Cross-ETP Research and Innovation Roadmap for the Energy Efficiency in Building

Building Up Research and Innovation Roadmap is intended to provide a thorough overview on targets up to 2020 and beyond related to nanotechnologies, materials and processes, necessary to be achieved in order to improve the energy efficiency in the built environment.
The document has been produced as part of the Coordination and Support Activities being carried out in the European project Building Up (“Multi-stakeholder, cross-sectorial, col-laborative long term Research & Innovation Roadmap to overcome technological and non-technological barriers towards more energy-efficient buildings & districts”), that was co-financed under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, more specifically within the nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies (NMP) thematic priority.
One of the aims of the project was the development of this roadmap, through a fruitful collaboration among European Technology Platforms (ETPs) from different sectors and industrial and research stakeholders from various Member States all gathered around a common topic: energy efficiency in the built environment.

The background for developing the roadmap was a broad review of foresight studies and other relevant sources (EU-funded work and reports, research agendas from ETPs, and other national and multinational initiatives), which take into consideration climate change, resource scarcity and demographic change as well as global changes that will affect the building sector.
Discussion, revision and validation of the roadmap were performed through several working group meetings, surveys and participation to conferences and public events.