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The Smart Cities Marketplace aims to bring cities, industries, SMEs, investors, researchers and other smart city actors together. By exploring existing solutions and transferring knowledge, shaping project ideas and bringing project proposals to investors to enhance deals …

In this project, industrial and research partners will explore the potential of advanced data analytics to support the renovation challenge of the existing residential building stock by focusing on the digital twin concept. The digital twin concept will be investigated as an …

The energy transition will take place in cities. ACCESS empowers cities to coordinate local stakeholders for supporting and investing in the transition of Europe’s energy system. With support from:

The project aims to catalyse a lasting cross border collaboration between industry, research and other stakeholders. The goal is to technically enable local manufacturers and building and construction companies to realize cost effective integration of long lengths of solar …

The web-based calculation tool TOTEM, which was launched in 2018, allows to assess the environmental impact of buildings over their whole life cycle. The TOTEM tool was developed as part of a collaboration between the three Belgian regional authorities. The consortium of …

EnergyVille has developed a number of products and tools to support decision making and to monitor the impacts from building renovation and energy transition programmes and initiatives. These tools allow to shift between various levels of details/scope: from the building …

City Portal is an interactive and smart platform with building data for collective renovation of residential buildings at district, city, provincial and regional level. In 2019 Fluvius provides this tool to all cities and municipalities in Flanders as a free service.

Increasingly more buildings and building districts combine several energy sources, both renewable and fossil, with different energy carriers such as electricity and heat. As a result, the integration and interactions of these different sources and carriers become more …

After successful and high-performance testing on various demo sites, the STORM District Energy Controller is now available on the market. The controller ensures a lower use of fossil fuels and allows an increased share of residual heat and renewable sources in DHC networks …

An EPD (environmental product declaration) is a standardized way to quantify the environmental performance of a product, process or system and to report on it. EPD’s are based on a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

There are many ways to make a house more energy efficient: insulate better, install a heat pump ... The EBECS algorithms of VITO/EnergyVille provide specific advice based on the size of the house and the energy consumption of the residents. Bank-insurer KBC, Cozie’s …

The ECODISTR-ICT project develops an integrated decision support tool that facilitates decision making on the retrofitting and renewal of existing districts and its composing buildings. It connects the main decision makers in urban district transformation programs, acting …