Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities Proceedings of the 10th International Conference IEECB&SC’18

These proceedings present fourteen peer-reviewed papers from the 10^th International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities, which was held March 21-22, 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany.  This biannual conference aims to promote and diffuse the concept of energy efficiency in new and existing commercial buildings and to enlarge the market for low consumption and sustainable non-residential buildings. It also covers smart and sustainable districts, communities and cities, since energy systems efficiency and renewable energies are often optimized at the district or municipal level. The 2018 conference focused on advanced and innovative technologies to improve the energy efficiency of commercial buildings, communities and cities as well as the policies and measures by governments at various levels to improve energy efficiency. A particular focus was on Energy Service Companies (ESCOs). The conference addresses energy policy makers at international, national, and local level; academics, researchers and energy efficiency experts; ESCOs, utilities, buildings energy and environmental managers; buildings engineers and architects; and equipment manufacturers and commercial property investors.

Chapter1: Demand side management in the services sector – empirical study on four European countries.- Chapter2: Energy consumption monitoring and building performances in a commercial building – Case study.- Chapter3: National Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Action for Lebanon.- Chapter4: DGNB framework for “carbon-neutral buildings and sites”.- Chapter5: Economic Appraisal of introducing Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector: Overview of existing economic methods with ex-post application to sustainable energy management program in Croatia.- Chapter6: Technological quality in process innovation for energy-renewable buildings.- Chapter7: EU Financed Life-Diademe Project: Additional Energy Savings in Street Lighting By Means Of Iot Sensors: A Case Study in Italy.- Chapter8: Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems as a sustainable option for retrofitting of office buildings in South East Europe.- Chapter9: Electric lighting predictions in the energy calculation methods.- Chapter10: A methodology to address the gap between calculated and actual energy performance in deep renovations of offices and hotels.- Chapter11: Financing models for energy efficiency in public buildings and street lighting in Germany and neighboring countries.- Chapter12: Day-ahead multi-objective energy optimization of a smart building in a dynamic pricing scenario.- Chapter13: Approach and decision-making process for sustainable retrofitting of commercial buildings.- Chapter14: Buildings efficiency models and the optimization of the district heating network for low-carbon transitions cities  

Dr. Paolo Bertoldi is Senior Expert at the European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Project Leader for the Energy Efficiency. He has been working with the European Commission since 1986,  first in the research department in the Joint European Taurus facility for nuclear fusion, then since 1993 at Directorate General Energy and Transport in Brussels Belgium, where he was in charge of EU regulatory and voluntary programs for energy efficiency in end-use equipment, buildings and industry. Since May 2001, he has been at the JRC in Ispra, Italy, in charge of research activities on energy efficiency policy analysis, the efficient use of and innovative policy instruments for energy efficiency. He managed the GreenLight, GreenBuilding, and Motor Challenge and Standby Initiative programs. He is a recognised expert on the Energy Service Company industry. He has published over 100 papers on energy efficiency in scientific journals and conference proceedings, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal, Energy Efficiency.  Dr. Bertoldi holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova.