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In 2015 the main activities in WP4 have the time frame of the centre. ZEB Centre and within other projects using
been: The main research activities in 2015 in ZEB Living Laboratory and ZEB Test Cell

• Pilot buildings: Evaluation of the building WP5 have been: Laboratory
process, initial use phase, and daily • ZEB deinition The construction of the following
operation and use laboratories has been completed:
• ZEB living Lab • Implementation of ZEBs in norms and • ZEB Living Laboratory
regulations
• Green leases and other measures to • Evaluation of pilot buildings • ZEB Test Cell Laboratory
deal with the “principal actor problem” in
the built environment (in collaboration with • Follow-up design and construction The buildings are being used for studies of
NTNU’s Centre for Real Estate Facilities • Generalization of results user-technology interaction and research
Management) on interconnected zero emission building
• “ZEBonomics”. Conclusion: Market Activities and results connected to several technologies. The laboratory facilities are an
ZEB pilot buildings are elaborated upon in
potential and market creation “ the results chapter. arena for risk reduction in implementation of
The residential experiment in the ZEB zero emission building technologies.
Living Laboratory is described in the results The ZEB laboratories are further described
chapter. Laboratories and Infrastructure: in the results chapter.
Goal: Development and operation of
WP5: Concepts and Strategies for building laboratories for investigation, testing
Zero Emission Buildings and demonstration of new and innovative
building technologies.
Goal: Development of concrete concepts
for zero emission buildings which can be Experiments have been and are being
translated into realized pilot buildings within carried out in these facilities, both within the

The RAWI box in Sintef Laboratorium in Trondheim. Photo: Remy Eik/SINTEF

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