With a specific emphasis on building assessment and certification, TIMEPAC platform equips individuals with the necessary knowledge and skills to evaluate and certify building energy performance. Through a range of specialised webinars, courses, and resources, the TIMEPAC Academy empowers professionals to play a pivotal role in advancing energy efficiency and sustainability within the built environment.

The upcoming recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) introduces the national building renovation plan to support the decarbonisation of the European building stock by 2050. This requires data and models to rank the overall energy and environmental performance of the building stock. Archetypes that are representative of building clusters play a crucial role in the development of a national building renovation plan because they encapsulate the heterogeneity of the building stock characteristics. By exploiting bottom up energy models, the archetype-based approach enhances accuracy in urban energy modelling and, at the same time, reduces model complexity. 

The content of Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) databases, properly processed to remove erroneous data, represents a core source of information to create the archetypes, analyse the performance status of the building stock, and assess the effectiveness of renovation strategies.

This webinar explores the potential to use EPC databases to develop an archetype-based urban building energy model, as devised in the TIMEPAC project. It also offers comprehensive training in the statistical analysis of the EPC database, to leverage it for benchmarking initiatives. Examples of energy renovation scenarios both at the individual building scale (e.g., by exploiting the information provided in the Building Renovation Passport), and at broader building stock levels will be provided. The training materials cover the workflow of statistical analysis on EPC databases, quality control activities for EPC data, and the development of building stock models.