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Newsletter

#4

MAY 2013
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THE PROJECT
WHY AFTER?
Buildings account for around 40% of EU energy requirements. In the last five years, Social Housing Organizations have played an exemplary role in improving the energy efficiency of the housing sector. They have anticipated forthcoming national legislation and have punctually experimented with the construction of low-energy buildings and innovative energy refurbishment. AFTER aims to promote and continue this effort especially in light of the obstacles and challenges presented by the current economic situation. The AFTER project aims to enable participating and non-participating Social Housing Institutions and Organizations all over Europe to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock with cost optimal solutions. Its goal is to promote and develop existing European knowledge in the areas of energy saving strategies and encourage their implementation by companies in the housing sector. Social Housing Organizations in 6 different countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Slovenia) and their partners -including National Housing Associations, Scientific Committee and National Tenants Associations- are cooperating to highlight and evaluate the most efficient and adaptable energy saving measures. AFTER asserts the importance of establishing energy efficiency as a major goal even after construction of the building. The project promotes measures adapted to a variety of investments and situations. A special emphasis is placed on the important contributions of operation maintenance and management in the energy performance of buildings. AFTER will participate directly to this effort in improving energy efficiency by 20% according to the target set for 2020 by the European Commission.

SUMMARY
AFTER Presentation AFTER in Italy Partners Interviews: CLCV & USH ESM example: MRA (Czech Republic) AFTER News and Events Dissemination/EU News Partners p.1 p.2 p.4 p.6 p.7 p.8 p.9

AFTER IN ITALY: FOCUS ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL

The Newsletter #4 offers a special focus on the actions implemented in Italy in the context of the AFTER Project. In the framework of the AFTER Project, 3 Pilot Energy Saving Measures are implemented in in the Piemonte region within the social housing stock of the Agenzia Territoriale per la Casa Torino (ATC Torino). These measures and their impacts in terms of Energy Savings are assessed and optimized thanks to the help of the Scientific partners Schol and SiTI and their dissemination at a national level will be led by FEDERCASA, the Italian Federation for the Social Housing.

PARTNERS

Agenzia Territoriale per la Casa della Provincia di Torino (ATC)

ATC TORINO was established in 1907 by the Torino City Council to supply underprivileged citizens with low-cost housing and at the same time administering and managing their own real estate and that entrusted to them by other public bodies. ATC manages around 31.000 dwelling units and 10.000 owned by former tenant.

As a social housing organization, ATC is in charge, in the frame of AFTER, of reporting energy saving measures and testing new optimized measures.

Istituto per lAmbiente e lEducazione Schol Futuro (SCHOLE)

SCHOLE is a non profit cultural association, founded in 1982, which main purpose is to promote environmental preservation through different activities such as research, cultural promotion, planning, training and consulting, focusing mainly on environmental education and sustainable development.

Istituto Superiore sui Sistemi Territoriali per lInnovazione (SiTI)

SiTI is a non-profit association founde in 2002 between the Politecnico di Torino Univeristy and the Compania di San Paolo that lead research and training activities toward innovation and social and economic growth. Its main activities focus on: logistics/transportation, sustainable development/urban renewal, and territorial safety.

As a scientific partners, SCHOLE and SiTI are in charge, in the frame of AFTER, of the elaboration of the methods to assess, to optimize and to follow-up the test of energy saving measures.

Federazione Italiana per la Casa (FEDERCASA)

FEDERCASA is a professional umbrella organization representing 108 public corporations which, all over Italy, build and manage social housing. Its objectives concern, among others the promotion of political and social initiatives aiming at the good house help to the partners in order to promote their innovation strategies, the representation of the Associates in national and international organizations and developing study and research activities. In the frame of AFTER project, Federcasa leads the dissemination activities and will ensure the representation of the Italian SHOs in the framework of the project.
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PILOT SITES
RIESI PASSONI PICCO

ADRESS VIa Riesi 5. 10043 ORBASSANO NUMBER OF APARTMENTS 51 YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION 1995

ADRESS Via Fratelli Passoni 14. 10146 TORINO NUMBER OF APARTMENTS 12 YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION 1978

ADRESS Via Picco 53-55-62-64. 10078 VENARIA REALE NUMBER OF APARTMENTS 28 YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION 1966

EDITORIAL

The point of view of national Italian Federation: Interview with Ettore Isacchini, President of Federcasa

The refurbishment of existing buildings plays a central role in energy saving policies above all in Italy where the territory is widely built. Especially for public housing the energy improvement is needed not only for environmental reasons, considering the role that is attributed to the public sector, but also for social reasons, since most of tenants have very low incomes and therefore difficulties to pay their energy bills. Of total assets of approximately 800.000 of dwellings, we estimate that at least an half is in needs of refurbishment, because it was built around 30 years ago when the energy performance of buildings has not been considered. These 400.000 units are without insulation, with single-glazed windows and with obsolete equipments. The economic resources are scarce and so far the public housing companies were excluded from the tax incentive mechanisms for energy refurbishment instead of the private citizens; for that reason firstly it is necessary to identify the cost-optimal measures. From our experience, we can say that much more has to be done by investing better in integration between tenants and in creating a better system of cohesion and participation in order to preserve buildings. A good behaviour for a rational use of the space in which tenants live is the first step to improving energy efficiency also for a better global management. The strength of AFTER lies in the identification of several energy saving measures, from operating management to new building and in their development and optimization in order to test their effective efficiency and so their replication. The role of ATC Torino in this process adds an important contribution to the National Roadmap for the refurbishment of social housing.
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The work of Federcasa contributes to this process by creating network between projects in which Federcasa and its members are involved, with the aim to find synergies both at national level and European level, thanks to Cecodhas Housing Europe. Through these projects we try to bring our contribution to the European Strategy 20 20 20 for improving the quality of life of inhabitants in the social houses. If dedicated resources are available in the future we can go much further than the few demonstration projects in which we are working. This is my message to the Italian government and Europe!

Interview of the SiTI team SITI supports ATC Torino in the work of improvement of energy efficiency measures and monitoring. What were the main problems encountered in carrying out this task? How did you solve them?
AFTER is a complex project, as for its success it needs cooperation and dialogue between the different partners involved. In this framework, SiTI plays a special role, because it offers its support to two different kinds of partner: the Scientific partner Schol and the Social Housing Organization ATC. Regarding the support to ATC, the main activities are the collection of energetic and economic data and the performance assessment of the optimizations of the energy saving measures (ESM). The most relevant problems encountered in carrying out this task are related to the lack of data. In fact, the project requires a comparison of energy consumptions and heating costs before and after the optimizations, for it has been necessary to gather and compare a huge amount of different data, often managed by different offices working in ATC. The problem is common to all SHOs involved in the project and has not been fully solved yet; nevertheless, ATC has made a great effort in order to fill this gap and it has provided to SiTI a lot of economic and energetic data.

SiTI has therefore provided support in the interpretation and elaboration of the data collected.

The general problem of ex ante data retrieval on the consumption of the buildings makes it difficult to develop project feasibility. Do you think is possible to begin now to build a database of energy consumption? How?
The project AFTER has shown how difficult it is to collect data ex ante and ex post, especially in those cases where there is not a consolidated monitoring system. The lack of previous data is a problem for the comparison phase and for the assessment of the performance; an interesting solution could be to create a database of energy consumption, in which to collect economic and energetic data related to the specific energy saving measure applied. In order to be functional, this database should be unique for all ATC housing stock and it should be constantly updated and validated, for all the data to input.

In this pilot site ATC of Turin tries to ensure the thermal comfort and the economic performance of the new heating system (3 new condensation boilers) for tenants thanks to the Hydraulic balancing of the heating system via the regulation of the temperature settings and calibration of the heating curves (slop and level, from 0.8 point to 2) once a month. Control devices provided by the Energy Manager Techem register for each housing units heating (thermal units), per room, and the consumption data of domestic hot water, separately for kitchen and bathrooms (m3). This allows the operator to immediately verify the anomalies and to take prompt action. An important added value of this test case is the integration with another European project, the project BECA, which develops and verifies information and communication technologies for centralized monitoring of the consumption of several buildings by the operator of social housing. Through this project it will be possible to compare the results of three sites, whose data is flowing into the central system of the manager. Each user has access via the web to the reading of their consumption data, but the social housing inhabitants often dont dispose of web access, so ATC Torino has installed consultation points in its seat, in the lounge reserved for the inhabitants. Other solutions adopted to increase the awareness of the inhabitants are the lessons of energy savings carried out in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin and the publication of articles in the residents newspaper.

How does the AFTER project experience help to improve the effectiveness of future operations?
The project AFTER has led to interesting results that can help to improve the quality of the management of the housing stock of the SHOs involved and, in general, may serve as a basis for actions aimed at the energy saving in any private building. Regarding ATC, the most relevant suggestions concern to the necessity to improve the quality and the quantity of energetic and economic data collected and to increase the awareness of tenants. The reduction of the energy consumption is, in fact, strictly connected to a responsible and conscious tenants behaviour.

Description of the ESM RIESI implemented by ATC Torino

The Pilot project RIESI, located in Orbassano, concern 102 dwellings, in a 10 storey building, a total internal surface of 7,092.85 smq. The residents are 289, of which 16 foreigners. The energy fuel for the central heating is methane gas.

www.beca-project.eu/

REVIEW OF CURRENT WORK

AFTER project is based on a several steps approach. Before the summer and the beginning of the heating season, AFTER partners mainly focused on the validation of the scientific documents and the identification of relevant Pilot ESMs and Pilot Sites to implement optimization solutions.

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Data collection

Factsheets

Pilot Sites

Retro-Commissioning

Typologies

Handbook

Pilot Measures

Evaluation Protocol

Implementation on Pilot Sites

AFTER partners are currently implementing 18 Pilot Energy Saving Measures (and their optimization solutions) on Pilot Sites. First results have been collected during the heating season 2012-2013 and included in the Measurement and Verifications Plans - tools that will allow the Scientific partners to assess the efficiency (energy/econony/social) for these measures and their impacts. Some of these 18 Pilot ESMs will continue to be measured during the first part of the heating season 2013-2014 (from September to the end of November) in order to obtain relevant observation periods. The testing phase is one of the major aspect for the AFTER project. The results are currently included in some reporting formats. A presentation (AFTER Optimization Solutions Report) of the Pilot ESMs, their optimizations and the Pilot Sites is available on the AFTER website.

Preparation of the WP8 deliverables

AFTER partners have discussed in Copenhagen and will be prepared during the last phase of the project. These deliverables will insert the results from the testing in the asset management strategies of the participating SHOs, the retro-commissioning routines to identify the energy savings potentials existing in their housing stock and their technical/ management books.

Update of the Factsheets

Factsheets presenting the Energy Saving Measures identified during the Inventory phase of the project have been updated by the Scientific partners of the project with the participation of the Social Housing Organizations. They present a technical description for these measures with some feedbacks about tips to improve the implementation processes and relevant figures about their economic/energy and social performances.

coordination

AFTER Project Meeting #3

Turin, Italy - 22nd an 23rd of November 2012 hosted by ATC Torino in at the ATCs headoffices in Turin.

Welcoming Auvergne Habitat

December 2012 Auvergne Habitat located in Clermont-Ferrand, France has replaced Le Toit Angevin as the French AFTER Social Housing Organization.

AFTER Project Meeting #4

Copenhagen, Denmark 15th-17th of May 2013 hosted by BL at the BLs headoffices.

End of the heating season 2012-2013

End of May 2013 End of the first period of testing and measurement for the AFTER Optimized Pilot ESMs. This period will be extended from September to the end of November 2013.

AFTER in Copenhagen
The fourth AFTER Project Meeting has been organized in Copenhagen on the 15th, 16th and 17th of May 2013. The meeting was hosted by BL (Boligselskabernes Landsforening) - interest organization representing about 700 housing associations, which manage almost 20% of Denmarks dwellings - at its headoffices. This Project Meeting has been fruitful in order:

Coming events

AFTER Final Project meeting Prague, Czech Republic. March 2014.

Presentation of the new partner CB19 - Auvergne Habitat

Auvergne Habitat is a Private Social Housing Organization located in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dme). Auvergne Habitat exists since 1927 The companies headcount involves 206 employees with 70 caretakers on site, 20 employees and 24 technical workers. Auvergne Habitat owns 11 500 dwellings. The Social Housing Organization has a production of new 220 dwellings/year and implement refurbishments in 250 dwellings/year.

- to provide to the AFTER partners an overview of the comments and recommendations made by the EACI about the AFTER Interim report. - to organize the work to complete/improve the project deliverables. - to discuss the improvement of the reporting activities with the same objectives above mentioned. - to present the WP8 activities Pilot Sites & WP9 activities Dissemination. - to plan the next steps and milestones to respect until the end of the project. AFTER partners have also participated to field visits on energy-efficient buildings owned by BL members and organized by our host in the Stationsby neighorhood of Avedore in the Copenhagen suburbs (photo: Store Hus building in Avedore).
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INTERVIEW WITH LAURE BOURGOIN CLCV

Consommation Logement et Cadre de Vie (CLCV) is a nongovernmental organization that acts as an umbrella for 390 local consumers associations. CLCV was founded in order to improve the living conditions and were prepared to strive in order to secure the protection of consumers rights. CLCV bases all its actions and activities on the information that it gathers from consumers.

Laure Bourgoin is Project manager about housing topics in CLCV. She is the main interlocutor concerning the AFTER project.

energy performance of buildings, the Grenelle environment ...), environmental requirements in order to reduce greenhouse gas.

What are the main challenges in this project ?

Generally speaking, the projects aim is to reduce energy consumption of buildings, to improve management of maintenance operations, to set up strategies combining energy efficiency and low cost investment. From the tenants point of view, the project is an opportunity to increase their involvement in the reduction of energy consumption through better adaptation of the technical solutions to their behavior.

What is CLCV ?
CLCV is a consumer organization and also a tenants organization. A large number of our members are tenants and take part in the boards of housing organizations. As a campaigning organization, CLCVs action fits into our aim of fostering compliance with sustainable development principles in production, distribution and consumer behavior, and turning consumers into leading players of this trend. CLCV lobbies politicians, the Government and the various institutions set up by the Authorities to tap into the opinions of consumers associations about the policies that they implement and in order to foster dialogue between the various economic players in society.

What is the role of CLCV in this project ?

In this project, CLCV, is the only one tenants organization and we have developed a satisfaction questionnaire and a methodological note presents various awareness tenants on the 18 pilot sites. We are in charge ot the answers compilation and we are also responsible for organizing the collection of tenants opinion in three pilot sites in Clermont-Ferrand. We also disseminate information about the project through articles in our magazine, and more recently, during a one-day training on Housing and energy.

What are the main issues for tenants ?

There are several issues for tenants. Energy saving measures, in order to achieve the EU target of reducing consumption up to 20%. It also has to be stressed that a lot of discrepancies remain in energy saving experiences. Furthermore, the need of a sound return on these experiences is still an important issue. Other factors have to be taken into account : the dramatic rise of energy costs, new regulatory requirements (RT 2012 European Directive on the
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What are the actions taken by the CLCV desk based in Clermont-Ferrand in the context of the AFTER project?

AFTER Pilot sites in Clermont-Ferrand Heating system in RAMEAUX. Ventilation extractors in BERGSON. District heating in AIGUILLADE.

Test measures are highly technical and it is quite difficult to involve tenants in this kind of tests. Nevertheless, it is still possible to inform and educate. For example : Rsidence Les Rameaux: a new energy contract with performance objectives and a profit sharing system with the operator concerned CLCV conducts a satisfaction survey among tenants on the temperature inside the housing during the next heating season (November 2013). Cofely, an energy provider, has lent equipments to raise temperature. Rsidence Bergson: establishment of a monitoring system of assisted natural ventilation CLCV conducts a survey among a panel of tenants on the functioning of the ventilation system : Are they satisfied with the solution ? Is ventilation system noise level acceptable ? Rsidence Aiguillade: heating network: monitoring the average power demand for a renegotiation of the R2 part of the price. CLCV conduct house-to-door in all the tenants to collect their views on rehabilitation and satisfaction with the heating.

In summary, what do you think is important?

For us, the project must participate before any improvement in the quality of life for tenants, regardless of their opinion, determine the most appropriate measures and allow their dissemination with the aim of a reduction of the energy bill.

French National Housing Association

Measures implemented in France intend to identify corresponding major leverage opportunities (efficiency in energy, economic and social terms, implementation methods, reproducibility and impact on rental charges): - RAMEAUX: Optimisation of energy gains of a maintenance contract with incentives. Improving approaches on follow up maintenance actions is also essential. - BERGSON: Optimisation of statomechanical ventilation systems in a recently refurbished building. Instrumentation was established to measure the efficiency of the system and to carry out corrective actions. - AIGUILLADE: The renegotiation of the subscription contract of a district heating system following an energy refurbishment; The approach involves assessing whether the requested heat flow is in line with the subscribed heat flow.

What are the actions with Auvergne Habitat ?

For example, with Auvergne Habitat, CLCV has provided : - A meeting of the collaborative council in February and November for the results. - Meetings workshops with tenants of the sites, but also sites around. A discussion of district heating will be conducted more broadly than just experimentation undertaken. - Actions by the CLCV.

FOCUS ON...
Improving the efficiency for a smart metering portal about energy performance (CZ)
In the frame of the project AFTER municipality housing organisation MRA, Ltd. from the city of Havrov, the Czech republic, as other SHOs involved in the project, has realised three pilot optimised energy saving measures. In this newsletter it will be described one of them the web tool for increase in awareness of the tenants about their water and heating energy consumption.

JABURKOVE is a typical multi-residential building from the municipal housing stock. This building was constructed in 1962 according to a national standard known as T02B and it was refurbished in 2009. It has altogether 36 rental apartments with 73 inhabitants. The aim of the ESM is to provide the pilot building tenants continuously information about their water and heating energy consumption by means of modern information and communication technologies and to motivate them to the resource savings. At present time once a year the tenants are provided with information about their hot and coldwater consumption and heating energy consumption of previous year by paper form in the frame of annual settlement (invoice) when in fact the tenants can not change the consumption. The technical solution includes in terms of hardware wireless digital RF 868 MHz thermometers of inside temperature and cold, hot water meters with pulse output that have been installed in the pilot apartments. In the common

parts of the house

Example of visualisation of the monthly consumption of Domestic Hot Water.

there has been installed RF outdoor thermometer, building gateway and repeaters that ensure signal transmission. Elements are powered with inside long life batteries. Readings of water consumption data, temperatures, energy for heating the house are done every 20 minutes and transmitted to the building gateway with wireless technology. The gateway is connected to internet distributions. The consumption data are sent from the building to central server where they are stored, processed and visualised to the users on the web portal in graphical and numerical form. The heating energy consumption per apartment is calculated with degree-day method. The tenants have received login name and password to the web application. The ESM has been optimised with education materials that have been distributed to the tenants in paper form and also placed on the internet

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Graph - Personal information: Anonymous comparison with the other apartments in the house.

web portal. The material includes advices for correct heating (for example correct temperatures in flat, correct use of TRVs), correct ventilation and tips for water savings. As not all the tenants have internet access, the monthly paper reports about consumption have been sent to the tenants. The benchmarking with the other apartments anonymously. The benchmarking means to show the tenants column graph informing every tenant what his consumption in comparison with the other flats anonymously in the same building. In the frame of this project MRA would like also to test another form of measuring of heating energy consumption per apartment. MRA has negative experience from past with the heat cost allocators installed on radiators. The management of MRA consider the meters of heat consumed on radiators not to be fair because of the heat transfers between the apartments of a same buildings. There is a potential and major free rider issue regarding the behaviors of the tenants: measurements on radiator leads some tenants to turn off heating and steal heat from neighbouring properly heated apartments. Another reason why not to measure energy consumptions on radiator is the development of mildews. The HCA strongly motivate the tenants to savings but some tenants by inappropriate savings cause the increase of presence of mildews and increase of costs paid by building owner to remove mildews and deterioration of the technical state of the building. MRA has provably documented that at the time when heating consumption has been allocated to flat on the basis of meters on the radiators and people saved, MRA had enormously high cost of removing mildews. Immediately after the meters have been removed, the costs of removing mildews rapidly decreased on minimum.
AFTER Social Housing Organization: MRA sro Adress of the Pilot Site: J.Jaburkov 1,3,5, 736 01 HAVIROV. Total living space: 1758,7 m2(apartments) + 1,9 m2 (commercial space). 36 dwellings Date of construction: 1962 (refurbishment: 2009) Energy Saving Measure implemented: Web portal creating to increase the awareness and the monitoring of the tenants about their water and heating energy consumption. Internet portal www.merenitepla.cz Energy consumption before renovation: 2009: 247, 780 MWh (HDD = 3336) Energy consumption after renovation: 2010: 232, 500 MWh (HDD = 3987) Characteristics of the metering system: Wireless radio frequency meters of heating energy (RF thermometers), hot, cold water consumption are installed in apartments. Consumption data are transmitted via gateway to application server where are stored and processed. Remote reading of heating energy and hot and cold water consumption in individual apartments and visualisation of consumption data to tenants on internet user web portal in graphical and numerical form.
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COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION EVENTS

AFTER ouputs have been presented and discussed thanks to several interventions directed toward a professional public. Overview of some of our last dissemination activities.

DANISH NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Copenhagen, Denmark June 2013
Number of participants: 10 Type of participants: Universities, municipalities, the Danish Facilities Management Network and Social Housing Organisations.

The Danish National Advisory Board met for the second time. Generally the NAB found that the documentation of the energy saving measures in the fact sheets will be very interesting as a catalogue of inspiration and good ideas. Some of the energy saving measures will be more interesting than others in the Danish context - with a very wide spread district heating system. But as an example it was mentioned to use the fact sheets (in a Danish translation) as helpyour-self-help for the technical staff in the Social Housing Organisations. The communication with the technical staff is very important. The meters generally have a very bad interface, difficult to understand for the users. Its important to include that in the evaluation and to disseminate the results to the producers. Awareness raising and information on RetroCommissioning is a very important result of the AFTER project - in combination with the fact sheets. Trimming the process of operation, maintenance and management in the Social Housing Organisations is an important challenge for saving energy, creating better comfort and improving indoor climate.

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Wirtschaftlicher Einsatz von gering-investiven MaSnahmen im gebudebestand und im neubau CONFERENCE

Darmstadt, Germany 28th of August 2013

Number of participants: ... Type of participants: Social Housing Organizations, architects, scientific institutes, real estate companies, municipalities technicians.

The day has been organized thanks to Bauverein ag. The Scientific partner IWU is also participating to this workshop that will present and discuss the main steps of AFTER and of research and developments about Retro-commissioning methodology (cf. AFTER Newsletter #3).

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ELIH project - Energy Efficiency in Low Income Housing in the Mediterranean (supported by the MED Programme)
ELIH-Med is a strategic project co-financed under the MED Programme. Its attention is focused on energy efficiency in low income housing (LIH) in the Mediterranean area and on the involvement of residents in energy retrofit in LIH in order to help LED area to reach EU2020 objectives. AFTER has participated to the last meeting of ELIH in Montpellier on the . DELPHIS has presented AFTER activities focusing on the RCx methodology. The AFTER outputs may be interesting to complete the researches led by ELIH after refurbishment. The collaboration between the two projects - that will be strengthen during the last phase of AFTER - is also fruitful as it joins two different zones of Europe fom Greece and Malta (ELIH partners) to Czech Republic and Denmark (AFTER partners).

The workshop has been organized thanks to several interventions regarding topics such as Efficiency in Passive House, Energy Efficiency at what social cost?, Focus on energy efficiency of the housing industry - creating facts!, RetroCommissioning - Recognize and use Energy Savings, etc. The complete agenda for the meeting is available on the AFTER website, part News.

SHELTER project - Innovation in the Procurement of Energy Renovation (supported by the IEE Programme)
The SHELTER Final Event took place in the context of the CECODHAS Housing Europe General Assembly 2013 in association with the Irish EU Presidency, with the participation of hundred persons from all European countries. Improving the energy performance of buildings while reducing costs for Social Housing Providers & Residents through better planning along the whole renovation supply chain is the main goal of the IEEfunded project SHELTER (www.shelterproject-iee). After an introduction on the sectors current challenges and an outlook on the renovation market trends and their implication for Social Housing Providers, panellist focused on tested innovative coordination and delivery methods in the renovation and construction supply chain, with concrete examples from SHELTER Pilots implemented in England, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium and France. The last panel was dedicated to financial schemes and access to capital. The presentation of the AFTER project took place in the second panel, Renovation and Construction Supply Chain Coordination, at the presence of Ms Yamina Saheb in representation of the International Energy Agency (IEA). All the presentation made are downloadable from the Cecodhas website .

Forthcoming events

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74th CONGRESS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING

Lille, France - 24th of September 2013 The European project AFTER will be showcased during a workshop at the Pavilion of Sustainable Development during the Congress organized by Union sociale pour lhabitat in Lille between the 24th and 26th of September, 2013. This 3 days conference is the major event for Social Housing i France, with the participation of the French Housing Minister. The first feedbacks on the three energy saving measures implemented by Auvergne Habitat will be presented and will be discussed with representatives of tenants, energy companies and other stakeholders in the sector.

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FACTS AND FIGURES

* Started on May 2011 for a duration of 3 years. * 2,7M budget granted for 75 % by the European Commission. * 18 partners and 6 Social national housing organisations managing 103 000 housing units. * 200 professionals participating in 3 National workshops and final seminars * 3 pre-tested standard energy saving measures per country targeting an immediate energy reduction of 3 to 7,5%. * 3 pilot sites per country to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of well-developed energy saving measures. * Promoting low-cost innovations: under 500 EUR/housing unit.

COORDINATION AND CONTACT

PROJECT MANAGEMENT Julien Bonnet bonnet@delphis-asso.org c/o DELPHIS 33, rue Saint-Augustin PARIS, France www. http://www.delphis-asso.org/ Tel. : + 33 (0)1 56 08 54 2375002 Fax : + 33 (0)1 56 08 01 09

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