Energy efficient behaviour in office buildings - EBOB

A brief presentation of the project...

Office buildings are responsible for a considerable share of the total European energy consumption whereof the major part of the consumption takes place after the production phase. New energy efficient technology is not sufficient. To reduce the energy use, the end-users behaviour need to be taken into account. EBOB will create new technical and socio-economic solutions to make energy efficient behaviour natural, easy and intuitively understandable for the end-users in refurbished and new offices. This will be achieved by starting from the human perspective and use available and new technology (including IT, smart control, user interfacing). The results gained due to this combining approach we call forgiving technology. 

Eleven partners (see left), five countries, share a budget of 4.6 million euro. The EU finances the project with approximately 2.4 million euro. The project will ran for three years, started on January 1^st, 2002 and ended December 31^st, 2004.

A research project supported by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme and contributing to the implementation of the Key Action Economic and Efficient Energy for a Competitive Europe within the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, Part B: Energy
Contract n°: NNE5/2001/263