Current building energy performance place the sector among the most significantCO2 emissionssources in Europe. This paper presents a new approach developed under the ENCOURAGE project to optimizeenergy use in buildings and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment.Within this context,this paper aims at exploring the possiblity of stressing users’ involvement to pursue the final objective ofincreasing energy efficiency and reduce energy costs in public buildings.Acomprehensive surveywas conductedover 265 UPC urban campus users. Results show that most respondents are largely unaware of how muchenergy they consume due to their daily activities and that eco-feedback systems could help to reduce theirenergy consumption. Taking into account that results from the ENCOURAGE project will enable to showindividualized real time data, this research concludes that providing campus users with information on actualenergy consumption could be a feasible way to increase, even more, the energy savings in the urban campusbuildings, supporting the IT-based developments.
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