Energy in buildings and communities technology collaboration programme

The Energy in Buildings and Communities TCP carries out research & development activities toward near-zero energy and carbon emissions in the built environment.

Executive Committee

EBC

The Energy in Buildings and Communities TCP mission is to develop and facilitate the integration of technologies and processes for energy efficiency. The EBC TCP Executive Committee Representatives for Ireland are Mr. Conor Hanniffy (SEAI) and Mr. Brian McIntyre (SEAI).

For further information, please visit the IEA EBC TCP webpage.

Conor Hanniffy

With a background in Mechanical Engineering and Project Management, Conor has over 20 year's programme management experience in private and public sectors.

Conor has previously managed SEAI's Accelerated Capital Allowance programme for energy efficient equipment, the Building Energy Rating Programme the Deep Retrofit Pilot Programme. Conor now manages the Energy Poverty Programme for SEAI and also actively engages with the research community and with other EU Member States to leverage both the evidence base and approach to inform strategic direction of SEAI programmes.

Contact: [email protected]

Brian McIntyre

Brian McIntyre is Programme Manager looking at the performance of technologies to deliver high-performance, low-energy homes. He has 17 years' experience in the Energy sector and has previously worked on SEAI's Deep Retrofit Pilot Programme and the Warmer Homes Scheme. He joined SEAI in 2017 having previously worked in the private sector providing consultancy to the public and private sector on policy, infrastructure and technology, including on Strategic Environmental Assessments of national policies.

Contact: [email protected]

Annexes

The aim of this Annex is to promote an understanding of the complex behaviour of air flow in buildings and to advance the effective application of associated energy saving measures in both the design of new buildings and the improvement of the existing building stock.

The Representatives for Annex 5 are Mr. Simon Jones (Aereco) and Dr. Marie Coggins (University of Galway).

For further information about the Annex, please visit the AIVC webpage.

The aim of this Annex is to investigate the potential of Software-as-a-Service innovation and intelligent data-driven building automation, in order to reduce energy use in buildings and enable buildings to participate as distributed energy resources in support of increased use of variable renewable electricity sources.

The Representatives for Annex 81 are Prof. Donal Finn (University College Dublin) and Assistant Prof. Fabiano Pallonetto (Maynooth University).

For further information about the Annex, please visit the Data-Driven Smart Buildings webpage.

The purpose of this Annex is to investigate research areas highlighted as gaps following the completion of Annex 67; that includes: scaling from single buildings to clusters of buildings (aggregation); energy flexibility and resilience in multi-carrier energy systems; acceptance / engagement of stakeholders; development of business models.

The Representatives for Annex 82 are Dr. Sarah O'Connell (University College Cork) and Prof. Donal Finn (University College Dublin).

For further information about the Annex, please visit the Energy Flexible Buildings webpage.

The aim of this Annex is to develop an in-depth definition of positive energy districts and the technologies, planning tools and the decision-making process related to positive energy districts. Experience and data to be used in the Annex will be gained from demonstration cases.

The Representative for Annex 83 is Dr. Pádraig Lyons (International Energy Research Centre).

For further information about the Annex, please visit the Energy Positive Districts webpage.

The aim of this Annex is to improve the energy efficiency of the indoor air quality management strategies in operation and to improve their acceptability, control, installation quality and long-term reliability.

The Representatives for Annex 86 are Dr. James McGrath (University of Galway) and Dr. Miriam Byrne (University of Galway).

For further information about the Annex, please visit the Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings webpage.

The BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology is an approach for integrated digital planning that carries the potential for significant improvements in building energy performance. The method foresees that information from stakeholders like architects, planners, modelers, constructors and even operators feed into the same data source - the BIM model.

The Representatives for Annex 91 are James O'Donnell (University College Dublin) and Sobia Bano (University College Dublin).

For further information about the Annex, please visit the Open BIM for Energy Efficient Buildings.

Archived Annexes

The aim of this Annex was to demonstrate how energy flexibility in buildings can provide generating capacity for energy grids, and to identify critical aspects and possible solutions to manage such flexibility.

This Task has now been completed. The Representatives for Annex 67 were Ms. Sarah O'Connell (National University of Ireland Galway) and Dr. Marcus Keane (National University of Ireland Galway).

For further information about the Annex, please visit the Energy Flexible Buildings webpage.

The aim of this Annex was to support decision-makers and investors in their efforts to transform to low carbon and energy-efficient building stock by focusing on developing best practice methods for collecting, accessing, analysing and developing models with empirical data of energy demand in buildings and communities.

The Representatives for Annex 70 were from the International Energy Research Centre.

For further information about the Annex, please visit the Building Energy Epidemiology webpage.

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