Towards Class A Municipal Buildings as Shining Examples

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What is a shining example
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What is a shining example?

• Buildings or projects that elevate the profile of
  your city
• Demonstrate innovation, good practice and/or
  dedication to sustainability
• Enable learning
• Showcase different building types
• Different locations and approaches
• A chance to promote your good work!

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at least 100 Shining examples

• A few shining examples weve already found
• Saarbrucken DE
• Cork IRL
• Utrecht NL
• Bielsko Biala PL
• Almada PT
• Brasov RO
• Lausanne CH
• Durham UK
• With many more to come

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Visit the Websitehttp//www.display-campaign.org
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Find out more about our campaign and how we can
help your municipality
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All the Shining Examples

• With your help, we produce for every Shining
  Example
• A detailed case study on the Display website
• Large A0 poster
• Presentation slides
• The following slides show all the cities weve
  identified so far.

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Shining Example Posters
Multi-lingual posters to promote your city across
Europe
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Durham 510 posters and counting!
UK

• Many historical buildings
• Energy strategy since 1994
• Pre-emptive action
• Demonstration projects

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Cork Floats Active Comfort Zones
Ireland

• 2 new gas condensing boilers
• 19 new heating zones, 51 TRVs
• Remote monitoring and control system
• New highly efficient lighting
• 35 reduction in heating costs
• 30 reduction in CO2 emissions
• 50 reduction in lighting load
• Comfortable, productive working environment.
• Ratings Energy C, CO2 D, Water D

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Odense delivers smarter school heating
Denmark

• Heating in Rosengårdsskolens was uncomfortable
  and expensive
• Created 80 heating zones from six
• Automatic controls knows which rooms are in use
• Monthly energy measurement, annual evaluation
• Energy use dropped by 25
• Saving 75.6 tonnes CO2 a year
• Four year payback

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Pupils bring home energy savings
Germany

• Combined Display with existing programme
• Saarbruecken Oekologische Schule programme is
  strong financial incentive
• Both provide useful learning materials
• All teachers eager to get involved and learn
  alongside students and parents
• Poster campaigns highlight links to wider
  ecology, not just savings
• Creating new awareness, pride and ambition to
  maximise savings at school and at home

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Almada launches Local Agenda
Portugal

• Refurbish Casa Municipal do Ambiente
• Building thermally insulated
• New lighting controls sense daylight and room
  occupancy
• New efficient, gas driven air conditioning and
  heating
• Strong communication identifies further savings
  over time
• Signals clear progress towards Agenda 21

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Brasov celebrates Energy efficiency
Romania

• Energy Efficiency Week
• Simultaneous, high impact
• launch
• Energy Info Point for free advice
• Romanian energy efficiency forum
• and Display
• Engaging the community
• Informing and empowering citizens

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Financial innovation from Riga
Latvia

• High Rise Renovation
• Residents involved throughout
• Careful planning removedneed to decant residents
• Inspiration and financing
• Latvia piloting replicable energy efficiency
  refurbishment
• Germany disseminating expertise and offer funding
• Manufacturers provide funding too
• New façade and insulation halved heating costs

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Accession for success
Bulgaria

• Block 1. Radomir, Bulgaria
• Funding from Phare and Radomir
• EU institutional and financial support
• Refurbishing typical high-rise common in Central
  and Eastern Europe
• Coordinated by Committee of Energy
• International consortium of installers
• Close consultation with municipality and
  residents
• 46 energy savings based on normal heating
  pattern

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Taking the heat out of high-rise
Portugal

• Urban renewal of Cueta Norte, Lisbon
• 2.2m part funded by EC SUNH
• Installation of
• solar shading, low e glass and
• thermo mechanical ventilation
• Successfully applied passive measures and
  reduced energy intensive active cooling

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Sustainability taken to court
Switzerland

• Montbenon District Court, Lausanne
• Historic building refurbishment
• Reduce water and energy use
• Without altering architecture
• Coherent management
• Including ESCo, estates management, caretaker,
  official from municipality
• Replaced windows, insulated roof, refitted
  entire heating and water system
• Achieved a B rating for energy and carbon
  emissions
• Achieved A rating for water consumption

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Guesthouse welcomes Energy Services
Switzerland

• Comprehensive refurbishment of Swiss Guesthouse
• Delivered through innovativeEnergy Services
  contract
• Refurbishment includes
• Insulated full building envelope
• Controlled ventilation with heat recovery
• 62 m2 thermal solar cells
• Promoted in wider context of Lausanne
  sustainability commitment

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Kobanya galvanises resident support
Hungary

• 1980s five storey high-rise in Budapest
• Installed insulation and upgraded heating system
• Leadership shown by Kobanya
• Secured residents commitment
• Including 20 resident funding
• Committed to 8 yr payback
• 44 saving in space heating energy
• With considerable improvements to resident
  comfort and control

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School 27, a class apart
Poland

• Bielsko-Biala primary school shares heating
  controls with adjoining apartments
• Installed separate heating zones
• Cost only 4000, payback in 6 months
• Savings
• 197000 kWh or
• 8500 pa
• 63 tonnes CO2 per year
• Raised awareness of savings by decision makers
• Easily replicable whilst achieving substantial
  savings

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Medieval refurbishment
Netherlands

• City Hall, Utrecht
• Labyrinth of 10 interconnected medieval and
  modern buildings
• Addressed heating, and cooling complaints
• Strong use of energy awareness materials
• Extremely difficult energy efficiency improvement

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Zoning in on leaky offices
Finland

• Vironkatu 2, Helsinki.
• Initiated by voluntary energy conservation
  target
• City has annual budget solely for EE
  improvements
• Improvements
• Basic renovation to seal leaky windows
• Automated lighting switches off when unoccupied
• 47 Heating and 20 Energy saving
• Better environmental awareness among occupants

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School skips to low energy beat
Greece

• 9th Primary School, Egaleo
• School has strong sustainability record winning
  Flag of Ecological Schools
• A new commitment to the local environment with
  new projects emphasising environmental awareness
  and water conservation
• Modest changes by many can create sustained
  savings

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Old park to new-build
United Kingdom

• Alpine Close, Maidenhead
• Transformed old car park into sustainable housing
• Incorporating new sustainable innovations
  including grass roof
• Acting as a test site for new solutions and
  process
• Maximising future benefits for residents

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Educators get top marks in efficiency
United Kingdom

• Centre of Engineering and Manufacturing
  Excellence
• Dagenham, London
• Use of PV to create integrated roof solution to
  canopy and street
• New energy measures cut utility bill by 25
• Winner of Best Design-led Regeneration Project,
  2004

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Solar village shines
United Kingdom

• Primrose Hill, Kirklees
• PV cells installed on 137 homes
• -These PV cells aim to generate 400kW
  representing nearly 5 of UKs total PV
  generation
• -Provide 50-60 of hot water needs
• -Save on emissions, Over 60 tonnes of carbon
  dioxide a year
• -Brought more than 700,000 into Kirklees
  community

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Sustainable, relocatable, educational
United Kingdom

• Telford and Wrekin
• Development of relocatable classrooms that serve
  multiple uses while meeting sustainable
  objectives
• Units are highly insulated and use passive solar
  gain and waste heat
• Rooms shared by both junior and secondary
  students as well as by the local community

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Schools out for inefficiency
Germany

• Tatort Büro Hanover
• Voluntary energy saving project adopted by 83
  schools and over 70 day care centres in Hanover.
• Focus on delivering energy saving measures that
  our feasible to the schools
• Installation of simple energy efficient measures
• Adoption of energy efficient items such as light
  fittings, connectors and water tanks
• Insulation as well as sealing or draft proofing
  windows and doors
• Installation of temperature sensors that improve
  comfort and reducing cost and inefficiency of
  over heating.

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Great expectations' as green design arrives in
Sandwell
United Kingdom

• Sandwell council, West Bromwich
• Exemplifies the impact that out-of-the-box
  thinking can have on communities.
• Intelligent and green design used to raise
  expectations in social housing
• Recycled cellulose used to insulate, allowing
  near perfect SAP energy scores
• Solar water heaters provides temperatures up to
  75C
• Rainwater and treated grey water are recycled and
  reused.

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Other routes used to display

• TCA Newsletter
• Press releases in your home town
• Help centre
• Special events and presentations

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Summary

• Lots of activity Website, posters, slides,
  presentations, TCA news.
• Huge opportunity to promote your citys
  environmental credentials
• Huge opportunity to learn off others
• Think about retaining information when
  implementing projects
• Contact us!