Intend

Project name

Integrated Energy Design In Public Buildings

Project duration

September 2006 to September 2009

Project coordinator

KanEnergi AS

Partners

• Norway:

         1. KanEnergi AS
         2. Green Building Alliance

• Denmark:

         1. Esbensen Consulting Engineers AS
         2. Engineering College of Aarhus

• Poland: National Energy Conservation Agency

• United Kingdom: London Metropolitan University

• Greece: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

• Austria: Austrian Energy Agency

Objectives

Long-term goals:

• introducing Inegrated Energy Design as a standard European practice of building design,

• popularizing knowledge about the benefits of using IED among building users,

• disseminating IED know-how among architects and designers,

• encouraging organizations operating on the real estate market, building owners and investors to promote high-performance buildings (with low energy demand),

• defining the set of norms for buildings’ design directly connected with EPBD.

Short-term goals

• testing IED on 12 chosen buildings in Europe,

• elaborating tools and methods for IED supporting EPBD implementation,

• developing a website www.ecoark.net with a database of high-performance buildings and information about eco-building, etc.,

• popularizing IED method and tools used in 12 demonstration buildings.

Expected results

The main rule of IED is to apply passive and low-energy solutions and to provide good indoor climate conditions. Experience shows that the buildings constructed in IED process use considerably less energy than buildings designed traditionally. IED allows designers to concentrate on utilizing passive energy (daylight, passive heating and cooling, air distribution, etc.) before applying mechanical solutions.

IED tools, results and experiences from 12 demonstrational projects carried out in 6 countries will be disseminated at seminars and conferences.

In the longer term it is expected that the project will clearly demonstrate awareness of the usage of IED as an important method. The project will show that the design team together with developers and users can provide outstanding results.

Project website

http://www.intendesign.com/

Coordinators from NAPE’s side

Aleksander Panek apanek@nape.pl
Małgorzata Popiołek mpopiolek@nape.pl

INTEND seminars

Integrated design – INTEND project

On June 18 a successive seminar of the INTEND project took place.

The seminar was organized as an accompanying event to the Thermomodernization Forum, an annual conference of the Association of Energy Auditors. As a result, approximately 300 participants of Thermomodernization Forum had a chance to see the program of the seminar. This time, the INTEND seminar was addressed to professionals specializing in energy audit. It was opened by Dariusz Śmiechowski, SARP Secretary, who underlined practical and theoretical aspects of sustainable buildings design informing the audience that sustainability begins at the stage of technical and economical assumptions for the building and that it should be taken into consideration at all stages of the building design and construction.

Next, a member of the INTEND team, Marcin Malinowski, PhD, familiarized the audience with some aspects of sustainable development and its interconnections with the Integrated Energy Design process. He cited the definition of sustainable development that describes it as a political economy doctrine including aspects of the environment, natural resources, and human health. The doctrine is characterized by a long-term perspective on the effects of current actions, and puts emphasis on decreasing energy consumption in buildings and human settlement structures, limiting greenhouse gas emissions, high quality of indoor and outdoor environment, and satisfactory social and economic relations.

Elżbieta D. Ryńska, PhD, from Warsaw University of Technology presented and discussed examples of buildings developed according to the rules of Integrated Energy Design. She put special emphasis on the need to adjust new buildings to their surroundings, the landscape, and natural topography, in order to attain harmony between the building and its surroundings that is good for the human beings. The seminar was attended by approximately 60 people, 20 of which filled out a questionnaire evaluating it as interesting and important from the point of view of energy experts, but indicating that the subject is difficult and requires broader knowledge about the designing process. The journal of energy auditors Energia i Budynek was the media sponsor of the event and published a notice before and a short report after the seminar.

Conference on Energy Efficient Buildings – Law, Technology and Practice

26 February 2008, Poznań

On 26 February 200

8 the first conference devoted to the promotion of IED organized in the framework of the INTEND project took place. It was held in Poznań, under the patronage of the local governor. ABRYS company from Poznań coorganized the event. About 100 persons representing local authorities responsible for the investment process attended the conference, as well as designers interested in the subject of energy efficiency, especially in the planned legislative measures implementing the directive 91/2002/EC. The seminar program was designed to include the presentation showing the need for introducing IED process in the discussion of the system of buildings’ energy certification. The conference was attended by members of the INTEND team, representatives of the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the Poznan University of Technology. All participants were asked to fill out the project questionnaire.

15 questionnaires were returned, mostly filled out in a standard way without personal comments. A few comments voiced the need to go further into details on this subject. The overall evaluation of the conference was positive.