Abstract
The EU Green Deal, beginning in 2019, promoted a roadmap for operating the transition to a sustainable EU economy by turning climate issues and environmental challenges into opportunities in all policy areas and making the transition fair and inclusive for all. Focusing on the built environment, the voluntary adoption of rating systems for sustainability assessment is growing, with an increasing market value, and is perceived as a social responsibility both by public administration and by private companies. This paper proposes a framework for shifting from a static sustainability assessment to a digital twin (DT)-based and Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled dynamic approach. This new approach allows for a real-time evaluation and control of a wide range of sustainability criteria with a user-centered point of view. A pilot building, namely, the eLUX lab cognitive building in the University of Brescia, was used to test the framework with some sample applications. The educational building accommodates the daily activities of the engineering students by constantly interacting with the sensorized asset monitoring indoor comfort and air quality conditions as well as the energy behavior of the building in order to optimize the trade-off with renewable energy production. The framework is the cornerstone of a methodology exploiting the digital twin approach to support the decision processes related to sustainability through the whole building’s life cycle.
Highlights
Europe is currently engaging the threat of climate change and environmental degradation as crucial for the preservation of our community
The living laboratory of eLUX encompasses a group of versatile Information and Communications technology (ICT) and energy infrastructures and services, which are located in the engineering faculty area at the University of Brescia, Italy
The buildings of the campus are fed by a private medium voltage (MV) power grid connected to the main network by means of a MV point of delivery (POD)
Summary
Europe is currently engaging the threat of climate change and environmental degradation as crucial for the preservation of our community. The strategy should be inclusive and invest in sustainable growth and transformation, adopting and boosting the vision of a modern, resource-efficient, and competitive economy. Has the tasks to avoid net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, promoting a model of economic growth that is decoupled from resource use with a main focus on inclusivity where no person and no place have to be left behind. The European Green Deal is the action plan to make the EU’s economy sustainable, turning climate and environmental challenges into opportunities, and making inclusive the transition. Rating systems are employed in many states [36,37], adopting a main framework that is customized at national level considering cultural, geographic, and economic background [38,39] and calculation methodologies [40,41]
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