30 success stories by cities, projects and businesses on energy, mobility and ICT will be showcased on 3 October - the second day of the conference Empowering smart solutions for better cities organised by the European Commission and the Smart Cities Information System.
The parallel sessions titled will highlight good practice and achievements, demonstrate the tools and innovative solutions used and the challenges overcome to reach success. They illustrate the blend of technology, finance, society, communication and governance. In an interactive fashion, each presentation will take place twice in front of two small groups with different participants to allow for detailed and engaged discussions. Each presentation will last 15 minutes plus 25 minutes for group discussion and Q&A.
See the first 15 parallel sessions here.
The 15 parallel sessions in #2 Urban innovation in practice: success stories are:
CITyFiED demonstration case study: energy results achieved in Torrelago
Alfonso Gordaliza | VEOLIA
The Torellago district in Laguna de Duero, Spain, is one of the demonstration cases of the CITyFiED project. The activities focused on the development and implementation of an IPMVP-based methodology for the energy assessment of Torrelago, including building retrofitting and district heating renovation. The presentation will talk about measurement and verification protocol, baseline period, mathematical modelling of the DH system, energy performance analysis, energy savings achieved so far and future challenges.
Collection, integration, harmonisation and management of buildings’ energy-related data in real life
Luca Giovannini | Dedagroup
The session will demonstrate harmonized data models and interoperable web services for mapping energy performance and consumption of buildings. It will focus on the experience of GeoSmartCity, ACCENT and CitiEnGov projects with energy-related information at the level of buildings and local spatial data to facilitate the monitoring of actions defined by local energy plans.
Efficient and sustainable energy supply to cities: the PITAGORAS case study
Patricio Aguirre |TECNALIA
A full-scale pilot plant has been built and commissioned in the steel mill of ORI MARTIN in the city of Brescia, Italy, as part of the PITAGORAS project. The pilot plant is the first one in Europe for waste heat supply to an urban district, providing a powerful best practice example and a lighthouse project for other cities with similar opportunities. Techno-economic information and performance results of the plant will be shown.
Feedback from the construction and operation of a large positive energy building in the city centre of Lyon, France
Bruno Gaiddon | Hespul
The NEXT-BUILDINGS project in Lyon focused on the concept of energy positive buildings. The presentation will talk about the design, development approach and energy performance of the HIKARI building.
How the City-zen Roadshow helped Dubrovnik, Izmir, Belfast and Menorca to co-create a realisable vision for a sustainable city
Craig Lee Martin | TU Delft
The Roadshow initiative, implemented within the City-zen project, is a co-creative urban design approach showing European cities the way towards sustainable city agendas. The methodology places citizens at the heart of the creative process to develop designs, strategies, guidelines and timelines at all city scales and ensures that all city stakeholders believe in the process, objectives and solutions, no matter how radical or unfamiliar.
How to work closely together in building renovation at large scale: the MURMUR renovation campaign in Grenoble-Alpes Métropole
Jérôme Buffière | ALEC
Building contractors, condominium managers, banks and local authorities all work together to help owners to renovate their apartment buildings and homes. How building partnership with key actors such as architects, craftsmen, engineers and maintenance and operating companies resulted in innovative and effective solutions in the MURMUR renovation campaign in Grenoble-Alpes Métropole.
Learning in the lighthouses: capturing smart urban transformation in the TRIANGULUM project
James Evans | University of Manchester
This presentation focuses on the lessons and broader impacts experienced in the lighthouse cities in the Horizon 2020 Triangulum project. It will discuss the expectations and realities, lessons gained through experience of implementation, benefits to different partners, tbroader impacts of the project including organisational learning and transformation.
Renewable energy in district heating & cooling: best practices and challenges from the cities of Litomerice (Czech Republic) and Brasov (Romania)
Lukas Kranzl | Technical University of Vienna
The progRESsHEAT project shares solutions on how to overcome the challenges of existing, old district heating and cooling infrastructure and how to transform it into a renewable, sustainable, future-proof heat supply system. The session will present transition pathways focusing on the technological, economic and governance aspects.
REPLICATE: Measuring impact for determining a city's business model
Eduardo Miera | TECNALIA
Apart from direct impact there are indirect and induced impacts that are not taken into account for delivering the best possible planning within a city. The presentation will focus on how to measure these impacts and prioritise interventions as showcased in the REPLICATE project.
RUGGEDISED: interoperable 3D Urban Platforms
Rick Klooster | Future Insight
How to make all kind of information – open, sensor, 3D - available and use it improve the efficiency of working processes and the communication in a durable way. The session will share the experience of RUGGEDISED project in Rotterdam in open standards, collaboration and change management.
Sharing Cities: sharing practices and scaling up smart city solutions
Bernadett Koteles-Degrendele | EUROCITIES
Replication and scale-up requires deeper exchange on methods, facts and approaches taken by the city leads. Showcasing the example of Lisbon-Bordeaux – lighthouse and fellow city in from the Sharing Cities project, the presentation will talk about the importance of peer-to-peer exchange among cities to deliver real results. It will highlight key lessons learned and success factors for successful replication.
SINFONIA: Bridging the gap between design and implementation of smart city concepts
Daniele Vettorato | EURAC
The planning of a refurbishment should take into account account the participation of key actors such as designers, researchers, certification organisation and tenants. The session will present SINFONIA’s experience and exemplify how to approach discrepances in the calculated and monitored energy performance of buildings, live-in tenants and construction site management, collaboration with an interdisciplinary design team for MMF solutions.
Smart London: Digital transformation of local economy and empowering local communities
Jorge Saraiva | DigitalTown
Cities are struggling against the impact of 'extracting economy' players. Smart.London is a beneficial alternative for the city that empowers its citizens and businesses. The presentation will talk about Smart Destination - how to set up a city platform to attract tourists, investors, businesses and talent; and Smart Economy - digital transformation of local business in a city wide platform.
TRIANGULUM replication tool for smart city use cases
Nikita Shetty| Fraunhofer IAO
A tool, developed within the Triangulum project, which aims at fostering replication by effectively capturing the knowledge gained from the implementation of smart city solutions and enabling cities to find those suited to their needs. The session will demonstrate how the tool works and will look at benefits for other EU Projects to follow the approach of documentation.
REMOURBAN: Ultra-low-energy homes for 2050
Emily Braham | Nottingham City Homes
With the aim of achieving low to zero carbon emissions, we are looking at ways to develop energy systems for homes, including innovative procurement, ESCO models, low temperature heating and electricity generation and storage. The presentation will look at the experience and challenges of the REMOURBAN project in Nottingham, which uses two different models to deliver 104 homes with integrated energy-efficient solutions