Manchester Project Meeting

On March 1-3, 2010 the SAVE ENERGY project held its 4th project meeting. After the Kick-off in Lisbon, and the project meetings in Lulea and Leiden, the SAVE ENERGY consortium was in Manchester to exchange ideas and check the current status of the development of the project. Dave Carter, Martine Tommis and Paul Hilton host the meeting at the MDDA.

Setting up the room for the Manchester Project Meeting

The meeting aimed at presenting the currents status of the 5 Living Lab pilots and to prepare the first project review meeting.

SAVE ENERGY at ICT4EE

SAVE ENERGY was present at the ICT4EE event in Brussels, on February 23 2010. We had the visit of Zoran Stančič Deputy Director General, DG Information Sociey and Media, European Commission, Patrizia Toia, MEP Vice-Chairwoman Committee on Industry, Research and Energy was accompanying the Deputy Director, Juan Tomás Hernani, Spanish General Secretary of Innovation, from the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Álvaro Oliveira received the illustrious visitors and gave them a presentation of the SAVE ENERGY projects.

Alvaro Oliveira hosting VIPs at the SAVE ENERGY booth

Leiden Project Meeting

We had our last project meeting in Leiden. Three busy days.

Follow Marc Witteman, the Vice-Mayor for Economy of the City of Leiden, in his twits. He champions the project in the City of Leiden.

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If want to learn more about the SAVE ENERGY project please check our videos at VIMEO.

You can learn much more about the implementation of the sensors at the Leiden Pilot through Youtube.

SAVE ENERGY Project

The SAVE ENERGY Project aims to transform the energy consumption behaviour of public building users – focusing on public servants and citizens – by applying existing ICT-based solutions, specifically real-time information from building management systems and serious games, in an innovative user-driven perspective. The project brought together 16 partners - including public authorities, public agencies, universities, research institutes, SMEs and corporations – to implement five large-scale pilots in five different countries (see Figure below) to test, benchmark, validate and  stimulate new strategies and actions to the wider uptake of energy-efficient behaviours.

Save Energy Pilots

The pilots are committed to implement energy efficiency policies and to cooperate for the evaluation of innovative ICT-based solutions covering a varied range of building envelopes, usage patterns, functional programmes and available technologies. From office spaces to public schools, the building management systems of the chosen spaces make available information about heating, air conditioning, ventilation, lighting, and other equipment or devices to be either distributed in real time or fed into serious game.  The real time information technologies used in the pilots also allow some level of controlling based on preferences, past knowledge or energy saving targets. While important savings are expected from enhanced building management systems and improved awareness of consumptions patterns and simulations, it is the direct transformation of behaviours related with energy efficient that is likely to bring the most results.
Check the SAVE ENERGY Pilots

The main objective of the SAVE ENERGY Project is to address the challenges to close the attitude-behaviour gap between the awareness that energy waste is a problem and behavioural transformation to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse emissions, globally considered as one of the greatest challenges facing the public climate change agenda.