Green Deal ARV is featured on Green Deal Project Support Office website as the success stories of ARV.

About the Project:

ARV, named after the Norwegian word for “heritage” or “legacy” aims to create climate positive circular communities in Europe and increase the building renovation rate on the continent. The project’s work started in January 2022. The ARV project aims to demonstrate and validate attractive, resilient and affordable solutions that significantly speed-up not only deep energy renovations in four different climatic zones in Europe but the deployment of energy and climate measures in the construction and energy industries. Since the project works towards the implementation of climate-positive circular communities in Europe, focusing on net zero-emission buildings and neighbourhoods, ARV will provide guidelines and a policy framework for future energy-efficient, circular and digital solutions in the construction industry.

Description of success

Firstly, the ARV demo in Palma developed and tested a method for cost-optimal retrofitting, which is a two-step methodology that aims to support the selection of cost-optimal solutions for retrofitting buildings in a large-scale renovation process. The methodology helps select the most appropriate combination of passive elements (e.g., adding different insulation materials with different thicknesses and/or windows) and active elements (e.g., heat pumps/multi-split air conditioning for heating, cooling, and Domestic Hot Water (DWH) and/or photovoltaics), to select the option with the best energy performance and economic parameters.

Secondly, VR and AR are being used during the development of the Oslo and Palma ARV demonstration buildings. These allow for better communication results in different scenarios. The development of VR and AR applications is targeted towards several distinct stakeholders (city planners and policymakers) and citizen user groups (e.g., school children, the common public, inhabitants and infrastructure users, and service personnel). The tool helps overcome the challenges of testing real-world scenarios.

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