OPEN HOUSE
Benchmarking and mainstreaming building sustainability in the EU based on transparency and openness (open source and availability) from model to implementation
International project:
Acronym: OPEN HOUSE
Programme: 7th EU Framework Programme, ENV.2009.3.1.5.2 - Benchmarking and labelling of the sustainability performance of buildings
Contract No.: 244130
Project implementation period of time: 01.02.2010 – 31.07.2013
Total value of the project: EUR 4 875 168,38 incl. EC funding: EUR 3 498 730,00
ITB’s budget: EUR 87 558, incl. EC funding: EUR 70 618 and Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education co-funding of ITB own contribution: PLN 68 506
Coordinator on behalf of ITB: Jadwiga Fangrat, PhD, Michał Piasecki, PhD and scientific supervision by – prof. Lech Czarnecki, PhD, DSc
Leader/Coordinating organisation: : ACCIONA INFRASTRUCTURES, Spain
Participants:
CAE Services GEIE, The Architects' Council of Europe, ACE, Belgium
APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD, APINTECH, Greece
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, ARUP, United Kingdom
CONSEJERIA DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO, SOSTENIBILIDAD Y MEDIO AMBIENTE, EUSKO JAURLARITZA-GOBIERNO, VASCO, Spain
BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION, BOUYGUES, France
MIASTO STOLECZNE WARSZAWA (CAPITAL CITY WARSAW), Poland
SLOVENSKI GRADBENI GROZD, GOSPODARSKO INTERESNO ZDRUZENJE, CCS, Slovenia
RINA CONSULTING SPA, DAP, Italy
DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUER NACHHALTIGES BAUEN, DGNB, Germany
ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE, EDF, France
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, ETH ZURICH, Switzerland
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, FRAUNHOFER, Germany
INSTYTUT TECHNIKI BUDOWLANEJ, Poland
MOSTOSTAL WARSZAWA SA, Poland
RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, SP, Sweden
VIVIENDA Y SUELO DE EUSKADI S.A., VISESA, Spain
FUNDACION AGUSTIN DE BETANCOURT, FUNAB, Spain
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY, United Kingdom
GRADBENI INSTITUT ZRMK DOO, ZRMK, Slovenia
Short description:
the main goal of the research project was to develop and implement in practice a clear, verified method for assessing and designing buildings that meet the criteria of sustainable development, taking into account methodological differences in existing systems, in particular: LEED, BREEAM, SB TOOL and DGNB. The new method was to be publicly available on the Internet. It was planned to verify it in practice in countries not participating in the project and through cooperation with another FP7 project called SuperBuildings. The effect of the project was the creation of an open technological platform defining the rules for performing environmental analyses of buildings and increasing the ecological awareness of all entities participating in the construction market, with particular emphasis on the GPP green public procurement practice. ITB has developed criteria and procedures for determining sustainable development aspects for buildings, making calculations of actual buildings. It was also intended to implement the results of OPEN HOUSE in Eastern European countries.
Detailed goals of the project:
- defining a sustainable construction platform open to all and transparent,
- wide dissemination of the developed model and creation of a model of interaction between project participants and, in the future, promotion of a specific approach in broad European activities,
- construction of the OPEN-HOUSE platform: substantively moderating the European Commission's policy in the field of sustainable construction,
- development of the method and its validation based on the results of implementations,
- ensuring further continuation of the project idea in the European construction sector.