Co-benefits of energy related building renovation: demonstration of their impact on the assessment of energy related building renovation (Annex 56)

"Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme, March 2017"The renovation of the existing building stock represents a huge potential in actions to mitigate climate change, not only by the improvement of the overall energy performance of the built environment, but also by the reduction of resource depletion and minimization of waste production related with new construction. Nevertheless, this potential hasn?t been fully explored. Contributing to this, the evaluation of building renovation measures normally considers only the energy savings and the costs, disregarding other relevant benefits and thus, significantly underestimating the full value of improvement and re-use of buildings at several levels of the economy. In IEA EBC Annex 56 project, the reduction of energy use, emissions and global costs are the direct benefits resulting from energy related renovation measures and the notion of co benefits refers to all the other positive or negative effects resulting from those renovation measures.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Contextualizing Violence Prevention – How Contextual Aspects Influence the Implementation of a Violence Prevention Initiative in Prisons and Psychiatry

The aim of this study was to investigate which contextual aspects and mechanisms are decisive in the implementation of an integrated, tailored intervention to prevent violence and threats of violence from patients or inmates towards employees in psychiatric units and in prisons and detention centers. Based on a standardized implementation degree assessment of fidelity, reach and dose delivered, we selected two workplace cases from each sector, one with a high and one with a low implementation degree. Using a realist evaluation framework, we conducted a thematic analysis of the four selected workplace cases to identify prevalent contextual aspects and mechanisms underlying the implementation degree. We found that prioritization, synergy with parallel change processes, and intervention fit, were decisive mechanisms for the successful implementation of the intervention. We also found that lack of resources (staff instability, insufficient time, poor mental resources) and resource-demanding parallel change processes, were contextual aspects that “blocked” all mechanisms. That is, when resources were not available, none of the mechanisms for implementing the intervention was activated. Our findings point to the importance of investigating the role of contextual aspects when assessing the effectiveness of organizational interventions

Energy consumption in an old residential building before and after deep energy renovation

AbstractDenmark is participating in IEA EBC Annex 56 “Cost Effective Energy and Carbon Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation”. The housing complex Traneparken has been chosen as a Danish case study for the project. It has been retrofitted with new facades, new windows, additional insulation, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery and a photo-voltaic installation on the roof. The measured energy consumption for heating and domestic hot water before and after renovation was 736 MWh/year and 506 MWh/year respectively. Hereby, the project has demonstrated that the renovation resulted in significant energy savings.This paper presents results from the Danish case study