Project objectives

To demonstrate and quantify the great CO2 emissions reduction potential of intelligent technologies and models of construction (house automation and latest generation inmotic) applied to buildings having a great visitors flow and owning a high exemplifying capacity.

To model and promote standardisation patterns of intelligent facilities reinforcing the 2002/91/CE Directive's objectives on energy performance of buildings taking education centres and institutions and public buildings as demonstrative experimentation platform.

To certify the added value of the domotic applications as instruments and technologies in the market to reach a cost-efficient emissions reduction in the framework of the strategy subsequent to 2012 and its high interest as improvement measures for "energy performance" according to the annex III of the Directive 2006/32/CE on energy end-use efficiency.

To contrast through the demonstrative experimentation in those buildings of high energy requirements and of great transfer potential, the conclusions of two international studies ("Institute for Building and Energy Systems , Biberach University of Applied Sciences" and "Bremen University of Applied Sciences") quantifying the energy savings through house automation up to 50% for air-conditioning and 80% for lighting compared to conventional facilities.

To define and disseminate at national and international scale models and domotic control and regulation standards to assure the highest energy performances and lowest emissions levels that will serve as benchmarking patterns for certain typologies of buildings (education centres and institutions, universities, museums, libraries and interpretive centres) with a great implementation degree in the E.U. to support their transferability potential and the profitable reduction.

To stimulate employees (Directive 2006/32/CE) and users energy-efficient behaviour as regards these types of buildings (teachers, civil servants, students, citizens) making use of the multiplying effect and the exemplary role of the teaching ambit and the public services through a high-scale dissemination strategy and tools to assess energy performances and the associated emissions reduction indicators.