2nd Working Meeting [April 2021]
THE EBC Annex 83 held its second Working Meeting on 21st and 22nd of April 2021. Around 100 participants from 23 countries took part in several sessions held online. The subtask leaders shared the current status of their groups work and presented the next planned steps.
Since last Working Meeting, Subtask A worked on first version of ST-A data collection table. Subtask B organised two workshops, developed a first version of the PED cases technology review and created a repository for open-source database for PEDs. Subtask C presented the current status of the creation of the repository and informed about upcoming workshop on PED KPIs which will be held on 19-22 of October. Subtask D shared an update on demo case template creation and ongoing collection of PED guidelines. Additionally, all subtasks are working on publications.
Moreover, from now on Annex 83 has Twitter account @Annex83_IEA which we strongly suggest to follow.
The next Working Meeting is planned for 23-24 of September 2021.
Newsletter 1 [March 2021]
Next Working Meeting
The Working Meeting of the Annex will be on 21–22 April 2021. Please find the tentative agenda of the meeting from the following Teams link.
Annex 83 PhD students network
In order to create connection between PhD students who are participating in the Annex for collaboration in their research and publications, a survey has been initiated. PhD students are kindly asked to fill out their data from this Teams link indicating their name, email address, affiliation, country, tentative thesis title or main research filed, brief description about the PhD research, and in which subtask they are participating. Please note that there will be a special session (PhD Talk) on the 2nd day of the next Annex Working Meeting (22 April 2021), where some students can present the progress of their PhD research and can discuss with other students.
Session in the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings
Annex 83 is arranging a special session (IS13: Positive Energy Districts) in the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-21, 15-17 September 2021 http://seb-21.kesinternational.org/index.php. Two papers from each subtask of the Annex are planned in this session. Deadline for submission is 4th June.
Annex 83 publications
The first publication of the Annex has been published in Buildings Journal.
Title “IEA EBC Annex83 Positive Energy Districts”. Authors: Åsa Hedman, Hassam Ur Rehman, Andrea Gabaldón, Adriano Bisello, Vicky Albert-Seifried, Xingxing Zhang, Francesco Guarino, Steinar Grynning, Ursula Eicker, Hans-Martin Neumann, Pekka Tuominen and Francesco Reda. Buildings 2021, 11(3), 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11030130