Renewable Energy Sources for smart sustainable health Centers, University Education and other public buildings

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodology for realising smart and sustainable buildings presented on an example of several public buildings in Croatia and Serbia. This is realised with a comprehensive study on energy demand and available renewable energy sources (RES) that could be used for energy generation in the near vicinity of the public building. Additionally, using smart building energy management system it is shown that the public building could be led one step closer to nearly zero-energy building (nZEB). In the introduction the paper presents a short overview of the most important directives and national legislatives supporting energy efficiency and renewable sources. The RES based facilities used for practical demonstration of main benefits are basically the exemplary facilities developed within the scope of RESCUE IPA CBC project.