Launch of the EPISCOPE tool - monitoring the residential stock and energy refurbishment progress
The newly released tool allows users to view statistical data related to the energy performance of residential buildings. The tool shows the characteristics of the housing stock current state for 20 countries and modernisation trends determined based on monitoring pilot actions of the energy refurbishment progress for 16 countries resulting from the EPISCOPE project. It allows comparing countries and provides policy information, such as the definitions for nearly-Zero Energy Buildings.
The tool displays detailed information on several aspects:
- Building stock characteristics
For each country the actual state of the building stock is mainly based on the official statistics provided by EPISCOPE and TABULA partners. Only when deemed necessary, statistics have been harmonised through the definition of aggregated categories (i.e. for the heating technologies) or the application of common factors (i.e. for the estimation of total floor area) in order to allow the comparison between the different countries.
- Modernisation trends
The methodological approach and the list of indicators to track the energy refurbishment progress of the housing stock have been elaborated within the EPISCOPE project [IWU 2015]. The Energy Performance Indicators (EPI) tables that include: building insulation levels, building insulation improvements and modernisation trends for technical systems, were the basis for the new developments within the Data Hub. The results (2013 status) for six countries have been integrated in the EPISCOPE tool.
- nZEB definition
A new indicator on nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) definitions for new and existing buildings has been integrated in the structure of the Data Hub and EPISCOPE tool. It was based on the methodology developed for the BPIE factsheet in cooperation with the EPISCOPE project.
Access the EPISCOPE tool at: http://www.buildingsdata.eu/data-sources/episcope-data
The tool was developed within the framework of the EPISCOPE project (http://episcope.eu/).
The Intelligent Energy Europe project EPISCOPE (2013-2016), following the TABULA project (2009-2012), has the aim to contribute to the monitoring and optimisation of energy refurbishment processes and actual energy savings in the national residential building stock.