Integriertes Virtuelles Energielabor zur Planung nachhaltiger Projekte

Integrated Virtual Energy Laboratory for the design of sustainable projects.

According to the European Buildings Directive for the Energy Performance of Buildings 2010/31/EU [1] all new public buildings must correspond to the nearly zero energy standard from 2018 and all other new buildings from 2020. Furthermore, sustainable design and evaluation according to established certification systems such as the German Sustainable Building Certificate (DGNB), the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) or the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is more and more requested by investors for buildings and entire neighbourhood developments. In order, to meet these requirements and to ensure a high quality of the building, project teams pursue a holistic life-cycle approach to optimize buildings and neighbourhoods. In order to support this optimization process, an Integrated Virtual Energy Laboratory (IVEL) was developed during the EU research project Holistic Energy Efficiency Simulation and Lifecycle Management Of Public Use Facilities (09/2010-12/2013 HESMOS) and will be further developed in the EU research project Collaborative Holistic Design Laboratory and Methodology for energy-efficient Embedded Buildings (eeEmbedded 10/2013-09/2017).