1. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS IEA Energy Conservation in Buildings & Community Systems Programme – Update ECES Executive Committee Meeting, 15 th May 2012

2. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS … to facilitate and accelerate the introduction of energy conservation and environmentally sustainable technologies into healthy buildings and community systems, through innovation and research in decision-making, building products and systems, and commercialization ECBCS Mission

3. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Participating Countries Australia Austria Belgium Canada P.R. China Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Poland Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK USA Germany Greece Ireland (new in 2011) Italy Japan Republic of Korea Netherlands New Zealand Norway

4. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Developments in 2011 (1) Closed projects: Annex 44: Integrating Environmentally Responsive Elements in Buildings Annex 48: Heat Pumping and Reversible Air Conditioning Annex 50: Prefabricated Systems for Low Energy Renovation of Residential Buildings

5. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Developments in 2011 (2) Approved projects: Annex 57: Evaluating the Overall CO 2 Emissions due to Buildings and the Building Construction Industry Annex 58: Reliable Building Energy Performance Characterisation Based on Full Scale Dynamic Measurements Annex 59: Minimizing Temperature Differences in HVAC Systems for High Energy Efficiency in Buildings

6. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Recent Publications (1) Annex 48: Heat Pumping and Reversible Air Conditioning “Analysis of Building Heating and Cooling Demands in the Purpose of Assessing the Reversibility and Heat Recovery Potentials” “Review of Heat Recovery and Heat Pumping Solutions” “Simulation tools: Reference Book” “Design Handbook for Reversible Heat Pump Systems with and without Heat Recovery” “Overview of Cases Studies and Demonstrations of Heat Pump Systems for Tertiary Buildings”

7. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Recent Publications (2) Annex 44: Integrating Environmentally Responsive Elements in Buildings “Designing with Responsive Building Elements” Annex 49: Low exergy systems for high-performance buildings and communities “Exergy Assessment Guidebook for the Built Environment”

8. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Recent Publications (3) Annex 50: Prefabricated Systems for Low Energy Renovation of Residential Buildings “Retrofit Strategies Design Guide - Advanced Retrofit Strategies and 10 Steps to a Prefab Module” “Retrofit Simulation Report” “Retrofit Module Design Guide” “Building Renovation Case Studies” “Retrofit Advisor” (electronic tool)

9. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Annex 55 (2009-2013) – Reliability of Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting: Probability Assessment of Performance & Cost Research Objectives: Develop knowledge and tools that support the use of probability based design strategies in retrofitting of buildings to ensure that the anticipated energy benefits can be realized Give reliable information about the true outcome of retrofitting measures regarding energy use, cost and functional performance Apply and demonstrate probabilistic methodology on at least five real life case studies, with a focus on residential buildings

10. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Annex 56 (2010-2014) – Cost Effective Energy & CO 2 Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation Research Objectives: Enable economically and technically optimised building refurbishment as a contribution to the improvement of the existing building stock to mitigate climate change Develop a methodology to establish a new standard - This will take into account both energy efficiency improvements and greenhouse gas emission reductions, such as the use of renewable energy sources Derive clear target values using the methodology that are suitable to serve private entities, agencies and governments Promote energy and greenhouse gas optimised building renovation by means of subsidies or mandatory measures based on the standard

11. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Annex 57 (2011-2015) – Evaluating the Overall CO 2 Emissions due to Buildings & the Building Construction Industry Research Objectives: Collect existing research results concerning embodied energy and CO 2 emissions due to building construction, to analyze them and to summarize into the state of the art Develop guidelines of the methods for evaluating the embodied energy and CO 2 emissions due to building construction Develop guidelines of the measures to design and construct buildings with less embodied energy and CO 2 emissions

12. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Annex 58 (2011-2015) – Reliable Building Energy Performance Characterisation Based on Full Scale Dynamic Measurements Research Objectives: Develop common quality procedures for dynamic full scale testing to come to a better performance analysis Develop models to characterise and predict the effective thermal performances of building components and whole buildings

13. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Annex 59 (2011- ) – Minimizing Temperature Differences in HVAC Systems for High Energy Efficiency in Buildings Research Objectives: Establish a methodology for analysis of the thermal environment system from the perspective of reducing mixture and transfer losses Develop a new concept for temperature and humidity independent control systems Research radiant terminals and the direction of efficient HVAC systems for large building spaces

14. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS Annex Proposals & Concepts Under Consideration Full Proposal: Development & Demonstration of Financial & Technical Concepts for Deep Energy Retrofits of Government / Public Buildings & Building Clusters Full Proposal: New Generation Computational Tools for Building & Community Energy Systems Based on the Modelica & Functional Mockup Unit Standards Full Proposal: Advanced Lighting Solutions for Retrofitting Buildings, Joint SHC / ECBCS Task / Annex Project Concept: Ventilative Cooling

15. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS ECBCS Executive Committee Support & Services Unit (ESSU) Website – www.ecbcs.org Newsletter Annual Report Project Factsheets Secretariat support Coordination with IEA activities Coordination with other activities T: +44 121 262 1920 E: essu@ecbcs.org W: www.ecbcs.org

16. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS ECBCS Newsletter Published and freely available on the ECBCS website and in print Approximately 1500 downloads each month from website Circulation of printed edition:1500 copies Published twice every year in June and December

17. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS ECBCS Annual Report & Factsheets Available on the ECBCS website

18. International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme - ECBCS ECBCS Executive Committee Future Meeting Locations Spain: 13 th - 15 th June 2012 Switzerland: 14 th – 16 th November 2012 Italy (joint with SHC): 12 th - 14 th June 2013 (Location to be confirmed): 13 th – 15 th November 2013