REHVA organised its 2014 Seminar together with the iSERV project consortium around the topic of “Energy Effective Operation of HVAC Systems” on February 13th 2014 at the Thon Hotel EU.
The seminar covered a wide range of topics: updates from high level EC speakers on EU policies related to buildings energy efficiency including the new financing opportunities; how to increase the energy efficiency of HVAC systems through monitoring; results of the iSERVcmb project and a discussion about their further exploitation from policy and industrial perspective.
European Commission Project Officer Pau Garcia Audí (EASME) pointed out the importance of iSERVcmb in improving energy efficiency. In order to convince end users to increase their energy efficiency EU policymakers have to speak the language of the non-professional user groups actually consuming the energy. To achieve this we need to be able to collect real energy data, to benchmark evidence based energy use and express energy saving opportunities in financial terms instead of metrics like kWh or primary energy. The H.E.R.O. tool developed by iSERV provides help in reaching these goals.