The Mediterranean library of knowledge
Explore the ENI CBC Med Programme's library of deliverables: a comprehensive digital repository of diverse resources tailored for the Mediterranean region. Discover in-depth studies, innovative strategies, and practical tools spanning tools addressing key environmental, economic, and social issues. The library is your go-to source to find valuable knowledge to inspire new collaborative projects driving fair, sustainable and inclusive development across the Mediterranean.
MAIA TAQA Detailed design of the pilot project - Amman
The MAIA-TAQA project focuses on developing and defining a range of innovative services in the field of resource efficiency (RE), by setting up demonstrators in 3 Mediterranean pilot areas, in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan. This report illustrates a pilot project implemented in Jordan with the aim of improving and upgrading the provision of power at the Jordan Chamber of Commerce (JOCC) main building in Amman by installing a Building Integrated Photovoltaic System (BIPV).
Energy audits performed in Mediterranean University Buildings
A structured methodology to carry out the energy audits, in the identified pilot sites, was adopted in order to define the resource planning, establish an energy audit team (including technicians, engineers, and students), organize instruments and timeframe, collect and analyze utility data.
Energy audit reports were elaborated including the data collected and recommendations for potential solutions and opportunities for improving energy efficiency and renewable energy applications.
An online training course transferring knowledge on how to perform an efficient energy audit in university buildings was organized targeting over 50 students across the Mediterranean. The students analyzed case studies and proposed renovation solutions to meet nearly zero energy buildings requirements, of the university buildings analyzed.
Energy Renovation Reports of Mediterranean University Buildings
The project team succeeded in implementing an innovative and eco-sustainable energy renovation process for selected university buildings in Tunisia, Italy and Palestine enabling to reduce the energy demand, decrease operational costs of the universities and ensure a sustainable, reliable, safe, and cost-effective electrical energy supply. The proposed renovation measures were based on recommendations drawn from energy audits and through surveys (for emerging solutions), workshops and courses, while exploiting a set of tools developed as a decision support to efficiently design, plan and evaluate the renovation process.
Based on the obtained monitoring data as well as numerical simulations, the total reduction of CO2 emissions is 509,93 t CO2/y, and the total savings are 148 k€/y
The implementation of the actions took more time than foreseen due to the lengthy administrative procedures and the permissions processes to intervene on buildings , especially in case of historical buildings.
Guidelines were developed highlighting the renovation process implemented and listing the best practices and recommendations drawn.
NAWAMED Final publication
A comprehensive document encapsulating the insights and innovations gained over the four-year duration. It focuses in particular on the description of the new measures to promote non-conventional water (NCW) uses and the innovative and available nature-based solutions (NbS) for greywater treatment and reuse, and provides a general overview of the lessons learned and possible new collaborations for the future. This publication provides a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders interested in sustainable water solutions.
GreenBuilding shares its guidelines for EU nearly Zero Energy Buildings
The goal of this manual is presented along with the definition of nearly zero energy for public building in the EU MED regions illustrating the benefits in energy consumption. These benefits include: reducing environmental impact (e.g. greenhouse gas and carbon emissions) and increasing resiliency; lower operational costs in particular the energy costs; promoting healthier and more comfortable spaces for occupants and efficiency; implementing this manual will be carried when intending to refurbish public offices; and buildings to achieve nearly zero energy consumption annually.
GreenBuilding shares its guidelines for nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Mediterranean Partner Countries
The goal of this manual is presented along with the definition of nearly zero energy for public building in the MED regions illustrating the benefits in energy consumption. These benefits include: reducing environmental impact (e.g. greenhouse gas and carbon emissions) and increasing resiliency; lower operational costs in particular the energy costs; promoting healthier and more comfortable spaces for occupants and efficiency; implementing this manual will be carried when intending to refurbish public offices; and buildings to achieve nearly zero energy consumption annually.
GreenBuilding shares its guidelines for the new/revised procedures for the energy building refurbishment of Mediterranean public buildings
The aim of his report was to identify and evaluate new and revised procedures for the building energy refurbishment, and the GreenBuilding assessed the best practices in order to compare them and produce the report to guaranteeing the gained knowledge transfer. This report covers the best practices in the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC), like the energy simulation and energy efficiency tools in addition to cost-effective technological procedures that helps minimizing the energy consumption of a building.
GreenBuilding shares its guidelines for the new/revised procedures for the energy building refurbishment of EU public buildings
The aim of his report was to identify and evaluate new and revised procedures for the building energy refurbishment, and the GreenBuilding assessed the best practices in order to compare them and produce the report to guaranteeing the gained knowledge transfer. This report covers the best practices in the European Union Mediterranean Countries (EUMC), like the energy simulation and energy efficiency tools in addition to cost-effective technological procedures that helps minimizing the energy consumption of a building.
D4.4.1 S MED CITIES - Set up of Local Project Committee
The purpose of this document is to incorporate the decision-making methodology into a participatory process through the setting up of Local Project Committees.
LPCs are the primary strategy for actively engaging target groups in the sustainable Med Cities project ‘Integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities’.
In addition, based on what stated in the Application Form of the project, a Local Project Committee (LPC) will be established in each participating municipality.
Local members, representing the different stakeholders interested in the Sustainable MED Cities outcomes, will compose the LPC and they will actively participate in these informal but collective working group.
D4.2.1_Participatory Guarantee System
Starting from the experience gained in CESBA MED project concerning the development of a participatory approach through the implementation of Co-Creation labs, Sustainable MED Cities will capitalise, reply and adapt this approach to the partner cities involved in the testing activity of the project.
The key ending result of this deliverable is a guideline for PPs involved in the testing activity, for setting up and properly manage the key participative moments during the Decision-Making process (see D4.1.1).
This deliverable has been produced in conjunction with “D4.1.1 - Adaptation of CESBA MED generic Decision-Making methodology to South and East side of MED” and with “D5.2.1 - Test Protocol”. For that reason, D4.2.1 must be utilized together with the other companion deliverables mentioned before.
Furthermore, a specific chapter is devoted to the description of the Co-Creation Labs, the places where the participation process physically takes place.
D3.1.4_MED_Passport and KPIs
The majority of the world’s population (55%) has been concentrated in large urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050 (UN, 2018). At the same time, although cities account for less than 2% of the Earth's surface, they consume 78 % of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and 70% of global waste, (UN Habitat), being both a challenge for global sustainability and a tool for its solution.
In the Mediterranean region, two thirds of the population live in urban areas, while by 2050, it is predicted that the urban population will grow to around 170 million in the countries on the northern shore and to over 300 million to the south and east. Currently, northern Mediterranean countries use more energy and have higher CO2 emissions than south-eastern countries, a trend that is expected to be reversed by 2040 by improving energy efficiency, exploiting renewables etc. Most global climate models project that the Mediterranean basin will be particularly sensitive to rising GHG concentrations and thus, vulnerable to climate change, which means that cities in the south and north Mediterranean will need to adapt existing infrastructure and build new ones.
The Sustainable MED Cities project, aims to provide an easy to use, harmonized methodology and open source tools to support Mediterranean municipalities in the assessment, planning and overall decision-making process for selecting the best sustainable renovation strategies that increase the quality of the built environment. The holistic assessment focuses on energy and GHGs emissions, and other environmental vectors like economic and social indicators. The tools are used to set common targets and to measure the overall progress in terms of key sustainability issues and decarburization efforts at different scales (i.e. building, neighbourhood and city). The common method and tools will be available in different languages, with their assessment and rating approach contextualized to national (local) needs and priorities.
The approach taken in this work utilizes the CESBA MED system (CESBA MED Project – SBTool assessment system) that was developed as a generic framework, which includes an “exhaustive” list of sustainability indicators that cover all relevant themes, given that there is still no consensus on a specific number or types of indicators. In addition, some new indicators are included in order to address the priorities of the new partner cities in the MENA region. The resulting comprehensive database includes different performance indicators from which to select the ones that meet local priorities and needs, or best fit the project intent.
D3.1.3_Indicators_for Smart Buildings-Cities
A large number of indicators are necessary in order to support cities for applying city management systems and to implement smart city policies, programmes and projects (ISO 37122). Among others, these efforts aim to: o respond to challenges such as climate change, by fundamentally improving how they engage society; o serve people and improve quality of life for residents, businesses, and visitors using data and new technologies; o achieve sustainability goals; o facilitate innovation and growth; o build a dynamic and innovative economy. An integral element of smart cities that has evolved and advanced to early implementation stages is the smart readiness indicator (SRI) of buildings. This is a common EU rating scheme that depends on a building's capacity to accommodate smart-ready services for creating healthy, energy-efficient and comfortable indoor environment.1 The approach addresses all main building services, including air-conditioning, domestic hot water, lighting, electricity, electric vehicle charging, building envelope functions, monitoring and control. The impacts are accessed in terms of energy efficiency and flexibility, indoor comfort, convenience, health and well-being, among others. This report outlines the characteristics of related methods in order to quantify the building smart readiness indicator and smart cities. The presentation does not provide detailed information but rather outlines the SRI method and provides the necessary links to the available tools for quantifying the smartness of buildings. For smart cities, several of the relevant indicators that are reviewed herein are already part of the CESBA MED sustainability assessment method (https://cesba-med.interregmed.eu). Relevant information that is suitable for integration in the overall concept are presented in this report. Considering that a smart city has several facets, the evaluation of a smart city is based on qualitative criteria using an expert’s assessment based on the prescribed reference descriptions in order to assess and score the specific performance (Balaras et al. 2019).