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The Department of Utility Planning and Supply Engineering (VPT) at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Design at the UdK Berlin conducts research in the field of conceptual design and development of energy-efficient building energy systems as well as urban quarters. This includes the development of suitable simulation methods and model libraries as well as the conception, prototypical implementation and evaluation of innovative energy efficient building and urban district concepts (see https://www.udk-berlin.de/studium/architektur/fachgebiete/versorgungsplanung-und-versorgungstechnik/forschung/).
In previous research projects, the VPT department developed GIS-based approaches for obtaining building-specific energy building parameters based on publicly available building information, combined them with methods for physically based building simulation, and used them for energy-related urban district analysis. This parameterization and simulation approach was applied to a number of different Berlin city quarters, for example to a redevelopment area in Berlin Neukölln, to the building stock of the university campus Berlin-Charlottenburg and to about 1000 public buildings of the state of Berlin.
In the EnergyMap Berlin project, the VPT department is developing a novel AI-based forecasting model for the building-specific heating energy demand of Berlin's residential and non-residential building stock. For this purpose, an extensive data set of building-specific energy-related parameters and energy consumption values is being created in cooperation with the research partners, which serves as the basis for training the statistical Ki models.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is an inner-city district of Berlin with more than 341,000 inhabitants (Dec. 2020) living in an area of about 65 km2. The administration of the district, the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf District Office of Berlin, actively contributes to the goal of making Berlin climate neutral by 2045 through the activities of its departments and offices.
In climate protection, the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district office is particularly active in implementing and supporting energy-related district concepts. Within the framework of projects as well as with various planning procedures, the goal is pursued of modernizing the heat supply of neighborhoods in a climate-friendly manner in order to reduce heat-related CO2 emissions, which account for the largest share of the corresponding emissions in the city. The energy and CO2 balancing of neighborhoods, cooperative planning approaches, stakeholder activation and functional cooperation and consulting formats are used for this purpose.
In EnergyMap Berlin, the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is particularly concerned with the activation of various social actors (tenants, owners, civil society organizations) who can contribute to the cause of a "municipal heat turnaround" in a highly heterogeneous inner-city existing neighborhood, as well as the area-wide collection of building-specific energy consumption data, primarily on a voluntary basis. This actual data will be used to evaluate and improve the forecasting quality of the data obtained with statistical and model-based methods.
As a non-profit consulting company based in Berlin, co2online has been committed to energy efficiency and climate protection since 2003. The focus here is on user-centeredness, monitoring and evaluation of efficiency measures. With its interdisciplinary team, co2online implements campaigns, projects and research projects for national and international clients and funding bodies. For more than 15 years, co2online has been developing web-based consulting tools in the field of energy efficiency and climate protection together with SEnerCon GmbH. For this purpose, co2online uses the more than 2 million building and energy consumption data provided by the users of the Energy Saving Checks. In the portal wohngebäude.info, co2online publishes nationwide evaluations of the energy consumption of buildings and makes the open source data available to third parties free of charge.
The Potsdam-based engineering company LUP (https://www.lup-umwelt.de/) is one of the leading service providers in eastern Germany for environmental planning, remote sensing and geoinformatics on the federal, state and municipal level. For more than 20 years, more than 400 projects have been carried out, including research and development projects predominantly focusing on the development of indicator-based environmental monitoring and assessment systems. In the project area of climate protection and climate change, LUP has acted as an expert in numerous projects for federal states and municipalities in a leading role or within expert teams. In the LUP team, biologists, geo-/ecologists, geographers, forest scientists, engineers, planners and computer scientists work hand in hand. The team currently consists of more than 20 employees.
In mid-2019, LUP created the energetic building model of the state of Berlin for the third time as a basis for the Berlin Energy and Climate Protection Program (BEK) (after 2009 as part of the feasibility study CO2-neutral Berlin and 2013/14 as part of the BEK expert opinion). This involved using remote sensing to generate a complete 3D model of the state, calculating volume and envelope information of Berlin's building stock, attributing it with existing information on use, typology, building age, etc., and dividing it into energetically effective clusters. The [EnGeMBer2019] is used to determine the final energy consumption of the building sector as a subset of the fields of action Economy as well as Private Households of the Berlin Energy Balance (AfS), as well as to qualify measures in the context of the update of the BEK. The [EnGeMBer2019] is the current state of approximately 550,000 building objects with energy characteristics in the state of Berlin and thus closes the gap from the official cadastre and other 3D city models in Berlin. In addition, LUP develops and operates the digital monitoring and information system of the Berlin Energy and Climate Protection Program (diBEK) on behalf of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection. The core of diBEK is the collection, processing and presentation of all target achievement indicators of all climate protection measures of the state of Berlin (https://www.dibek.berlin.de).
Since its foundation, SEnerCon GmbH has been active in the field of internet-based energy consulting. The focus is on the collection of energy consumption data, their evaluation and the communicative preparation of results for the customer (private and commercial). In order to achieve a wide reach in consulting and thus for climate protection, SEnerCon has focused from the beginning on the development of automated online energy consulting tools, which are used in nationwide and Europe-wide climate protection projects. EnergyMap also uses some of these tools, such as HeizCheck for checking heating costs, ModernisierungsCheck for impulse consulting for modernizations and Energiesparkonto as an energy monitoring system for consumers and companies. In part, these tools are adapted to the project requirements. In addition, SEnerCon is responsible in the EnergyMap project for investigating data protection issues in the individual steps from data provision to the publication of building-specific energy consumption data.
The joint project EnergyMap Berlin is coordinated by the project partner UdK Berlin.
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Nytsch-Geusen
University of Arts Berlin
Institute for Architecture and Urbanism
Department of Supply Planning and Building Technology (VPT)
- Einsteinufer 43-53, 10587 Berlin
- nytsch@udk-berlin.de
- Webpage of department VPT
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