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BECA Beca, empirica, balanced, european, conservation, approach, balanced european conservation approach Welcome to the mainpaige of BECA - balanced european conservation approach.

Welcome to the BECA Balanced European Conservation Approach – ICT services for resource saving in social housing website!

The BECA project started in January 2011 and aims to help Europe meet emission targets by achieving a significant reduction of energy consumption in European social housing. Building on existing services providing feedback on energy consumption to social housing tenants, BECA will develop, provide and pilot advanced ICT-based Resource Use Awareness Services (RUAS) and Resource Management Services (RMS).

Supported financially by the European Commission under the ICT Policy Support Programme, 18 organisations are cooperating in the project to provide these services directly to social housing tenants.

Pilots of BECA services are located at 7 sites in 7 countries:

Örebro in Sweden,
Manresa in Spain,
Darmstadt in Germany,
Torino in Italy,
Havirov in the Czech Republic,
Ruse in Bulgaria, and
Belgrade in Serbia.

What is new ?

Workshop: "ICT and Social Housing: Towards smart SHOs?"

23 March 2012

The French members of eSESH, BECA and E3SoHo projects organize a workshop on 2nd and 3rd of February 2012 in Angers, France.

This workshop aims to present the results of the first ICT experiments in Social Housing sector in order to help responsibles in their questioning on the development of tenant services and the implementation of energy strategy.

With the arrival of smart meters, new issues emerge on the positioning of social housing organizations and the services offered to tenants.

How to use ICT capacities and potential regulatory developments to create new ways of interacting with tenants?
What kind of implementation should we prefer?
How could we fund the development of infrastructure?
What kind of communication do we have to implement to facilitate the use of ICT by tenants?

If the digital infrastructures now allow to collect and analyze individual energy consumption data, they offer other possibilities: to optimize management (integration of renewable energy production systems, control of in line losses ...), to create social interactions, to facilitate home support ... Also, their impact is not only limited to improve services to tenants but provides a real added value to the business of the SHO.

For further information please visit the workshops' website.

BECA Newsletter

9 March 2011

The third BECA Newsletter is now available for download here (PDF, 2 MB)

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