Programme

03 March 2011

9.00 Opening & welcome

• Rudi Anschober, Regional Minister for Energy, Upper Austria
• MEP Claude Turmes, European Parliament, President Eufores

• Deep renovation of buildings around the globe
  Jens Laustsen, Denmark
• The Energy Efficiency Watch initiative - results and outlook
  Jan Geiss, Eufores
• Smart cities - urban strategies for energy efficiency
  Michael Paula, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria
  
  

Cost optimal levels of building renovation

• The recast of the European Buildings Directive
  MEP Silvia-Adriana Ticǎu, European Parliament
• The new EPBD and its cost optimal requirement setting
Michaela Holl, European Commission, DG ENER
• What is the "cost-optimum" for building renovation?
  Nils Borg, eceee
• EPBD implementation: optimising towards nearly zero buildings
  Gerhard Dell, O.Ö. Energiesparverband, Austria
• An analysis of costs of building modernisations
  Eberhard Hinz, IWU – Institut Wohnen und Umwelt, Germany

Lunch break

Programmes & Examples

• LessEN is more: a global initiative for building renovation
  Alexandra Notay, Urban Land Institute, United Kingdom
• From audits to real savings
  Aare Vabamägi, Estonian Climate and Energy Agency, Estonia
• High-performance building retrofits in the North-East US
  Andrew M. Shapiro, Energy Balance, USA
• "Serve": upgrading 400 buildings
  Seamus Hoyne, Tipperary Institute, Ireland
  
  

Project Flash

• The role of energy performance certificates in purchasing decisions
  Hermann Amecke, Climate Policy Initiative, DIW Berlin, Germany
• CFLs for 21 million households
  Mohammad Hassan Zarbakhsh, Iran Energy Efficiency Organisation, Iran
• Energy efficiency in architecture competitions
  Hana Riemer, Technische Universität München, Germany
• Cost efficient low energy retrofits
  Helmut Poppe, Poppe*Prehal, Austria
• Successful building renovation programme
  Jean-Luc Sadorge, Pôle Alsace Energivie, France
• Promoting energy efficiency to the Russian building sector
  Ksenia Petrichenko, Central European University, Russia
  
  

18.15 End of session

19.30 Evening programme

04 March 2011

9.30 Working Groups

Working Group 1: Energy Efficiency Watch - the policy framework

Chairperson: MEP Fiona Hall, Member of the European Parliament, Vice President Eufores

• Obligations in the existing housing stock: who pays the bill?
  Casper Tigchelaar, ECN, NL
• Integrating renewable heating in building renovation
  Reinhard Haas, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
  
  

Working Group 2: Behaviour & technology

Chairperson: Sorcha Edwards, Coordinator POWER HOUSE EUROPE, Deputy Secretary General, CECODHAS - Housing Europe

• A roadmap for energy-efficient renovation
  Stefano Carosio, European Construction Technology Platform, D'Appolonia SpA/E2BA
• Technology Platform Building renovation - a socio-economic analysis in 5 countries
  Andreas Huber, European Institute for Energy Research, EIFER
  
  

Working Group 3: Energy-Contracting

Chairperson: Ralf Goldmann, European Investment Bank

• Energy-Performance-Contracting – an overview & successful example
  Vollrad Kuhn, Johnson Controls, Germany
• Energy performance contracting in the Czech Republic
  Vladimir Sochor, SEVEn, Czech Republic
  
  

12.00-15.30 Site-visit

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