Abstract
In the context of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), the H2020 SmartBuilt4EU project aims at consolidating and supporting the Smart Building Innovation Community (SBIC), allowing the Smart Building technologies to reach their full potential and to remove those barriers that slow down the improvement of building performances.
The work package 3 of the SmartBuilt4EU project is focused on the contribution to the promotion, experimentation and roll-out of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) in the EU. In particular, it proposes an approach to increase the awareness on the co-benefits of Smart Buildings (see deliverable D3.1) and in this deliverable introduces Smart Building technology solution packages. These are sets of smart services, defined, using as a reference the smart-ready service catalogue, as indicated in the delegated Regulation, and provided by the SRI technical study, in combination with smart products available on the market. First, reference conventional configurations for a residential and an office smart building have been defined. Secondly, starting from these conventional configurations, enhanced smart functionalities have been selected in order to define four different technology solution packages, each one with a specific focus: 1) Energy efficiency; 2) Comfort, health and well-being; 3) Smart grid readiness; 4) Informed users.
A modelling and simulation activity has been carried out, to couple this assessment with quantitative insights on the implementation of the defined solution packages. Two building models have been set up using the EnergyPlus simulation engine: a residential building and an office one. In order to determine the effects of the implementation of a certain solution package, a standard building configuration has been defined and used as baseline to be compared with the results obtained with the configuration implementing a specific solution package. Solution package 2 focused on comfort, health and well-being has been selected for this assessment due to the rising interest in technologies responsive to user’s needs and the possibility to model them in the selected modelling and simulation environment. Finally, an outlook on the SRI implementation in the European climatic and regulatory context based on literature sources is presented.