Acronym
ECO-LIFE
Code
41A01209
Duration
01 January 2010 → 30 June 2016
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Architectural design
- Architecture
- Art studies and sciences
- Interior architecture
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Engineering and technology
- Architectural engineering
- Architecture
- Building engineering
- Interior architecture
- Power electronics
- Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering
Keywords
energy performance assessment
district heating
zero-carbon
renewable energy
neighbourhoods
rational use of energy
sustainable building
building services
passive house
energy monitoring
zero-energy
quality assurance tests
residential buildings
buildingphysics
Project description
In three European countries (Belgium, Denmark and Lithuania), urban areas are transformed into sustainable zero-carbon communities. Innovative energy efficiency measures and technologies with 100% renewable energy sources are demonstrated and integrated in an overall sustainable neighbourhood design. The building physics section of Ghent University leads the energy monitoring and performance assessment of the communities, buildings and technologies (http://www.ecolife-project.eu/index.html).