During the course Energy Supply Systems for Buildings you have learned how to estimate the primary resources needed to meet a certain demand for heat, cold and electricity in a building. You have practiced a lot with the energy chain and know now that electricity and hydrogen are not primary resources.

You also have learned and practiced your skills about converting primary energy into kilograms and cubic meters of resources and into CO2 emissions. You can handle the concepts of country electricity mix and emission factors, which are widely used in many national and international policies and building regulations, and are essential to counteract climate change.

And last but not least, you are aware of all important technologies used to produce heat, cold and electricity. You know their working principle and can make basic calculations of size, costs, use of natural resources and CO2 emissions for all these technologies. You have a good understanding of which ones of these are sustainable and should be developed further in the future.

Of course each lecture in this course and almost each slide in each lecture would have been worth a complete course. I hope it has given you inspiration to continue learning about buildings as sustainable energy systems and will help you in your future job as an engineer, policy maker, or architect to shape a sustainable future.

Thank you for participating in the course.

The course team