Preliminary results of the SRI assessment of the first buildings in the Czech Republic
SEVEn is member of consortium of SRI-ENACT project, funded by LIFE programme. Overall objective of the project is to promote, train experts and gain experience of smart readiness indicator. One of subtasks were development of SRI Toolkit was to assess first several buildings in pilot project countries.
The first SRI assessments using project SRI Toolkit was carried by our SEVEn’s internal auditors during spring 2024. The SRI auditors assessed 5 buildings, various types, sizes, construction year and building typology: hospital building, 2 schools, family house and renovated office building.
Hospital České Budějovice, building T13 – total score 22 %, class F
The SRI assessment is the state of the hospital after the planned modernisation and reconstruction. There is central hospital heating system, there is no general AC, no cooling system. The forced ventilation system works for about 80% of building.
Family House in Trhové Sviny – total score 3.4 %, class G
The original state of family house built in 70s provided useful information on SRI assessment of the building without specific “smart” systems. Heating system uses solid fuel boiler and there is electric water heater.
Elementary school in České Budějovice – total score 47.6 %, class E
The elementary school in České Budějovice (Bezdrevská street) gained very high SRI score. The assessment covers the state of the school after the planned modernisation and reconstruction. The new system will have individual room control, ventilation system with control based on CO2 levels and automatic lighting system. The smart monitoring system will control the heating and hot water production, based on the load of the building and predictive system in the central heating system.
Elementary school Tupolevova in Prague – total score 27.1 %, class F
The elementary school in Prague 9 district (aka Tupolevka) gained “average” rating according to SEVEn’s team assessments experiences. The building does not have several modern systems, such as cooling or ventilation and lacks then the high score. The heating system has individual room control system and covers advanced predictions.
Elementary school in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm – total score 16.2 %, class G
The current state of the elementary school in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm got the rating 16.2%. The building has central heating system with natural gas boiler. There is no forced ventilation, AC or dynamic building envelope.
The first experience showed that smart readiness indicator gives added value especially for new or newly upgraded buildings. The assessments and energy audits of building in the Czech Republic were focused generally on energy consumption and renewables. The SRI adds several more domains and views on the building stock in general. The first SRI assessments showed some challenging areas where Czech buildings have low scores: the energy flexibility and energy demand services, indoor air quality reporting, maintenance planning and benchmarking and energy storage. The SRI pilot phase is however ongoing and dozens of buildings will be assessed during upcoming months.