This knowledge platform is a major activity to secure the information, experiences and data from building energy competitions such as the Solar Decathlon and living labs worldwide. It adds to the Solar Decathlon US information system (http://solardecathlon.gov) and the individual websites of the events or living labs.

The work on the platform is part of Annex 74 (http://annex74.iea-ebc.org) of the Energy in Buildings & Communities Programme of the International Energy Agency. The platform is based on a content management system and the use of standardized fact sheets to structure, filter and transfer information. All buildings of the competitions and living labs are detailed, documented and linked to an interactive map with the connected universities. The knowledge platform also serves as the central storage space for all competition documents, such as project manuals, drawings, publications, communications initiatives, pictures, reports, evaluations, scorings as well as detailed monitoring data. 

The public visibility of material is limited to respect copyrights. Please contact us via email for more details on login conditions:  annex74@uni-wuppertal.de

This work is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy and assisted by intensive information exchange with the organizers from the past events.

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