THE HeLLo PROJECT, Heritage energy Living Lab onsite: Ongoing work and Dissemination strategy

Historic buildings constitute a great amount of the EU existing stock. The energy refurbishment of heritage buildings, field of the HeLLo project, is a priority of the EU policies to reduce fuel consumption. However, the lack of specific tools for the intervention on this kind of buildings and the scarcity of data about their energy state-of-the-art, make them mostly excluded from core strategic plans of the Member States, losing a great chance towards a net zero energy future. HeLLo general objective points at spreading awareness about the most common energy retrofit solutions and increase knowledge of their application in historic buildings. HeLLo defined two specific objectives: to check the compatibility of technologies already certified and applied to new buildings on historic constructions and, to create a structured dissemination programme that opens the doors of laboratory life to the outside of the academic boundaries (e.g. the ONSITELab, the SCHOOLab or the SOCIALab). Results are being achieved through a twofold strategy: i) a true experimental laboratory in which such technologies are being tested and their real performance is being quantified; ii) a project of ‘dissemination laboratories’ that offers an ‘experimental experience’ that makes known the world of investigation by the practice of the living lab. In this context, this Poster shows part of the work developed so far within the HeLLo project as well as the ongoing work, ‘translated’ into its many openlabs, i.e. through its strong dissemination strategy.