The project aims at extending the concept of Energy Performance Contracting to Active Buildings and making it available and attractive to a wider range of buildings. AmBIENCe will provide new concepts and business models for performance guarantees of Active Buildings, combining savings from energy efficiency measures with additional savings and earnings resulting from the active control of assets leveraging for instance price based incentive contracts (Implicit Demand Response). The willingness to invest in additional sensorisation, ICT an IoT will be increased by offering adjacent other-than- energy services, e.g. related to comfort, security or maintenance.

Throughout the course of AmBIENCe, we will use the experience of the project’s business and research partners in regional workshops. The workshops will bring together various stakeholders to assess best practices and key take-aways. Based on workshop results, an integrated modular concept will be proposed, then a proof-of-concept platform will be developed to support the creation of active building performance contracts. Read more here.