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Newsletter #5 - February 2026

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SMARTeeSTORY Newsletter

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Dear Reader,

The past months, SMARTeeSTORY has moved from planning to tangible progress.

Our SRI calculation webtool is launched, online, and ready for assessments.
In Riga, new smart‑building monitoring is helping City Hall take its next steps toward climate neutrality, while in Granada the installation of devices in the Royal Chancellery marks the beginning of a new data‑driven phase. Delft continues to push the conversation forward with user‑centred research and international contributions on comfort, façades, and digitalisation in historic buildings.
Across Europe, our workshops and SRI collaborations are strengthening the community shaping tomorrow’s smarter, more resilient heritage buildings.

 
Your SMARTeeSTORY team

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LAUNCHED: SMARTeeSTORY's Sri webtool for historic buildings

The tool, developed by partners TECNALIA and RINA, assesses how prepared historic buildings are to adopt smart technologies while respecting heritage constraints. The latest version includes target setting based on energy, environmental, or economic priorities and and tailored suggestions for smart solutions with estimates of cost-effectiveness.

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Latest news

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riga launches baseline energy monitoring campaign at city hall

Riga's interventions in the 4th to 8th floors of the Riga City Hall 

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Granada Finalizes Installation: Systems validated and activated

Schneider Electric recently carried out a series of commissioning activities in Granada, completing an important phase of the project together with the local demo site lead, Cuerva.

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TU Delft Delivers Insights on User Interaction with Smart Buildings

Researchers from our TU Delft team sought to find out what users think about automated building control systems. The result? Direct user control dominates, with users particularmy valueing the ability to override controls over heating, lighting, cooling and preferring screen-based dashboards. 

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SMARTeeSTORY at enlit

In a joint session with the smart energy cluster, we highlighted historic buildings as a part of the energy transition. Discussions sparked reinforced the importance of integrating heritage into sustainable energy strategies.

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How TERA's Cloud Monitoring Service helps you understand building energy better

Partner TERA is finalizing the Cloud Monitoring Service, a key component of SMARTeeSTORY's  platform, a building automation and control system for our three historic buildings. It is an important step forward for the next monitoring stage as it visualizes the energy usage of buildings

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Synergies toward sustainable historic buildings: Futurhist

FuturHist is tackling the same challenge SMARTeeSTORY faces: improving energy performance in heritage buildings without compromising their cultural value. While each has its own scope and demonstrators, several common threads stand out.

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How a Digital Model of the city hall Helps Riga Move Toward Climate Neutrality 

Riga Technical University created a detailed digital verison of Riga City Hall, known as a BIM (Building Information Model). Based on real life measurements, the BIM model will serve as a baseline for the future modernization of the entire building and support its transformation towards climate neutrality.

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Sharing smarteestory insights from riga to mentenegro

During a visit to the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Montenegro, Dr Aleksejs Prozument from RTU shared the implementation of smart monitoring and control system at SMARTeeSTORY's demo sites. Such knowledge exchange practices is part of the strengthening of collaboration between EU research institutions and integration with EU sustainability frameworks. 

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Upcoming events

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Webinar series: From Heritage to Energy Transition with FuturHist & Intbau

• Passive Retrofit Strategies for Heritage Buildings
7 March 2026,  11-12:30
• How Active Systems Can Support Heritage Buildings
24 March 2026, 11-12:30

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13th International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities
11-12 March 2026  |  Frankfurt, Germany

Meet SMARTeeSTORY at this conference and learn more about "Multi-domain model predictive control for energy efficiency under different occupant demands in office buildings located in historical buildings"

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EEHB26

 EEHB 2026: The 6th international conference on energy efficiency in historic buildings

13-14 October 2026  |  Strasbourg, France


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CHNT31: Conference on cultural heritage and new technologies

11-13 November 2026  |  Vienna, Austria


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Beyond SMARTeeSTORY

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SRI implementation tools and guidelines

The European Commission's Smart Readiness Indicator Platform provides guidelines for EU countries, SRI assessors, and building owners with examples of digital calculation tools from various initiatives, including SMARTeeSTORY's own tool.

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EU Renovation Plans Move Forward

Eight Member States have submitted draft National Building Renovation Plans (NBRPs) - strengthening the policy push for smart-ready, data-driven building upgrades aligned with SMARTeeSTORY’s mission. This marks the first concrete application of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).

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SMARTeeSTORY is an EU-funded project that accelerates the digital transformation of historical non-residential buildings.

CONTACT INFO
Coordinators:
Matteo Porta, RINA Consulting
Heidi Percuoco, RINA Consulting
 
Press contact:
SMARTeeSTORY@steinbeis-europa.de
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