BRE partners on cross-Europe energy performance research project - BRE Group
BRE partners on cross-Europe energy performance research project
QUANTUM, a new research project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is aiming to close the estimated average 25% gap between designed and actual energy performance and 1.5% for comfort performance in European buildings. Research indicates that poorly commissioned and operated building management systems are often responsible for this gap, generally caused by the lack of appropriate and coherent quality management systems for building performance. On this basis, the project is focused on developing and demonstrating pragmatic services and tools with high replication potential that support quality management for building performance in the design, construction, commissioning and operation phases. The core mechanism is to 'design for testability' by specifying transparent performance targets with cost effective testing methodologies.
The project will apply three innovative ICT-driven tools to enable effective quality management in all relevant services within a building's lifecycle:- HPS/NG9 (by Energy Team SPA, Italy) – cost-effective and easy to install in-situ energy metering devices with online data analysis
- Performance Test Bench (by Synavision GmbH, Germany) – first tool for the specification and automated validation of BMS functions using Active Functional Specifications (AFS)
- Comfortmeter (by FACTOR 4 BVBA, Belgium) - first completely web-based questionnaire for perceived user comfort
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