Building Services Systems:Guidelines for energy retrofitting – Towards zero emission schools with high performance indoor environment

This guideline on Building Services Systems is one of four guidelines produced by the School of the Future project. The other three guidelines cover: Building Construction Elements, Improved Indoor Environmental Quality and Concepts for Zero Emission Schools.This guideline consists of the description of 5 main technologies: condensing boilers, heat pumps, ventilation systems, lighting and photovoltaic systems. For each technology chapter there is the same content list: an introduction, a brief technology description, some advantages and disadvantages, market penetration and utilisation, energy and economic performance, some exemplary applications from the School of Future project, a conclusion and a reference list