News
High Level Event at the European Parliament - 17th March 2016 in Brussels
The neZEH High Level Event “Nearly Zero Energy Hotels for Achieving Low Carbon Growth in Europe” took place successfully at the European Parliament in Brussels on the 17th of March 2016, hosted by the Member of the European Parliament Mrs. Maria Grapini (S&D Romania).
The event aimed at driving the attention to the regional, national and European policy makers to commit to a zero energy growth in the tourism sector, reducing legislative barriers and introducing supporting measures. More than 65 participants representing different policy makers, such as: Members of the European Parliament, European Commission, UNWTO, National authorities, NECSTouR Regional authorities, as well as private sector representatives from the tourism and energy efficiency arena, took part of this high level event.
Read the press release of the event.
neZEH at CLIMAMED 2015, 10-11 September, Juan-les-Pin, France
REHVA will organise a workshop around the neZEH project during CLIMAMED 2015 on 10-11 September in Juan-les-Pins, France. The workshop High energy performance hotels on track to nearly zero energy buildings co-chaired by Stefano Corgnati, REHVA President-elect and by Theocharis Tsoutsos, neZEH Project Coordinator will present key result of the project.
Hotels are a good example of buildings where energy is used not only for climatic control but also for providing services to the guests. The neZEH project took the challenge of defining country specific numerical nZEB benchmarks for refurbished hotel buildings in the 6 partner countries (Croatia, Greece, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden), where 14 pilot hotels were selected to receive technical assistance to plan their deep energy retrofit investments. The workshop will briefly introduce the project and highlight some of the selected case study hotels from Italy and France presented by the project partners in charge for technical assistance. The aim is to initiate a discussion about the feasibility as well as the technical and non-technical challenges of nZEB refurbishment in the hospitality sector.
More information and registration are available on the event website!
Nearly Zero Energy Hotels Conference - 24 June 2015, Nice, France
neZEH organises a project conference in Nice on 25 June 2015 linked to the Innovative City Convention 2015 event. The whole-day conference targets representatives of the tourism sector, regional and local policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the sustainable tourism sector. The conference will highlight case studies of high energy performing hotels and report about the first achievements concerning the neZEH pilot hotels. 14 pilot hotels were selected to receive technical assistance from the project to plan their deep energy retrofit investments.
CALL FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS: Are you involved in a project or research activity related to nearly Zero Energy buildings, energy retrofit of buildings or energy efficiency financing schemes within the tourism sector? Send now your abstract describing your work and have a chance for a visual presentation (poster) during the neZEH 2015 Conference. Deadline for submissions : 15th May 2015
More information and registration are available on the event website.
RCEPB 2014 Romanian Conference Energy Performance of Buildings - Active Smart Buildings - A New Challenge for Energy Auditors - Bucharest, 5-6 June 2014
Some general information and the key technical outcomes of Nearly Zero Energy Hotels project, work package 2 (Experience and viability of nZE refurbishment projects) lead by REHVA, were presented by REHVA project assistant Andrei Lițiu in the RCEPB 2014 which is the most important Romanian scientific event about energy efficiency, sustainable buildings, design, construction and renewable energy. The floor was shared with Camelia Rață, executive director of ABMEE, who presented the current status of neZEH implementation in Romania which focused on the selection of the pilot hotels. Download Andrei Lițiu's presentation by clicking here. Download Camelia Rață's presentation by clicking here. (The second presentation is available only in Romanian)
REHVA Annual Conference "Energy efficient, smart and healthy buildings" - Düsseldorf, 30 April 2014, 09:00 - 15:00 CET
First outcomes of the Nearly Zero Energy Hotels project were presented by REHVA vice-president Stefano P. Corgnati in the REHVA Annual Conference on 30 April 2014 in Düsseldorf. REHVA was in charge for defining initial criteria of an nZEB hotel, taking into account both the EU regulation on nZEB and the special features and needs of hotel buildings and the hospitality sector. Based on these requirements hotels are selected in each partner country as project pilots thus refurbishment plans and feasibility studies for each selected hotel will be developed by the end of the project. Stefano P. Corgnati presented also an existing nZEB hotel example, Stadhalle Boutique Hotel Vienna, which is the first net zero energy hotel in Europe. The case study was also published in the REHVA Journal issue 3/2014 disseminated during the Conference.
This project is supported by the European Commission under IEE - II