CROSS ASSESSMENT OF ENERGY CERTIFICATES IN EUROPE: CROSSCERT
Towards reliable, practical, and people-centred European energy performance certification of buildings.
Resources of Past Events
Final Webinar: Energy Performance Assessment and Certification of Buildings: The future of EPCs
The final crossCert Webinar presenting 3 years of research results
Webinar: New perspectives for impactful communication campaigns on energy-efficient renovations
28 August 2024 | 11:00 – 12:00 | online
Presentations of the Policy Conference
23. 05. 2024, Brussels, Belgium
Workshop: Designing the Perfect EPC – What works for you?
20.03.2024 - 09:30 - 12:30 CET
Webinar: Funding Options for Energy-Efficient Building Renovations Across Europe
27.02.2024 10:30 – 12:00 CET
Webinar: Upgrading EPCs for new challenges
Do all EU countries have to prepare for the same costs of the EPBD?
Energy Efficient Buildings: Next Generation Energy Performance Certificates
28/09/2022 | A crossCert powered NextGenEPC Cluster Event | Luxemburg
FEDARENE Energy Workshops
15/06/2022 | FEDARENE Energy Workshops | León, Spain
PrioritEE PLUS Final Conference
13/06/2022 | organised by PrioritEE PLUS | Tito Scalo, Italy and online
Austria: The next generation of EPCs – kick-off webinar
31/05/2022 | organised by AEA | Online
Latest Publications
Towards Reliable, Practical, and People-Centred European Energy Performance Certification of Buildings
Main Project Results in a Nutshell
The final summary of results publication of the crossCert project. You can learn about technical guidelines for developing EPCs inlcuding assessment methodologies, quality control procedures, the performance gap, the path towards next-generation EPC metrics as well as ways to increasing the value of EPCs by making EPCs more people-centred. We also explore if and how harmonising EPCs in Europe could work by recommendations based on our cross testing results, as well as detailed analysis on how quality control frameworks can be standardised whilst allowing for country-specific flexibility.
A Comparative Study of Energy Performance Certificates across Europe
As further innovations are designed for EPCs at the EU level, this study demonstrates why incorporating a bottom-up understanding of country-specific EPCs will be necessary for successful implementation.
Proposed harmonised verification framework for quality checking EPC outputs
The report focuses on examining critical aspects of Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) assessments that influence quality control, aiming to standardize these processes across Europe.
Infographics: The EPC Journey, The Assessors' View, The EPC Design, Promotion and marketing
These Infographics will help you to get a better idea of what is implied in the process of designing, assessing, promoting and obtaining an EPC.
Open Database for EPC Testing
This is an open database of building data for selected buildings in the EU and UK countries participating in crossCert. This information can be used by third parties for testing and benchmarking Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)
Poster: Using the building certification methodology of another country: What have we learned?
This poster was presented at WSED summerizing the results of the cross-testing activities, focused on the experiment on building energy performance certificates (EPCs).
Cross-country comparison of format and nature of recommended improvements in different EPCs
This report summarises the recommendations in EPC documents across chosen European countries, focusing on those relevant to the crossCert project.
Analysis of the current integration of EPC data
This analysis focuses on the integration of EPCs in the Administration databases and aims to identify the current status of the existing databases and the barriers and challenges still to overcome to achieve fully interoperable and useful EPC databases across Europe.
CrossCert Benchmark Repository
The crossCert Building Repository provides complex essential building data for testing and validating EPC models. This repository provides the detailed information needed to develop building energy models.
How crossCert achieves its aims
The project is based on knowledge exchange between European stakeholders on existing and new EPCs in several Member States. This exchange includes extensive cross-certification between European countries and the establishment of an internet-based EPC Knowledge Exchange Centre. The partners recommend procedures and guidelines to ensure the quality and value of the new EPCs and that they meet the new EU requirements. This procedure consists of assessing the new EPC indicators (such as accuracy, data integration, replicability, understandability, verifiability or data use). A methodology is developed to assess them in a quantifiable way. The new EPC approaches are improved by analysing certification experiences and results and tested along existing and new EPCs.
Guidelines for the development of people-friendly EPC products and services integrate new (and evolving) EPC approaches and capacities for tailored application at the level of individual EU Member States. New procedures and features are recommended to achieve end-user acceptance of next-generation EPCs. To this end, both existing and future certification procedures are tested in more than 140 buildings in ten Member States.
Cross Assessment of Energy Certificates in Europe
CrossCert contributes to the success of the next-generation EPCs (Energy Performance Certificates) by elaborating and testing guidelines and recommendations that achieve:
- Improved accuracy and usability of the certificate.
- A people-centric design and satisfactory user experience.
- Increased homogeneity across Europe.
This Horizon 2020 project creates a product testing methodology for the new energy performance certificate of buildings approaches. The crossCert project:
- is cross-testing among energy authorities current Energy Performance Certificates and the new approaches/concepts/initiatives, using more than 140 buildings in 10 European countries, and creating a public benchmarking repository of test cases.
- Compares and analyses the results between different approaches.
- Elaborates policy recommendations, which include potential improvements on the accuracy, usability and harmonisation.
- Engages networks and alliances for analysis and for outreach.
Our results:
- A public benchmark repository.
- Technical guidelines for the next generation of EPCs.
- Guidelines and tools for the exploitation of EPC data.
- Guidelines for people-centred EPCs.
- Recommendations for the harmonisation of next generation EPCs.
- An EPC knowledge exchange centre. A web-based repository of information on EPC approaches.
- An EPC community forum.