EnerPHit for a climate-resilient St. Johann
Project management: Regio-Tech Hochfilzen, Pillerseetal Regionalentwicklungs GmbH
Project manager : Rainer Pfluger
Project staff: Sascha Hammes, Andreas Frei
Project partner:
- Regio-Tech Hochfilzen, Pillerseetal Regionalentwicklungs GmbH
- Market town of St. Johann in Tirol
Funding organisation: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG)
Funding programme: Lighthouses for resilient cities 2040 - call for proposals 2022
Programme owner: Climate and Energy Fund
Project duration: 16.01.2023 to 15.07.2024
Total budget of the project: € 55,000 (UIBK-EEB)
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Summary
With the goal of "climate neutrality by 2040", Austria is making an ambitious and urgently needed contribution to the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Smaller cities in particular are currently being criticised for not supporting the necessary measures to the required extent. The market town of St. Johann would like to set an example here and, together with the project partners University of Innsbruck (Energy Efficient Building Unit) and Regio-Tech, create a climate roadmap with feasible and financially viable measures, taking into account the good local PV potential, the existing district heating network of the local heating system with a high proportion of waste heat and biomass as well as the refurbishment potential of public and private buildings.
The innovative character of this application lies in particular in the use of districtPH, a tool newly developed but already validated in the EU Sinfonia project, in which the data input effort is significantly reduced through the use of a cohort model. This makes it possible to carry out a climate roadmap taking into account different variants within the given framework. The recent installation of energy meters in municipal buildings enables comprehensive monitoring to determine the current baseline. Together with the preliminary work in the form of a spatial energy plan, this forms a solid starting point in the decision-making and planning phase, which, using the districtPH variant simulations, should help to derive a concrete and scientifically sound catalogue of measures for the market town of St. Johann. The comprehensive solution approaches will include, in particular, refurbishment measures to the EnerPHit standard, if possible with extensive serial prefabrication, the integration of renewable energies, the expansion of the existing district heating network and the electrification of mobility at municipal level.
These measures should ensure that the market town of St. Johann is on the path to climate neutrality by 2040. Their implementation will provide citizens with planning and supply security and enable an early assessment of alternative strategies, e.g. the installation of heat pumps if development with a district heating network is not possible.
Tasks in the project
The Energy Efficient Building Unit will be largely responsible for developing the roadmap. This work also includes the simulation of variants and the development and definition of fallback scenarios to be used in the event of unforeseeable cancellation of planned measures. Furthermore, a refurbishment concept is to be developed for at least one municipal property, including possible PV integration. In addition to districtPH, as an already validated tool for variant simulation, the experience of UIBK-EEB in the field of refurbishment, building physics and building services engineering is to be used to realise these goals.
Funding
This project is funded by the Climate and Energy Fund and is being carried out as part of the "Lighthouses for resilient cities 2040, call for proposals 2022" programme.
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