37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

October 28, 9 h 30–10 h 00 (Room 0)Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Técnicos IndustrialesPresentation: D. Aquilino de la Guerra. Decano del COITI de Cantabria.CONFIRMADOD. JOSÉ MIGUEL SOLANSBorn in 1965.Electrical Engineering by UPC University (Barcelona) – 1990.MBA Management by ESADE(Spain) – 1996He began his career in the '90s at Schneider Electric España S.A. wherehe has been Product Manager in MV equipment, International ProjectManager developing several MV solutions for global market, MarketingManager in energy segment.He became Innovation Director in 2008 and Innovation&BusinessDevelopment Director in 2009 till now.He is involved in working groups related with innovation (vice president in innovation commission of22@network) and smart houses (vice president in the smart house commission in ASIMELEC).ABSTRACT: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE ENERGY IN BUILDINGFrom the energy point of view, in the past, buildings have been built taking into account only somepassive aspects of energy efficiency (insulation, orientation): At this stage the buildings were mereconsumers of energy.In the twentieth century we become to be aware of the energy dilemma :• Energy demand grows along with population and economies.• Energy consumption must be reduced to avoid environmental disaster.The building market contributes highly to the energy challenge and CO2 emissions:• the new building market can take advantage of new technologies for the complete buildingdesigns …• … but without major actions on existing buildings, objectives will not be met.Passive and specially active energy efficiency (EE) are the solution in the short term:• Passive energy efficiency acts on the building structure and equipment that produces orconsumes energy.• Active energy efficiency acts on the way the building and equipment are used. Monitoring andmaintenance are key factors.We can analyze three main drivers of EE in buldings : regulation , finantial driver (CAPEX, OPEX,ROI) and green driver (image, social responsibility).Building energy performance will introduce changes in the way building players work (coordination,new indicators) and creates new players (energy consultants) and services (ESCO, performancecontracting).The trends for the future are:• System integration : from multiple silo systems ( Communication, Energy, HVAC, security,lighting control,…etc) to an integrated solution.• Some Buildings are producing energy and the challenge for the future is to integrate buildingsin the smart grids as a “prosumer” (producer + consumer) in order to manage the flow ofenergy, so an smart energy control in bulldings is going to be a key factor.37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 27