Abstract
The ever-increasing use of building monitoring and control systems brings an opportunity for data-driven approaches in the entire construction sector. Simultaneously, data exchanges and interoperability among data platforms remain a challenging issue and have been placed high on the agenda by the European Union (EU) institutions as crucial elements for enabling the ambitions set forth by the European Green Deal. To this end, the EU is working on two fronts. Firstly, through the Data Act, the EU is developing a new framework to enable the sharing, storage, and processing of industrial data. Secondly, in the building industry, the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive specifies ambitious targets in terms of fair access to and use of buildings data, to facilitate the full interoperability of services and data exchange within the European Union. The MODERATE project is a project funded under the Horizon Europe programme, which aims at improving exchange of building data and interoperable data-driven services targeting Europe’s building stock. The team gathers experts from the building industry, data science and software engineering sectors from across Europe to boost the availability and use of building data in the EU. MODERATE formalises a set of procedures and techniques that enable building owners, facility managers, energy service companies (ESCOs), utility companies, product manufacturers, and policymakers, to openly share their data, gain insights, and make decisions while complying with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).