ntense

energy eciency

Handbook:
Holistic energy efficient
planning and construction

Authors:
Dirk Schrder-Brandi

Friedemann Stelzer

Energie- und Umweltzentrum am Deister e.V.

Germany
Phone: + 49 (50 44) 9 75 21
E-mail: schroeder-brandi@[Link]

Energiebndel,
Germany
Phone: +49 (71 21) 3 82 08 26
E-mail: info@[Link]

Wilfried Walther

Daina Indriksone

Energie- und Umweltzentrum am Deister e.V.

Germany
Phone: + 49 (50 44) 9 75 21
E-mail: walther@[Link]

Baltic Environmental Forum,

Latvia
Phone: +371 6735 7550
E-mail: [Link]@[Link]

Christiane von Knorre

Jrg Faltin

Auraplan,
Germany
Phone +49 (40) 63 27 01 81
E-mail: [Link]@[Link]

Auraplan,
Germany
Phone: +49 (43 51) 76 75 91
E-mail: [Link]@[Link]

Hans Lfflad

Sandra Oisalu

Ingenieurbro fr Baubiologie,
Germany
Phone.: +49 (3 33 97) 6 83 88
E:mail: info@[Link]

Baltic Environmental Forum

Estonia
Phone: +372 65 97 027
E-mail: [Link]@[Link]

Philipp Engewald

Ingrida Bremere

Baltic Environmental Forum

Germany
Phone: + 49 (40) 53 30 70 75
E-mail: [Link]@[Link]

Baltic Environmental Forum,

Latvia
Phone: +371 6735 7561
E-mail: [Link]@[Link]

Layout and editing: Philipp Engewald,

Layout of slide pages Ecoprint, Estonia

Printing: Ecoprint, Estonia, 2011

INTENSE Intelligent energy saving measures for municipal housing

in Central and Eastern European countries
Coordinating partner: Ingrida Bremere, Project manager, Baltic Environmental Forum, Latvia

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Introduction
About the Handbook
On 19 May 2010, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the
recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2010/30/EU). The aim of the Directive
is to strengthen the energy performance requirements and to clarify and streamline some of
the provisions from the 2002 Directive, which it replaces. The Directive clearly states that as
of 31 December 2020 new buildings in the European Union will have to consume nearly zero
energy and the energy will have to be to a very large extentfrom renewable sources.
Meeting these requirements means that construction is implemented properly and in a
high quality. Already the building boom in many Central and Eastern European countries in
2006-2008 showed that quality differs greatly. Many buildings erected in this period have
constructional defects that also affect their energetic efficiency. Settlements were built in the
outskirts of larger cities without proper infrastructure and connection to the urban public
transport system.
Due to that reason there was a need for a training program having a holistic approach by
bringing together different aspects of energy efficient urban planning down to details of
construction and finding out how to make energy efficient houses more attractive and
desirable for citizens.
Such a training programme should be targeted not only to the immediate decision-makers on
municipal level, but also the executing stakeholders both from design and implementation
levels. Experts from these two levels are the most important key actors for the implementation
of energy efficiency in construction.
In the frame of the project From Estonia till Croatia: Intelligent Energy Saving Measures for
Municipal housing in Central and Eastern European Countries (INTENSE), which is financed
by Intelligent Energy Europe program, such a training program was elaborated in order to
provide tools for further dynamic developments at the pan-European level and to promote
the know-how transfer between nations in order to achieve the goal of implementing the
European Union standards at a national level.
The focus of the INTENSE training program is on the low energy/passive house standard,
i.e. how to achieve the standard and to go further (nearly zero-buildings, required by the
Directive Recast). The training program has a modular approach consists of 9 modules and it
allows combining different units according to local needs:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Legislation
Quality control
Settlement planning and design principles
Energy carriers and renewable energy sources
Ecological materials
Cost-benefit assessment
Building physics
Construction of elements
Systems engineering

The handbook is divided into 2 parts a paper version consisting of key slides with comments
of each module and an extended electronic version having deeper information on each module (on CD).

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How to use the Handbook

Each chapter contains key slides, which summarize the main contents in form of a presentation and
below you can find further explanations on the content, as well as hints for further information or suggestions for how to present the content to your audience. Where applicable you will also find here
information about connecting topics.

Legislation
Slide 3

Legislation

EU ENERGY and CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

Targets to be achieved in the EU by the year 2020:

20% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of 1990 levels
20% reduction of energy consumption by increasing energy
efficiency
20% share of energy from renewable sources in energy
consumption
The building sector is responsible for:
40% of EUs energy use
36% of EUs CO2 emissions
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[Link], BEF LV
[Link], REC, Oct. 2010

Electronical handbook

Slide
The presentation
you can find on the
enclosed CD.

In 2000 the EC launched the European Climate Change Programme to indentify cost effective measures
for reducing Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A major step of the EU energy and climate strategy is
the EU Climate and Energy Package adopted in 2008, where several targets to be reached by 2020 were
agreed upon:

Notes
Further explanations for you as a
trainer with suggestions for further
reading and how to
present the content .

reduction of GHG by at least 20% of 1990 levels

increase energy efficiency by 20%
increase the share of RE in energy consumption to an average of 20%
It is widely known that most existing buildings are energy intensive; within EU they are responsible for
~40% of EU energy consumption and 36% of EU CO2 emissions thus energy efficiency in the building
sector will be crucial to reach GHG reduction targets.

Connection to other themes

Energy carriers, settlement planning, building physics, system engineering

Background
There is high evidence that human induced climate change is happening. The accelerated melting of
ice and snow, the increase in average temperature and sea level, the abundance of extreme weather
conditions like temperature increase, heat waves, storms, floods and increased precipitation are all
the effects, symptoms of climate change. EU is a frontrunner in taking actions to mitigate the climate
change effects.

Suggestions for presentation

Present national targets for energy efficiency, GHG reduction, use of RES and the relevant strategies,
guidelines, national/regional/local action plans etc.

For each topic the CD will also contain an extended version of the presentation with more detailed explanations and more examples.

Using and adapting the slides

You are free to use these presentations as a whole or only parts of it in your trainings and you are also
free to modify these presentations provided that you give credit to those who have prepared them. In
that case we would appreciate a note from you with some information how you have used the slides.
Further information is also available on [Link]

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Abbreviations used in this handbook

AC

Air conditioning

A/V

Outer surface to inner volume

BEF

Baltic Environmental Forum

CAD

Computer-aided design

CAPEM

Cycle Assessment Procedure for Eco-Materials

CEE

Central and Eastern Europe

CHP

Combined Heat and Power generation

COP

coefficient of performance

CPC

Compound Parabolic Concentrator

DHW

Domestic hot water

EE

Energy efficiency

EER

Energy efficiency ratio

EC

European Commission

EPBD

Energy performance of buildings directive

EPC

Energy performance certificate

ESD

Energy end-use efficiency and energy services directive

EU

European Union

e.u.z.

energie + umwelt zentrum (energy + environment centre)

GEMIS

Global Emission Model for Integrated Systems

GHG

Greenhouse gas

HR

Heat recovery

HVAC

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning

HVACR

Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

IEE

Intelligent Energy Europe

INTENSE

From Estonia till Croatia: Intelligent Energy Saving Measures for Municipal housing in
Central and Eastern European countries

LCA

Life cycle analyses

LCC

Life cycle costs

LV

Latvia

MS

Member State

PC

Personal computer

PHPP

Passive House Planning (Design) Package

PVC

Polyvinyl chloride

RE

Renewable energy

REA

Riga Energy Agency

REC

Regional Environmental Center

RES

Renewable energy sources

ST

Solar thermal

SWOT- analysis

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats analysis

US EPA

United States Environmental Protection Agency