PROGRAMME

Thursday, 27 February 2014

14.00 NZEB policies & market overview

• Opening & welcome
  Rudi Anschober, Regional Minister for Energy, Upper Austria
  
  
• Transition to sustainable buildings – strategies and roadmaps to 2050
  John Dulac, International Energy Agency (IEA)
  
  
• Progress in implementing the EU Buildings Directive
  Claudia Canevari, European Commission, DG Energy
  
  
• The implementation of the EU Buildings Directive in Austria
  Gerhard Dell, OÖ Energiesparverband, Austria
  
  
• Is cost-optimality driving buildings towards NZEB?
  Bogdan Atanasiu, Buildings Performance Institute Europe
  
  

NZEB Market transition - how to make it happen?

• CEN building standards in practice
  Jaap Hogeling, CENTC 371 Programme Committee on EPBD, ISSO, The Netherlands
  
  
• NZEB renovation in the building stock: policies, impact and economics
  Lukas Kranzl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  
  
• Turning energy efficiency into sustainable business - a European roadmap
  Luc Bourdeau, E2BA-Energy Efficient Building Association
  
  
• European financing opportunities for building efficiency
  Reinhard Six, European Investment Bank
  
  
• Business models for upscaling building renovation
  Paul Kenny, Tipperary Energy Agency, Ireland

18.30 End of the conference day


19.30 Evening event

Friday, 28 February 2014

09.00 NZEB strategies and technologies

• The European Building Policies
  MEP Fiona Hall, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-President Eufores
  
  
• The city of the future – research & technology development
  Theodor Zillner, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation & Technology, Austria
  
  
• Do smart meters create smart consumers?
  Francisco Puente, ESCAN, Spain
  
  
• Energy technologies for NZEB neighbourhood
  Hans Erhorn, Fraunhofer Institute of Building Physics, Germany

Conference: Innovative and cost-efficient building technologies

10:30 Working Group: key factors for successful NZEB policies

Chairperson: MEP Fiona Hall, European Parliament, Vice-President Eufores

• National Plans – a comparison
  Andreas H. Hermelink, Ecofys, Germany
  
  
• The Danish National Plan
  Kirsten Engelund Thomsen, Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  
• "Nearby" use of renewable energy sources
  Jarek Kurnitski, Tallinn University of Technology, Vice-president REHVA, Estonia
  
  

Project flash – perspectives & initiatives

• Boiler exchange programmes - successfully driving down energy costs
  Johannes D. Hengstenberg, CEO co2online, Germany
  
  
• Legal and economic aspects of cross-building energy exchange
  Markus Schwarz, P.MSc., Energieinstitut Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  
  
• Energy development plans - spatial planning for more energy efficiency
  Tobias Wagner, Technical University Munich, Germany
  
  

12.50 End of the session

10:30 Innovative and cost-efficient building technologies

• Examples of cost optimal NZEB buildings
  Tony Ryan, Kingspan/Ewan Jones, AECOM, UK
  
  
• Pellets - economic heating systems for NZEBs
  Herbert Ortner, ÖkoFEN, Austria
  
  
• Solar thermal - a key technology for NZEBs
  Pedro Dias, ESTIF
  
  

Building technologies of the future

• Cutting edge building technologies: the Energy Efficiency Center
  Hans-Peter Ebert, The ZAE Bayern, Germany
  
  
• Aerogels – a superinsulating building material
  Eunate Goiti, Tecnalia, Spain
  
  
• Selection and operation of building-integrated storage systems
  Michael Danzer, ZSW, Germany
  
  

12.50 End of the session

13.30 - 17.45 Site-visit "Nearly Zero Energy Buildings"

Please also see the related conferences:

• WSED next Energy Efficiency
• Innovative Building Technologies Conference
  
• Energy Efficiency Policies Conference
• B2B-Meetings
  
  

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