Advanced data platforms to integrate whole life carbon in building information tools, assessments, and certification (Built4People Partnership)

 

SCOPE & EXPECTED OUTCOMES :

 

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive recast places an increased emphasis on addressing whole life carbon and the calculation of the global warming potential of buildings as part of its holistic approach to enhancing building sustainability. Several projects have focused on developing data analytics tools to integrate building energy performance certificates with other tools (SRI, BRP, and Digital Building Logbooks) into a unified framework or global information tool.

More work is needed to integrate whole life carbon data in energy information tools to capture both operational carbon and embodied carbon, as well as the carbon removal in sustainably sourced construction products.

Proposals are expected to address all of the following:

• Demonstrate digital data exchange platforms for buildings to enable the development of comprehensive building information tools, assessments and/or certificates.
• Use advanced data analytics and wherever possible existing recognised data standards to exchange data and ensure the interoperability with real-time digital twins and BIM-based models.
• Validate the proposed platforms in at least three large scale pilots. These pilots must encompass a range of building types (such as residential, commercial, educational, etc.) and address diverse use cases (including energy monitoring, renovation optimization, etc.).

 

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increased number of building information tools, assessments and/or certificates makes use of digital data exchange platforms;
• More accurate and reliable EU-aligned life cycle inventories of embodied environmental flows in construction materials and products;
• Increased number of already existing building standards and certification schemes refer to GWP to support national decarbonisation strategies in line with relevant European legislation;
• Improved data availability and interoperability for whole life carbon assessments across different building lifecycle stages.

 

The consortium should gather at least 3 independent legal entities. These partners must be from 3 different countries (EU or Associated), with at least one from an EU Member State.

Must be established in an EU Member State or Associated Country, or a third country as explicitly eligible in Horizon Europe.

Any legal entity with operational and financial capacity can participate: 

• Universities and research organisations with expertise in materials science, chemistry, computational methods or AI.
• Industrial partners (large companies and SMEs) working on chemicals or advanced materials and interested in accelerating innovation.
• Technology providers (digital tools, AI platforms, simulation environments).
• Public research infrastructures and other stakeholders supporting materials R&I.