MESTRI-CE - Smart Management and Green Financing for Sustainable and Climate Neutral Buildings in CE

Project partners

• North-West Croatia 
• Regional Energy and Climate Agency (REGEA)
• Casaclima Energieagentur Südtirol
• Energieagentur Nordbayern
• Mazovia Energy Agency
• Institut Jožef Stefan
• IPOPEMA Financial Advisory
• Green Energy Cooperative
• Funderbeam South-East Europe d.o.o.
• Energie Agentur Steiermark

Project description

The European Green Deal and the "Renovation Wave Strategy" have identified buildings as a key area for advancing the EU's decarbonization goal. However, inefficient buildings, insufficient high-quality data on building performance and thermal conditions, and a lack of comprehensive tools for sustainable building data management, means that Central Europe is still lagging in implementing the EU renovation goals.

The MESTRI-CE project aims to develop a methodology to support the implementation of new EU requirements, including implementing uniform building standards, adequate data management systems, technical and economic assessments, potential savings predictions, and verification and reporting. Consequently, the MESTRI-CE project establishes a new investment model to finance more climate-friendly buildings that guarantee sustainability.

e7 leads the work package 1 ‘Smart Data Management’ and supports EASt (Energy Agency Styria) in the implementation of further activities in Austria. An important task was to carry out a thorough market analysis of available systems for building and data management, especially for building portfolios. On this basis, the MESTRI-CE Smart Data Hub is being developed. The MESTRI-CE SDH is a tool that can make an important contribution to the evaluation, categorisation and allocation of data and renovation measures. Buildings are documented in detail and thermally simulated; renovation measures are then proposed based on the existing data and simulations. This allows energy savings and costs to be estimated and the performance of the building or an entire portfolio to be clearly visualised. To test these functionalities, the tool is being trialled in pilot projects in 5 countries. The focus here is on different building portfolios.

Together with Scandens and the MESTRI-CE project partners, e7 is working on an efficient way to assess individual buildings and building portfolios, visualise their condition and draw up a renovation roadmap. This should not only ensure that the energy efficiency of existing buildings is increased, but also that financing decisions can be made with accuracy.