Meetings

RenoZEB is a sister project aims to unlock the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) renovation market by increasing property value through a new systemic approach to retrofitting, by Accelerating nearly zero energy renovation for buildings and neighbourhoods.

A clustering telco was held with RenoZEB coordinator in the midle of July. The concept of RenoZEB is quite similar to ours, so we agreed to exchange ideas and collaborate within the next months under bilateral workshops. The main idea is to study in more detail each others concepts/framework and indicate the topics we could collaborate and exchange ideas.

The close collaboration with RenoZEB project has strengthened further today, through a detailed technical meeting with the project coordinator (Solintel). As both projects gradually progress the pilot implementation activities; it was a good chance to exchange technical ideas from practical experience. Among others, today’s meeting referred to façade replicability, certification and actual costs.

Eventually the idea is to join forces in 2021, when we will be also ready with our pilots and cohost a public workshop in the frame of a conference or even in a separate isolated event e.g. in Brussels. as well as cohost (with other sister projects also) public events after the Easter 2021 (where pilot installations will be finished).

The seventh plenary meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium. The duration of the meeting was two days, from the 26th to the 27th of February 2020. The first day of the meeting the discussions made were about financial and administrative matters, as well as the progress made so far on requirements analysis, the PLUG-N-HARVEST ADBE System, the Control and Management at Building and District Level, the Circular Economy Business Model, as well as the overall progress of the project.The second day left was dedicated to the pilot sites, regarding the Pre-pilot deployment current status, the implementation time-plan, the tests time-plan as well as the façade and load bearing system, the tenders terms, the responsibilities outsourcing and the time-plan.

See the plenary meeting presentations and agenda here

The fifth plenary meeting took place at the E.ON Energy Research Center in Aachen, Germany. The duration of the meeting was two days, from the 26th to the 27th of February 2019. The first day of the meeting the discussions made were about the addition of a new organisation partner to the project, who will be responsible for managing the construction procedures on the Pilot sites. The second day left was dedicated to the progress made so far on requirements analysis, the PLUG-N-HARVEST ADBE System, the Control and Management at Building and District Level, the Circular Economy Business Model, as well as the overall progress of the meeting. Finally, dedicated efforts were made to prepare the consortium for the 1st review meeting of Plug-n-Harvest project next month.

See the plenary meeting presentations and agenda here

The second plenary meeting took place at the Agència de l’Habitatge de Catalunya premises in Barcelona, Spain. The duration of the meeting was three days, from the 6th to the 8th of June 2018. The first two days of the meeting were dedicated to extensive analyses and discussions among the participating consortium members about Circular Economy aspects, the “fitting” ADBE (designation and equipment) to the four pilot cases, as well as the workpackage 5 activities. The last day of the meeting was paid a visit to the Spanish pilot site.

The second plenary meeting took place at CERTH’s premises in Thessaloniki, Greece. The duration of the meeting was two days, from the 23rd to the 24rth of January 2018. During the meeting activities related to the PLUG-N-HARVEST ADBE (Adaptable/Dynamic Building Envelopes) System and its technical requirements were discussed among the participating consortium members. In addition extensive analyses concerning the Pilot sites and their national architectural, construction limitations and architectural or mounting particularities were made.