Establishment of the national training center for nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB)

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif">Programme outcome the project contributes to: Increased capacity to implement nZEB standards. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="color: #000000">The overall objective of the project is to increase the capacity at the national level to implement the newly adopted, yet not utilized, nearly Zero Energy Building standard (nZEB). </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="color: #000000">Addressing poor energy performance of public buildings is at the core of Croatian energy strategies and action plans. The newly implemented building standard – nearly zero energy building (nZEB) is adopted, however the real implementation is still lagging behind. One of the growing issues in Croatia today is how to efficiently transfer the respective regulations and recently developed methodologies regarding nZEB standards to all the key stakeholders. This project will therefor support the key stakeholders to realize all the benefits of nZEB standard. The project will prove that nZEB approach, although innovative, is optimal and cost-effective solution for renovation of public buildings. Project also aims to capitalize on results of the key Norwegian initiatives, developed by the well-known research institution SINTEF, regarding nZEB and zero emission neighbourhoods. &nbsp; </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="color: #000000">This objective will be achieved specifically by the following main activities:</span></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="color: #000000">Development of all the required documentation needed for achieving nZEB standard while retrofitting the existing public building </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="color: #000000">Deep retrofit of the existing public building with state-of-the-art technologies which will be thoroughly documented and monitored by the group of nZEB experts </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="color: #000000">Design of the training programme and project development assistance for nZEB projects for the neighbourhood with the action plan on how to achieve the zero-emission neighbourhood </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif">Established cooperation with Norwegian scientific institutions and other nZEB initiatives&nbsp; </span></span></li> </ul>

Project partners

• Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb Project partner· Croatia