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Spring 2019 European Energy Innovation 41

HVAC TECHNOLOGIES

JOIN THE REHVA FLAGSHIP EVENT: CLIMA 2019

CLIMA is the biggest international congress and exhibition held in
Europe around the topics of HVAC, energy efficiency, smart buildings
and cities, Net Zero Energy and Passive Buildings, renewables energy
technologies. It is organized every three years by one of the REHVA
Member Associations. The 2019 edition is co-organized by AIIR,
the Romanian association, UTCB, the Technical University of Civil
Engineering of Bucharest, and REHVA.

This technical and international event was attended by over 1000 professionals from all over the world in the last
years and the 2019 event has even higher participation targets.

Under the heading ”BUILT ENVIRONMENT FACING CLIMATE CHANGE”, the proposed main topics for the 13th CLIMA
Congress will put into discussion the capacity of the new or existing refurbished buildings together with their technical
systems, especially HVAC&S&R, to counteract in an energy efficient manner the climate changes in order to keep
inside an optimum comfort, simultaneously with the security of occupants:

• Advanced HVAC&R&S Technology and Indoor Environment Quality

• High Energy Performance and Sustainable Buildings

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the Intelligent Building Management

• Sustainable Urbanization and Energy System Integration

must take a leading position in show a transition from selling HVAC
this issue. In case it is defined and equipment or energy towards selling
implemented in a suitable way, the a comfort-related service. This is a
SRI could really help in facilitating fully new model where those services
people to understand the energy and can be directly sold to the end-user
IEQ dynamics inside a building. or building owner, which will have a
big impact on the HVAC industry and
Understanding building occupants’ our society.
behavioural patterns, preferences
and triggers towards higher energy Data analysis is useful also to
consciousness can have a significant open opportunities for interaction
impact on the dynamics of building among buildings as parts of energy
energy performance. If we want to communities. Day by day, we
increase our capability of interpreting move our boundaries of energy
users and the “users & building” investigations from single buildings
complex system, we need data to districts of connected buildings,
collection and data analysis. where different energy vectors can
be selected to feed different energy
The digitalization of buildings, and equipment and to cover different
specifically of the HVAC sector, energy needs by users. The transition
is a fundamental step to achieve to an all-electric, digitalized,
this. Sensors in buildings measures connected and interactive smart
quantities, collect and elaborate data, buildings community is coming, as it
to analyse and investigate indicators, is happening in the mobility sector.
to provide the facility manager with
information or to give feedbacks The key take-away for the HVAC
to occupants. Data science has sector from the new European
penetrated the building energy sector. panorama is to be smart and
innovative to grab all the chances
The cross-fertilization between IT that the ever-evolving technologies
and construction sectors is a unique offer to our HVAC sector: the
opportunity to create new products opportunity is there, we must be
and services. Current market trends there too. l

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