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European Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Conference

Date:
 

Venue:

27 - 28 February 2014

A-4600 Wels,
Upper Austria/Austria
Conference fee: 190 Euro, includes also the Energy Efficiency Policies Conference, Innovative Building Technologies Conference (27 - 28 Feb. 2014) and technical site-visit (28 Feb 2014, afternoon)

The fee also includes an entrance ticket to the tradeshow and conference documentation. All fees plus 10 % VAT 

Conference language:

English, German

Organisation and conference office:

OÖ Energiesparverband
Landstraße 45, 4020 Linz, Austria
Tel. +43/732/7720-14386
  The European conference to dicuss high efficiency buildings supplied by renewable energy: technologies, business models, policies, financing, definitions & national action plans, best practice examples, cost optimality of energy efficiency and renewable energy in new construction and renovation

Programme "Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Conference" (pdf)

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"