EnEff2050Begleit – Competition and Project Support within the Framework of the Funding Initiative Innovative Projects for the Virtually Climate-Neutral Building Stock 2050

The Federal Government's Energy Efficiency Strategy for Buildings (Energieeffizienzstrategie Gebäude, ESG) is based on the goal of making the building stock virtually climate-neutral by 2050. To this end, the non-renewable primary energy demand is to be reduced by a combination of energy saving and the use of renewable energies by the year 2050 in the order of 80% compared to the year 2008. This ambitious task can be accomplished by accelerating the implementation of innovations, new technologies and concepts, and the transfer of findings from many years of research. With the funding initiative "EnEff.Gebäude.2050" within the framework of the ESG, the transfer of research results to a broad impact is to be initiated and accelerated in a targeted manner. The project accompanies this transfer from research to the broad field.

During the course of the project, various measures and approaches will be pursued in order to put research findings into practice. These are:

• Support and further development of an ideas competition in the tradition of the "Solar Decathlon" as an energy efficiency competition for students. Among other things, the further development should give the possibility to apply the competition results on the basis of real construction tasks on site.
• Scientific examination of the interface between research and application practice in the network of doctoral students with a focus on various topics.
• Development and implementation of a concept for knowledge transfer between research and crafts.
• Accompanying research of the funding line "EnEff.Gebäude.2050": Documentation and cross-evaluation of the projects in the funding line on the following topics: Reduction potential of greenhouse gases and primary energies and approaches to reducing performance gaps, e.g. business models, quality assurance processes

The following activities will be carried out within the project:

• Ideas competition:
  Joint execution of the ideas competition for the further development of an energy efficiency competition in the sense of the "Solar Decathlon" together with PTj, BMWi, and sol-id-ar planungswerkstatt berlin. Subsequently, the further development of the winning concepts will be supported. The results and findings from the ideas competition will be included in the IEA Annex 74 "Competition and Living Lab".
• Network of doctoral students:
  Relevant topics for the scientific examination of the interface between research and application practice were being developed and vacancies filled. The topics are:
  • Business models for energy efficiency
  • Quality assurance and its realization in the construction sector
  • Development of remediation strategies for neighborhoods
  • Teaching BIM (Building Information Modeling)
  • Disruptive technical concepts for buildings
• Concept development for knowledge transfer between craft and research:
  • Discussion rounds with representatives of crafts enterprises, associations, chambers of crafts, vocational schools and product manufacturers to find a concept.
  • Implementation of the pilot project "SHK4FutureEnergysystems" with vocational students and  students from a university of applied science in order to explore in a joint workplace environment innovative building technologies in construction practice. Together with students from the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences and vocational students from a vocational school in Freiburg, a sea container was converted into an energy self-sufficient information point with all aspects of sanitary, heating and air-conditioning. This whole process was accompanied and evaluated by a social science research team. The finished, mobile information point will be used at job and study orientation fairs and will be of use to the aforementioned branches of industry and thematically related courses of study (supply technology/energy system technology) in recruiting young talents. (Note: If you are interested in the use of the container, you are welcome to send a request to the project management.)
• Accompanying research: Conducting telephone interviews on key topics and planned work on reduction potentials of greenhouse gas emissions within the projects as well as workshops to exchange projects among each other, with the PTJ, a German project management agency.