the role of the director. Workshops: apart from annual General Meetings which deal with organisational matters first, RINNOVATE organises several workshop meetings each year to bring Members and Public together for an exchange of ideas about certain technologies or policies. Web portal: the Foundation manages a website ("www.rinnovate.org", see above) for community and collaboration purposes. Part of this website hosts published ontologies, recommendations and documentation. Venues: meetings of groups, councils and boards are typically hosted by one of the RINNOVATE members (alternating) and located at one of their office sites. Invited Experts: this role may be filled by non-members of RINNOVATE, thus enabling direct collaboration without unnecessary hurdles. Conversely, individuals who are experts in a field may ask a Working Group Chair to be invited to join a Working Group as an Invited Expert.

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ZEBRA

• Providing technical and economic expertise on specific issues related to the deployment of ZEBRA
• Encouraging the re-use of publicly-financed ZEBRA developments or ZEBRA developments specifically targeting public sector requirements
• Linking up national activities and actors in order to facilitate structured and informal dialogues between these
• platform for facilitating cross-border developments

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