Sustainable Cooling in Cities
Increasing and spreading international knowledge about effective heat mitigation and sustainable cooling in cities
Grid Integrated Control of Buildings
Providing a framework of concepts, tools and evidence that can enable trustworthy, automated, cost-effective trading of flexibility resources from buildings at scale
Human-centric Building Design and Operation for a Changing Climate
Determining the role that occupants and building stakeholders must play to facilitate the energy transition while adapting to our changing climate
Validation and Verification of In-situ Building Energy Performance Measurement Techniques
Advancing the accurate measurement and diagnosis of building thermal performance for residential buildings in heating and cooling climates
Energy Resilience of the Buildings in Remote Cold Regions
Developing guidelines on how to improve the resilience of buildings and building communities located in cold and very cold climates
Smart Materials for Energy-Efficient Heating, Cooling and IAQ Control in Residential Buildings
Developing energy-efficient heating, cooling and air purification strategies by using novel smart materials, especially advanced sorbents
Open BIM for Energy Efficient Buildings
Advancing integrated digital planning, construction and operation of buildings and districts based on the Open Building Information Modeling methodology
EBC Annex 90 / SHC Task 70 Low Carbon, High Comfort Integrated Lighting
Identifying and supporting the implementation of potential decarbonization measures for electric lighting, and daylighting and passive solar design of façades with a global perspective
Ways to Implement Net-zero Whole Life Carbon Buildings
Focusing on the pathways and actions needed to implement whole life cycle based net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from buildings in policy and practice
Evaluation and Demonstration of Actual Energy Efficiency of Heat Pump Systems in Buildings
Developing new test methods, field monitoring methods and energy calculation methods, together with practitioner-oriented design guidelines for heat pump systems in buildings
Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalised Environmental Control Systems
Establishing design criteria and operation guidelines for personalised environmental control systems, and quantifying their benefits regarding health, comfort and energy performance
Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings
Improving the energy efficiency of indoor air quality management strategies in operation and improving their acceptability, control, installation quality and long-term reliability
Indirect Evaporative Cooling
Studying the feasibility and providing a roadmap for using indirect evaporative cooling technologies in different regions of the world
Positive Energy Districts
Enhancing international co-operation on the development of positive energy districts that are capable of generating more energy than is used and that are flexible enough to respond to energy market variations
Energy Flexible Buildings Towards Resilient Low Carbon Energy Systems
Providing methodologies, tools, and real-world evidence (regulations, energy pricing, and business models) to support deploying energy flexibility services from clusters of buildings
Supplementing Ventilation with Gas-phase Air Cleaning, Implementation and Energy Implications
Investigating the possible energy benefits of using gas phase air cleaners as partial substitutes for ventilation, and establishing procedures for improving indoor air quality with reduced ventilation using these technologies
Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre
Providing industry and research organisations with knowledge and information to optimize ventilation technologies and design