Environmental Benefits of Elementary School's Renovation

This paper shows partial results of IEA ECBCS Annex 56 which deals with energy-, economically- and environmentally-efficient renovations of buildings. It describes one of the assessed case studies - renovation of elementary school Kaminky 5 in Brno-Novy Liskovec, Czech Republic into low-energy standard. The school was built in 1987 and renovated in 2009 and 2010. The renovation significantly reduced energy consumption of the school. The energy consumption (heat, electricity) as well as environmental performance (represented by CO2 emissions, non-renewable and cumulative energy demand) of the school, both before and after the renovation, is described in detail in the paper. Data about the energy consumption are based on audits and financial reports that has been provided by the Borough Office Brno - Novy Liskovec. Data for the environmental assessment are taken from renovation's designs (provided by design office Menhir project s. r. o.) and in-situ inspection.