Keep Cool II 
Transforming the market from “cooling” to “sustainable summer comfort”
European project with 12 partners from nine European countries on sustainable summer comfort for office and public buildings.
Keep Cool geht zu Ende und ein weiteres interessantes Ergebnis ist der Leitfaden, um Planer für energieeffiziente Gebäude zu finden. Dabei bezieht sich dieser Leitfaden nicht nur auf nachhaltigen Sommerkomfort, sondern auf energieeffizientes Bauen und Sanieren im Allgemeinen. Der Leitfaden "Geeignete Planer finden..." kann hier heruntergeladen werden.
Keep Cool aims to contribute reducing fossil energy for cooling needs all over Europe. For the purpose of climate protection this is a crucial point in the further development of energy efficiency especially in the building stock. The Keep Cool project has a special regard to existing buildings and refurbishment activities for the tertiary sector.
The overall cooling needs for office and administration buildings in the EU were at 193 PJ or 53.610 GWh in 2000. Some estimations assume a doubling from 3 m2 cooled building surface to 6 m2 in the year 2020 if no reduction efforts will be taken. Here you find a summary of some results of the Keep Cool project in German for download.
Here you find guidelines for introducing sustainable summer comfort in negotiations with planners, tenants, landlords:
- Checklist for evaluating bids (Download)
- Checklist for dialogue tenant - landlord (Download)
- Guidelines for negotiation tenant - landlord (in German) (Download)
In the Keep Cool Newsletters the project results will be presented in loose succession.
- The newsletter for July can now be downloaded here (in German).
- The second Newsletter from November 2009 now available (Download in German).
Keep Cool now with new homepage!
Project results:
WP 2 Barriers against the broad market penetretion of sustainable summer comfort
- Report on rules and practices (Download pdf-file)
- Recommendations for building codes (Download pdf-file)
WP 3 Introducing sustainable summer comfort in the public sector
Hier finden Sie alle Leitfäden für das öffentliche Beschaffungswesen (in Englisch)
- Guidelines for public procurement of designers and planners (Download pdf-file)
- 10 Good practice examples (Download pdf-file)
- Recommendations for public bodies acting as landlords (Download pdf-file)
- Recommendations for public bodies acting as tenants (Download pdf-file)
- Compendium "Strategies for sustainable summer comfort in public buildings" (Download pdf-file)
Das Kompendium fasst alle Handbücher für die öffentliche Beschaffung zusammen.
WP 4 Assessment of energy savings related to sustainable summer comfort
Hier finden Sie die ausführlichen Ergebnisse der simulierten Zweckgebäude (in Englisch).
- Base case analysis (Download als pdf)
- Suitability analysis (Download als pdf)
- Evaluation methodologies (Download als pdf)
WP 5 Tool kit
- Report on available products (Download pdf-file)
WP 7 Input to legislation and regulation
- National analysis report (Download pdf-file)
The first Keep Cool project focused especially on detecting sustainable cooling methods and good practice examples for office and other public buildings. The results from this project are provided now in the so called "Tool Kit". There planners, architects, engineers and all people involved in the construction and maintanance of office buildings find helpfull adresses of experts, available cooling technologies and good practice examples from the participating countries.
One objective of Keep Cool II will be to extend and update this data base.
So the second project Keep Cool II wants to enlarge the experience gained from the first part. Hence a main focus of the new project lies on dissemination activities but also on revising existing material and modeling base cases for sustainable summer comfort.
Project partners in Keep Cool II and passive cooled office building ENERGON in Germany
The partners:
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft ERNEUERBARE ENERGIE, Institute for Sustainable Technologies (AEE INTEC), Austria: www.aee-intec.at
- Consultores en Energia, CDA (CEEETA ECO), Portugal: www.ceeeta.pt
- Austrian Energy Agency (AEA), Austria: www.energyagency.at
- Association pour la Recherche et le Développement des Méthodes et Processus Industriel (ARMINES), France: www.ensmp.fr
- Österreichisches Forschungs- und Prüfzentrum Arsenal Ges.m.b.H. (ARSENAL), Austria: www.arsenal.ac.at
- Building and Civil Enginieering Institute (BCEI ZRMK), Slovenia: www.gi-zrmk.si
- European Solar Shading Organization (ES-SO), Belgium, Sweden: www.somfy.se
- National Institute of Enginieering Technology and Innovation (INETI), Portugal: www.ineti.pt
- London Metropolitan University (LNU), UK: www.londonmet.ac.uk
- Swedish Energy Agency (STEM), Sweden:www.energimyndigheten.se
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Energetica: www.eerg.it
Project Fact sheet for download
Keep Cool II: Short presentation of the project goals and contents.
So the focus slightly changed from sustainable cooling to sustainable summer comfort as a service. This aspect is more comprehensive as summer comfort is more then only cooling a building. It covers e.g. procuring guidelines concerning reducing inner loads of buildings by purchasing energy efficient lighting systems and IT equipment. But it also follows up existing construction material and methods, standards and legislation on the subject.
At least the new Keep Cool intensifies the contacts with existing networks of professionals such as planers, architects, craftsmen etc. It also aims at creating and fostering new contacts and boosting so called “packaging solutions”. This means that different target groups or information needs will be pooled for finding out common solutions for some aspects of sustainable summer comfort.
Direct outcomes:
• Increased awareness among building owners, planners and suppliers on how to ask for and to sell “summer comfort” as a service;
• Stronger cooperation of the different professional branches as a result of the dissemination activities in the professional networks;
• Comprehensive information material in different languages for local or national initiatives and networks;
• Recommendations for sustainable summer comfort incorporated in either public procurement schemes, national building regulations or the Energy Efficiency Action Plans (EEAP) in every participating country;
• New design rules for cooling systems and innovative remuneration schemes;
• The results of the project are demanded or already used in at least 5 countries which are not directly participating in the project
8 Work packages in two, partly overlapping periods:
WP 2-5: analysis and technical input (month 1-18)
WP 6-9: Market transformation by dissemination activities (month 19-30)
In the first part of the project the information basis will be enlarged and the experience of Keep Cool I will be updated and accentuated. So barriers for realising sustainable summer comfort will be addressed, procurement guidelines for the public sector will be developed and the toolkit from the first project will be updated. A new aspect is the assessment of energy savings and the input on national energy efficiency plans. The second part of the project is focussing on dissemination activities on national and international level as well as on input to legislation and standardisation activities and also to remuneration schemes for building designers, engineers, architects etc.
Access to the internal section for the partners: www.izesfiles.de
This project is funded by the Intelligent Energy Europe (EIE) programme.
Orderer: European Commission
runtime of the project: 2007-2010
project coordinator: Barbara Dröschel, droeschel@izes.de