CROSS-PED

CROSS-PED brings together partners across four countries to develop a framework for scalable passive cooling strategies in Positive Energy Districts. Three Living Labs focusing on post-modern housing districts in The Hague (the Netherlands), Bari (Italy), and Bucharest (Romania) will provide the conditions to identify urban archetypes, co-create cross-scale passive cooling solutions, and assess their contribution to thermal comfort, energy performance, and carbon reduction. Combining stakeholder knowledge with environmental and energy modeling in a multi-domain assessment of co-benefits and feasibility, the project will develop a catalogue of context-effective passive cooling strategies and a decision-support tool to facilitate their adaptation and replication across different European cities.

CROSS-PED will strengthen the shared understanding of how passive cooling can contribute to energy-positive and climate-resilient districts. It will inform decision-making by providing local authorities and practitioners with evidence to identify suitable passive cooling strategies for their context, and understand their implications for energy performance, flexibility, thermal comfort and carbon emissions. Transferable knowledge and methods will support local capacity building and the implementation of effective solutions beyond the three case studies. Ultimately, CROSS-PED will inform a more integrated approach to Positive Energy Districts across Europe, helping cities avoid maladaptation while driving climate mitigation and adaptation together.