EPIQR+ News December 2024
1. EPIQR+ news online
The online version of EPIQR+ has been available for a year now. It has been tried and tested on more than a thousand buildings. With the stable version (beta removed), tokens bought, upon activation, will have a 3-months validity period to calculate the cost.
The software interface continues to grow and improve!
Here are the latest updates, responding to many of your requests:
- Possibility of exporting costs by CFC to Excel under the "costs" tab in publications
- Removal of the cost of rendering from perimeter insulation. Rendering layers should now be coded separately in the exterior wall render element when perimeter insulation is selected.
- Addition of new extra work in several elements
- Text corrections, unit costs and quantity surveys
- Coming soon:options to compile and generate a report of the various elements of your diagnosis
If you haven't tried Epiqr Web yet, you can create an account here.
2. EPIQR+ CO2 and CECB+ Workshop
As part of our ongoing software improvements and upgrades, we are pleased to invite you to a dinner workshop to be held on :
Wednesday 15 January 2025
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
at the EPFL Innovation Park
This workshop will be an opportunity to discuss your experience with our tools, in particular EPIQR+ CO2 used to calculate indirect emissions and also to put it in touch with CECB+ for direct CO2 emissions.
Workshop objectives :
- Synergising analyses of direct and indirect emissions.
- Identify all the levers for reducing the carbon footprint beyond current practices such as preserving buildings.
This workshop is open to all users who have completed or are currently working on a project using EPIQR+.
We hope to be able to count on your active participation to enrich this collective reflection.
3. EPIQR+ training courses autumn 2024
The new version of the EPIQR+ tool has been available online for a year now. This tool is designed to facilitate building renovation diagnostics and calculate the associated costs, integrating energy aspects and indirect CO2 emissions.
An introductory course on the method will be held at Lausanne, 11 March 2025. This course will combine aspects of diagnosis with EPIQR+ as well as an energy analysis. The morning introductory session will enable participants to use all the functions of the method independently, while the afternoon course will enable them to interpret a CEBS+ and calculate the overall renovation budget for each scenario.
In addition to the introductory course on EPIQR+On 20 March 2025, two advanced courses will be offered:
- Course on low-carbon renovation with EPIQR+CO2 This course focuses on using the EPIQR+CO2 tool to integrate carbon footprint considerations into renovation projects. It enables participants to better assess and reduce CO2 emissions when planning renovations.
- Course on the Investimmo method This method is dedicated to evaluating property investments from a sustainable and energy perspective. The course helps you to master the techniques for evaluating costs and benefits as part of a property strategy that incorporates the requirements of a climate plan for a portfolio.