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This second issue of the newsletter reflects the progress achieved by the project between April 1st, 2019 until September 30th, 2019.
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GEO4CIVHIC Project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 792355.
The project will run for 48 months, from April, 1st, 2018, until March 31st, 2022.
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Review and identification of the buildings located in the World Heritage Sites
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The Narrative of the “Identification of cultural buildings as real and virtual demonstration in UNESCO sites” is the deliverable linked to WP5, Task 5.1 – Review and identification of the buildings located in World Heritage Sites in the geographic area of mandate of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe in Venice, Italy. These sites perform as virtual and real demonstrators of the “Most Efficient, Easy and Low Cost Geothermal Systems for Retrofitting Civil and Historic Buildings” (“GEO4CIVHIC”) project.
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Regulatory analysis overview guide on the implementation of renewables and GSHP in retrofit scenarios and historical buildings
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The report provides an overview and an update of applicable legislation and regulation on the installation of closed loop GHEs, an updated review on the transposition of the regulations with regards to the EPBD and on the permitting and regulatory requirements in place for the retrofit and refurbishment of historical buildings in all the case study jurisdictions of the project.
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This document describes the Data Management Plan (DMP) for Most Easy, Efficient and Low Cost Geothermal Systems for Retrofitting Civil and Historical Buildings (GEO4CIVHIC) Project.
The GEO4CIVHIC project participates in the Pilot on Open Research Data launched by the European Commission along with the H2020 programme. The use of a Data Management Plan is required for all participating projects.
This document defines the policy adopted for the management of data produced or collected during the project activity, including their storage in a suitable online repository to assure optimal preservation, security and sharing performances.
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GEO4CIVHIC DSS for geothermal retrofit specification and requirements
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The aim of the GEO4CIVHIC project is to foster the retrofitting of civil and historical buildings by facilitating installation, reducing costs and increasing efficiency of the different components through shallow geothermal systems. This will be achieved, on one hand by improving drilling machines and methodology, optimizing GSHE design and materials, and using more compact and hybrid HPs for high and low temperature terminals. On the other hand, a set of software tools will be developed to provide a holistic engineering solution to optimise installation and operation of GSHPs. One of these tools is a Decision Support System (DSS) to provide sets of engineering solutions based on heating and cooling application relevant for the different ground and climate conditions across Europe.
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First Report on implementation of Training, Education and Dissemination activities
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This document has the purpose to inform about the progress in the implementation of the actions included in TED Plan in the first year of the project namely in M1-M12. The target groups for this document are all the identified stakeholders in the TED Strategy:
- Shallow geothermal specialists: Geologists, Manufacturers for GSHP Equipment, GSHP applications designers, GSHP Researchers
- Constructors, architects, building, structural and H&C engineers, technicians and installers
- Energy and Environment Agencies
- Historical buildings and Monument protection specialists
- Regulatory authorities in energy and H&C
- Local authorities and energy decision makers at local, regional and national level
- Real estate investors and funding institutions
- Lawyers (specialised in environment, construction)
- Ecologists, opinion formers, media
- Building owners representatives and general public interested in energy savings and ecology
- Undergraduate and PhD students
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Drillability mapping and state of the art of the drilling methodologies
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“Drillability” is understood as the prediction of the most suitable drilling methods and related borehole heat exchanger types for a given underground, with the estimated installation time in function of the rig and drilling technique types and the local geological constrains.
This document describes all the activities performed in order to define the drillability of the different geological context in Europe and in the real test sites selected for the project and, finally, present the first drillability maps produced.
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Modelling energy demand and plant typology study for different levels of renovation in different types of buildings, climates and grounds
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Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP) are gaining interest for many applications and a very difficult issue is to look at their affordability in urban environments with limited spaces. In order to set up different cases with different levels of retrofit and try to generalize results, the project focuses the activity on archetypes, i.e. buildings which may represent the usual type of building which may be found more frequently in urban environments around Europe. The analysis of the archetypes has been based on literature review and analysing the existing databases of buildings in Europe. The work allowed to determine a reference building for single family house and a building representing an apartment block for multi-users. The multi-user building (apartment block) has been considered both as office building, while the terraced house just as residential. The buildings have been additionally subdivided into existing buildings, i.e. built up from 1960 to 1990 and historic buildings, i.e. buildings earlier than 1960. For these two types of buildings both current and post-retrofit envelopes have been contemplated
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Preliminary analysis and generation of possible different modular solutions description for civil and historical buildings
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This report contains the main conclusions of deliverables D1.1, D1.2 and D1.3 with which different scenarios are composed. These scenarios combine different thermal profiles of buildings according to their climate, drilling conditions according to the location and access conditions and the possibility of combination with other renewable energies.
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GEO4CIVHIC DSS for geothermal retrofit Reference Architecture
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This document presents the definition of the hardware and software components that form the DSS, as well as the interaction between them, which will be implemented in this same Task.
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Report on data collection, design and preliminary cost-benefit analysis of the real cases
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The document aims to collect all the relevant data of the real demo cases and connected with the data collection task, to elaborate a preliminary cost-benefit analysis that will consider the costs of the retrofit for the real cases (including the GSHP system design).
The data collected will be the main characteristics of the building (e.g. morphological and geographical variables, latitude and elevation, volume of the building, average U-value for the opaque/glazed structures, type of terminals used, average temperature of the location, energy costs for fuels and electricity etc.), specific data of geometrical and thermal characteristics, weather data, TRY and ground properties. The deliverable will also include a preliminary cost-benefit analysis that will consider the costs of the retrofit for the real cases (including the GSHP system design).
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Ethics requirements: EPQ-Requirement No.1
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This document is focused on EPQ – Requirement no.1 [8], assessing the general possible harm to the environment caused by the research activity and aims to identify the general environmental major project’s risks and to implement associated mitigation measures.
Another focus is on the Environmental Impact Assessment that provides a systematic evaluation of the positive and negative impacts of GEO4CIVHIC project’s activities with environmental risk, on both the natural and human environments.
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GEO4CIVHIC Dissemination Events
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Events happened between
April 1st, 2019 – September 30th, 2019
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Hydra Company has participated at the BAUMA Fair in Munich (Germany), between April 8th – 14th, 2019
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12th month management meeting - April 1st - 3rd, 2019 - Valletta (Malta)
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REHVA CONGRESS CLIMA 2019 – May 26th-29th, 2019 – Bucharest (Romania)
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During this event, members of the GEO4CIVHIC Project’s consortium presented three papers in specialized sections dedicated to renewable energy sources. All papers are presented in extenso in the project’s website in the webpage dedicated to “Congresses and Conferences Articles”. Moreover, representatives of the GEO4CIVHIC Project participated at the “REHVA course on hybrid GEOTABS”, thus insuring a connection between these two EU funded projects.
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European Geothermal Energy Congress – June 11th-14th, 2019 - The Hague (Netherlands)
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The event - organized by EGEC - has enabled the presentation of two important papers on the GEO4CIVHIC Project and its achievements so far.
Luc Pockele (RED) presented the paper: “Innovative drilling methods, heat pumps and tools to address shallow geothermal in the built environment: H2020 project – GEO4CIVHIC”.
Rodolfo Perego (SUPSI) presented the paper: “Economic, geological and technical potential mapping test for GSHP systems in Europe”.
Both papers are presented in extenso in the project’s website in the webpage dedicated to “Congresses and Conferences Articles”.
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European Geothermal Energy Congress – June 11th-14th, 2019
The Hague (Netherlands)
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Set-Plan & ENVE Conference, Bucharest,
12-14 June 2019
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The SET Plan & ENVE Conference in Bucharest was an initiative focused strongly on the interaction of different stakeholders with local and regional authorities on the road towards a clean energy transition. This was accomplished by the strong involvement of partners working together for this unique SET Plan and ENVE Conference edition: Romanian Presidency of the European Union, Romanian Ministry of Energy, European Committee of Regions, European Commission, Romanian Municipalities Association.
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Set-Plan & ENVE Conference, Bucharest, 12-14 June 2019
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Shallow Geothermal Energy Days
September 24th-25th, 2019
Brussels (Belgium)
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The event was organized jointly by EGEC and the GEOPLASMA Project.
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Shallow Geothermal Energy Days – September 24th-25th, 2019
Brussels (Belgium)
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1. INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CNR – ISAC)
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CNR)
Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova, Italy www.isac.cnr.it
Contact person: Adriana Bernardi, a.bernardi@isac.cnr.it
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12. SOCIETATEA ROMANA GEOEXCHANGE
(SRG – RGS)
Bdul Pache Protopopescu 66 Sector 2, Bucharest 021414, Romania
www.geoexchange.ro
Contact person:
Robert Gavriliuc,
robertgavriliuc@yahoo.com
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13. CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
AND SAVING (CRES)
Marathonos 19th Km, Pikermi 19009, Greece
www.cres.gr
Contact person:
Dimitrios Mendrinos,
dmendrin@cres.gr
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20. SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE
DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA (SUPSI)
Stabile Le Gerre, Manno 6928, Switzerland
www.supsi.ch
Contact person:
Sebastian Pera,
sebastian.pera@supsi.ch
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