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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