Insurance-backed warranty for whole life housing energy performance (I-LIFE)

I-LIFE项目正在寻求为建筑业开发一种新的保险产品。该产品将为整个生命周期的能源性能提供保险支持。我们的工作重点是社会或私营部门的新建住房。该项目的主要挑战是开发能源预测算法，准确预测使用中的性能，并可转化为保险产品。深入了解能源性能差距将是成功的关键。项目团队由Encraft领导，Encraft是一家拥有建筑物理专业知识的中小企业，主要项目合作伙伴包括：BLP，一家拥有全寿命成本分析专业知识的保险公司;牛津布鲁克斯大学谁专门从事建筑性能评估和社会技术方法，以提高能源性能;和威尔莫特狄克逊，一个批量房屋建筑商提供了一个潜在的途径，以市场。该项目将从2015年9月开始运行30个月，并将包括12个月的试点测试阶段。调查结果将通过行业网络、活动和发表的论文广泛传播。

The I-LIFE project is seeking to develop a new insurance product for the construction industry. The product will give insurance backing to a warranty for whole life energy performance. The focus of our work is on new build housing in the social or private sector. The primary challenge for the project is to develop energy prediction algorithms which accurately predict performance in use and can be translated into an insurance product.Developing a deep understanding of the energy performance gap will be critical to success.The project team is led by Encraft, an SME with expertise in building physics and the main project partners include; BLP, an insurance provider with expertise in whole life costing analysis; Oxford Brookes University who specialise in building performance evaluation and socio-technical approaches to enhancing energy performance; and Willmott Dixon, a volume housebuilder providing a potential route to market. The project will run for 30 months from September 2015 and will include a 12 month pilot testing phase. Findings will be widely disseminated through industry networks, events and published papers.Finance Summary Table – How to complete this section