Introducing a new toolkit to apply
behavioural insights to energy policy What is the added value of monitoring the flexibility, comfort, and well-being of a
building? How can occupants better be informed about the performance of their
building? And how to optimize a building's maintenance?
The webinar and its roundtable focus on a new generation of instruments and tools
to monitor buildings’ performance, and their link with the Smart Readiness
Indicator (SRI) for buildings as introduced in the EU's Energy Performance of
Buildings Directive (EPBD). Speakers will discuss the added value of the SRI and
shed a light on how it could evolve.
Leonardo ENERGY Webinar Channel
copper.fyi/letube
March 29, 2022
11h00 – 12h30
Federico
Garzia
Eurac
Research
Dimitrios
Ntimos
IES
A new generation of instruments
and tools to monitor buildings
performance María
Fernández
Boneta
CENER
Andrei
Vladimir Litiu
REHVA

Welcome to the Webinar:
“A new generation of instruments and tools
to monitor buildings performance”
March 29, 2022
11:00 – 12:30 h (CET)

Agenda
Topic Beginning End
Presentation of Leonardo Energy platform 11:00 11:05
Welcome and introduction agenda 11:05 11:15
Pitch of 4 EU projects 11:15 11:55
SmartBuilt4EU 11:15 11:25
iBECOME 11:25 11:35
ePANACEA 11:35 11:45
U-CERT 11:45 11:55
Roundtable 11:55 12:15
Questions of the audience 12:15 12:25
Wrap-up 12:25 12:30

Introduction
The webinar and its roundtable focus on a new generation of instruments and tools to monitor building’s performance,
and their link with the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) for buildings as introduced in the EU’s Energy Performance of
Buildings Directive (EPBD).
Federico Garzia
Eurac Research
SmartBuilt4EU
Dimitrios Ntimos
IES
iBECOME
María Fernández Boneta
CENER
ePANACEA
Andrei Vladimir Litiu
REHVA
U-CERT

A new generation of instruments and
tools to monitor buildings performance
hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022

SmartBuilt4EU project
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The Smart Buildings community
This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement N° 956936.

iBECOME hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022
General information
• Call: H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2020-1 → Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: secure, clean and efficient energy
• Topic: LC-SC3-B4E-9-2020 → Support to the coordination of European smart buildings innovation community
• Starting date: 01/10/2020
• Duration: 30 months
Partners
ECTP’s LTPs
3

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Main objectives & activities
SmartBuilt4EU – ECTP Conference - 03/12/2021
•Consolidate & support the
innovation ecosystem in the SB
value chain
•Reference and promote key
innovators and innovations in SB
• Collaborative work
•Break silos, share information
• Identify barriers, opportunities
& best practices for the further
uptake of SB
•Consolidate findings into a SRIA
•Feed the design of future HEu
calls on SB
•Recommendations to policy
makers
•Develop and test tools to
support the deployment of
the SRI
5th activity: communication &
enhance visibility of the SBIC
Join the SBIC!

Examples of promotion activities
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1st projects brochure available here.
2nd projects brochure available here.
• Webinars – in collaboration with Build UP, Leonardo ENERGY, …
• Workshops – Back-to-back with large events
• Projects and technology brochures: promotion of Smart Building
(EU-funded) projects & their outcomes
iBECOME hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022

SmartBuilt4EU Task Forces
6
First draft by Task
Force members
Open
consultation
Consolidation
into final
White Paper
Task Force 1:
Interactions with users
Task Force 2:
Efficient building
operation
Task Force 3:
Interactions with the
external environment
Task Force 4 :
Crosscutting issues
R&I roadmap
Each task force produces a White Paper every 6 months:
iBECOME hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022

Topics addressed in the last semester
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White Paper available: https://smartbuilt4eu.eu/task-forces/
iBECOME hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022
Task Force 1:
Interactions with users
Task Force 2:
Efficient building operation
Task Force 3: Interactions
with the external
environment
Task Force 4 :
Crosscutting issues
TOPIC
B
User-centric building
Integrating smart solutions for
enhanced well-being, inclusiveness
and health of occupants
Optimised building costs
Integrating tools for optimised costs
over full life cycle (incl. BIM, digital
twin, predictive maintenance, AI,
weather forecast, predictive control)
Smart building as enabler of new
energy practices and
communities
Smart buildings & electromobility;
Local Energy communities, Energy
efficiency
Security and privacy
Cyber-security; Data privacy &
protection

Topics currently addressed
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iBECOME hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022
Task Force 1:
Interactions with users
Task Force 2:
Efficient building operation
Task Force 3: Interactions
with the external
environment
Task Force 4 :
Crosscutting issues
TOPIC
C
Responsive end-user
Tools and strategies to give
operational feedback to the end-
user (vs awareness) leading to
behavioral changes.
Smartness to reduce building’s
environmental impacts
Resource efficiency; Environmental
impact management; Integration of
renewable energies.
Data driven indicators
Smart Readiness Indicator;
Data driven methods;
Use of real-time performance data
Education & upskilling
Integration of IT & user-centric
dimensions in curricula of
academic and vocational
education; support to the
digitalization of the construction
sector.

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Contribution to the promotion of the SRI
• Build on SRI developments and findings: support its adoption & uptake across Europe
• Address the lack of clarity in the marketplace about the benefits of smart services/technologies
• Develop:
o Co-benefit indicators associated to SB
o Technology solution packages for SB with a performance assessment
(SRI + co-benefits) -> Demonstrate the added value of SB; Promote a
business case; Foster market uptake.
o Training material and workshops on the SRI & practical testing
iBECOME hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022

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• Development of a Research, Innovation and Policy roadmap
• Support the EC and MS gaining a better understanding of the state of play of the SBICneeds
• Identify & tailor key priorities for EU support to research, innovation & market uptake in smart buildings
• SRIA for smart buildings
• Specify how the identified R&I priorities can be implemented and fostered within an EU R&I framework
• Give a view where to put efforts in the EU R&I agenda (HEu and other EU initiatives)
• Policy recommendations.
• Increase the implementation potential and chances for success of the priority actions, through
the synergies SB4EU’s larger framework of EU and international initiatives
R&I roadmap

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• Join our “Smart Buildings Innovation Community” and actively contribute to the SmartBuilt4EU
project’s activities!
• Project website: https://smartbuilt4eu.eu
• Contact: contact@smartbuilt4eu.eu
Join our community!
Click on the Registration page
or use the QR code:
https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/smartbuilt4eu-project
@SmartBuilt4EU
iBECOME hosted by Leonardo ENERGY, 03/29/2022

The Smart Building
Innovation Community
https://smartbuilt4eu.eu
Thank you for your attention!

Intelligent Building Energy Assets Control for Comfort, Energy
and Flexibility Optimisation
Dimitris Ntimos, IES R&D project manager, coordinator of iBECOME

Home to the largest building physics analytics team in the world
Developers of the Intelligent Communities Lifecycle (ICL) digital twin
75,000+
Projects per year
27
Years of building
analysis
20,000+
Software users
iesve.com

IES’ ICL Digital Twins can be used for monitoring
and management and for predictive modelling
Uncertainty
▪ Buildings are used by humans
▪ Every building is a ‘prototype’
Legacy Systems & Control Technology
▪ Multiple Buildings, Systems & interfaces
Physics-Based Simulation
▪ Traditionally done only in design
▪ Not integrated in Building Lifecycle
▪ Need for multi-year modelling
Use of AI / ML Algorithms
▪ Useful for data analysis, but predictive
capacity is diminished in novel situations
ICL Digital Twins for Buildings
iesve.com

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Reducing bills in a building or facility
through energy savings and demand
response while…
…improving occupant wellbeing and
optimising comfort…
…by leveraging IoT, data analytics and
the efficient control of a building…
…while enabling additional services
such as EV charging optimisation…
iBECOME wants to demonstrate a
combination of novel technologies for:

Why bother?
We spend 90% of our time inside a building1
Poor indoor comfort & wellbeing is a very common
problem
More that 40% of energy and 36% of emissions are
attributed to buildings2
Roughly 75% of our existing EU building stock is
energy inefficient2
Internet of Things (IoT) and big data evolution
Lack of intelligence and interconnectivity in
existing buildings
1. https://www.eea.europa.eu/signals/signals-2013/articles/indoor-air-quality
2. https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/focus-energy-efficiency-buildings-2020-feb-17_en

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The iBECOME virtual Building Management System (Software-as-a-Service)
Data Intelligence
Services
ICT
ICT

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Services
Core
Energy-Comfort Optimisation
Measurement & Verification
Demand Response
Fault Detection & Diagnosis
Predictive Maintenance
Additional
Healthcare Management
EV Charging Optimisation
Car sharing
Can you think more?

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Minimum equipment required
Automation Server
Required to connect to
existing and new BMS-
sensors-Meters
Smart Thermostat
Required to optimise the
heating-cooling
Demand Response
Panel
Required to enable
Demand Response
services
Smart Sensor
Required to monitor and
make predictions

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Key Cloud Software Components
Enterprise Server
Required to connect to
existing and new BMS-
sensors-Meters
iSCAN
Required to analyse data
collected from the
building
Auto Calibration
tool
Required to enable
accurate physics-
simulations on the cloud
API for 3rd Parties
Required to enable 3rd
parties to develop
services

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Building Cloud
iBECOME monitoring and control
Any hardware
Any Service

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Demonstration
Country Crest,
Ireland
Food Processing Facility
Helix Building,
Glasgow
Office
ASP della Carnia,
Italy
Care Home
World Trade Center,
Grenoble
Business Center
Just vBMS installed, No BMS vBMS Combined with retrofits and BMS

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Demonstration in progress: The Helix Building, Glasgow, UK

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Demonstration in progress: The Helix Building, Glasgow, UK
Ground floor
IEQ sensors installed in the building
Biomass boiler, 5 heating zones, controlled via a
digital thermostat/time switch
The plan is to install more sensors, thermostats, smart
sockets, radiator valves and deploy vBMS, e.g.:
-Control heating and optimise electricity use via AI
algorithms
-Provide suggestions and alerts via dashboards
Energy Model in IES-VE

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Helix Building: SRI Results before and after
TOTAL SRI SCORE 55%
IMPACT SCORES
Energy savings on site 52%
Flexibility for the grid and storage 22%
Comfort 60%
Convenience 70%
Wellbeing and health 100%
Maintenance & fault prediction 79%
information to occupants 75%
DOMAIN SCORES
Heating system 46%
Domestic Hot Water 0%
Cooling system
Controlled ventilation
Lighting 73%
Dynamic Envelope
Electricity: renewables & storage
Electric Vehicle Charging 2%
Monitoring & Control 74%
52%
22%
60%
70%
100%
79%
75%
Energy savings
on site
Flexibility for
the grid and
storage
Comfort Convenience Wellbeing and
health
Maintenance
& fault
prediction
information to
occupants
46%
0% ​ ​
73%
​ ​ 2%
74%
Heating
system
Domestic
Hot Water
Cooling
system
Controlled
ventilation
Lighting Dynamic
Envelope
Electricity:
renewables
& storage
Electric
Vehicle
Charging
Monitoring
& Control
Current Estimated after full iBECOME solution

Our targets for iBECOME vBMS
Reduce the energy use and energy bills in a facility by
15%
Reduce Comfort complaints by 20% and improve
Indoor Air Quality by 10%
Improve the smart readiness of buildings by 10% (SRI)
Track, prevent and reduce equipment and operational
faults by 20%
Improve wellness by 20%
Generate revenue by energy savings to invest in
further Energy Conservation Measures

This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020
Programme under Grant Agreement no
894617
Stay Tuned!
ibecome-project.eu
info@ibecome-project.eu
@iBECOME_EU
@ibecome-project

This project has received funding from
the European Union’s HORIZON 2020
research and innovation programme
under grant agreement No 892421
The sole responsibility for the content of this presentation lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.
Neither the EASME nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Smart European Energy Performance Assessment & Certification
María Fernández Boneta –CENER (Project Coordinator)
Webinar “A new generation of instruments and tools to monitor buildings performance”
29 March 2022, 11:00 – 12:30 CET

Why ePANACEA?
https://sepap.epanacea.eu
ePANACEA’s objective ➔ Overcome these challenges by developing an innovative,
holistic, and flexible methodology for Energy Performance Assessment and Certification of
buildings. The methodology will cover relevant technical building innovations and will be
integrated in an online Smart Energy Performance Assessment Platform (SEPAP).
Challenges of current EPCs
• Challenge 1: gap between standard outcomes of EPC schemes and real consumption
patterns
• Challenge 2: lack of accuracy of the building’s energy assessment results
• Challenge 3: poor user awareness related to energy efficiency
• Challenge 4: lack of convergence across the European Union
• Challenge 5: inclusion of smart and novel technologies
• Challenge 6: lack of trust in the market
.

ePANACEA team
KOM, 22&23 June 2020
Project duration: June 2020 – May 2023
Funding: Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation programme)
Next-generation of Energy Performance Assessment and Certification - IA 2019

• The overall methodology concept
aims to develop innovative
approaches for both energy
assessment and certification
schemes, going beyond the state of
the art.
• The SEPAP (Smart Energy
Performance Assessment Platform),
developed under the project, will
integrate modular, flexible and
customisable web based tools,
incorporating innovative techniques
such as inverse modelling and
machine learning.
Overall concept

15
Workshops 5 x 3
REBs
15 case
studies
METHODOLOGY
Final user
needs and
perceptions
Testing and
demonstration
Stakeholders
(policy makers
and industry)
needs
• User-friendliness
• Clarity of information
• Enhanced user
awareness of energy
efficiency
• Occupant Behaviour
patterns
• Instil trust in the market
• Mobilize investments
• Reduce energy
consumption
• Reduce CO2
• Meet objective 2050
• Quantitative impacts
• Building renovation
roadmaps and building
passport
• Technical perspective
• Accuracy
• Cost-effectiveness
• Training
Support from
15 building owners and managers
Building stock: > 7.000
48 institutions; 52 representatives; 23 countries
Triple feedback loop

Three assessment methods
DECISION MATRIX
M1 M2 M3
SEPAP
https://sepap.epanacea.eu
Smart Energy Performance Assessment Platform
Assessment method 3
Assessment method 2
SEPAP
Assessment method 1
“Smart & performance data-driven
building energy performance
assessment “
“Simplified method based on
monthly calculation interval”
“Advanced & automated simulation modelling
based on dynamic simulation for EPCs”
IEA EBC Annex 71
EN ISO 52016-1:2017

BEM
Geometry Constructions
Sensitivity Analysis
Error
check
Thermal zones HVAC & Plants
Internal loads
Measured
calibration data
Run Energy
Simulation
Input data (design documents & sensors)
Weather
data
Control
Calibrated
Model
Identify model
parameters for
improvement
Change
inputs
(calibration
variables)
in ROV
Rev n
Data gathering
Model and run model
Optional
Calibration
Legend:
SEPAP Tool
BEM Calibration

Pre-process of actual building data
NMBE = 0,3%
CVRMSE 1,3%
NMBE = 1,4%
CVRMSE 12,4%

Tools development
SEPAP Tool
SEPAP

End-users perceptions
ePANACEA is
conducting 15
workshops during
the project lifetime (3
per pilot country),
focused on
integration of end-
user perceptions,
needs and feedback.
15 workshops
with end-
users
Which figure do you like better (A or B)? Please click on the figure you prefer.
Which visualization do you like better? (A or B?) Please click on the visualization you prefer.
The presented energy saving tips are useful for me.
"Based on this figure I find it easy to understand where the weak spots in the building
are".
Please, select the additional indicators you think the EPC should include.

Validation and dissemination
ePANACEA is managing 5 REBs covering the whole
European Union through five geographical regions,
comprising European policy makers, certification
bodies, consumer associations, professional
associations and other relevant stakeholders from EU-
27+Norway+UK, involved in the definition and
validation of the assessment methodology.
5 Regional Exploitation
Boards (REBs)
5 REB coordinators
National/regional
stakeholders

Testing and validation
15 case
studies in
5 pilot
countries

Thank you for your attention
For further information: www.epanacea.eu
www.twitter.com/H2020ePANACEA
www.linkedin.com/company/h2020epanacea
contact@epanacea.eu
This project has received funding from
the European Union’s HORIZON 2020
research and innovation programme
under grant agreement No 892421
The sole responsibility for the content of this presentation lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.
Neither the EASME nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

A new generation of instruments and tools
to monitor buildings performance
Leonardo Energy webinar, 29 March 2022, 11h00 – 12h30 CEST
U-CERT project, Towards a new generation of user-centred
Energy Performance Assessment and Certification; facilitated
and empowered by the EPB Center

Andrei Vladimir LIȚIU
Building Performance Adviser
avl@rehva.eu
Executive Director
avl@epb.center

Making the Invisible Visible
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✓ “To measure is to know.”
✓ “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.”
✓ “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and
express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when
you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers,
your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.”
Source: https://physicsworld.com/a/in-praise-of-lord-kelvin/

Amended EPBD 2018: BACS requirements & SRI
5

SRI official webpage
6

SRI support team
7

SRI factsheet March 2022
8

SRI in a nutshell
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✓ Ongoing building performance
✓ People (users/occupants/…)
✓ Energy system

The ongoing digital transformation of buildings
10
“The smartness of buildings should be a means to an end and not a goal in its
own right. Smartness should serve the purpose of providing with a better building
in terms of energy performance, health, convenience, etc. There are some
examples of buildings where technology enthusiasts have gone so far in
automation that the technologies become gimmicks or are so experimental only
the person who installed it knows how to operate it.” stated Stijn Verbeke, senior
researcher at EnergyVille/VITO and University of Antwerp, in an expert interview
on BUILD UP (The European Portal for Energy Efficiency in Buildings). Stijn was the
principal investigator in the first SRI technical support study, the coordinator of the
consortium of the second technical support study commissioned by the European
Commission’s DG ENER and is the coordinator of the ongoing SRI support contract.

U-CERT IN A NUTSHELL
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Horizon 2020 project, September 2019 – August 2022
• Introduce a next generation of user-centred Energy Performance Assessment and Certification
Scheme to value buildings in a holistic and cost-effective manner supported by an EU-wide
training and certification process for building professionals
• Facilitate convergence of quality and reliability, using the EPB standards developed under the
M/480 mandate, presenting the national and regional choices on a comparable basis
• Encourage the development and application of holistic user-centred innovative solutions,
including the Smart Readiness of Buildings (SRI)
• Encourage and support end-users in decision making (e.g. on deep renovation), nudge for
better purchasing and instil trust by making visible added (building) value, using EPC’s
• Strengthening actual implementation of the EPBD by providing and applying insights from the
perspective of all involved stakeholders, facilitated and empowered by the EPB Center

3 TRANSITION PATHS ENVISIONED BY U-CERT
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A full and smooth
implementation of
the EPBD and EPB
standards under
mandate M/480
User centred design for facilitating
and accelerating building
performance improvements
(ranging from behaviour change all
the way to deep renovation)
Leveraging synergies between the
Smart Readiness Indicator for
buildings and the set of EPB
standards for shifting the current
EPC paradigm to an evidence-based
approach e.g. building operational
rating

Visualising
U-CERT’s
endeavour
13

U-CERT Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) digital tool
14

Going farther, together!
15

Going farther, together!
16

CLIMA 2022 U-CERT workshops, May 25th
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ROUNDTABLE

How do you plan to address the quantification
issues? How would you implement those
parameters (practically speaking)?

How can/does SRI create added value in practical
building performance assessment and management
activities?

What are your lessons learnt from
the pilot tests?

What recommendations to make for the future
of the SRI?

Q&A

Wrap-up

Thank you for your attention!
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