SEMANCO Implementation effectiveness

Deliverable 8.1 Implementation Plan provided a detailed three phase implementation plan for the demonstrations undertaken as part of the SEMANCO project. These demonstrations are now completed in each of the three case study areas in Newcastle, Copenhagen and Manresa. The findings from phase one and two of the demonstrations are presented in Deliverable 8.2 Implementation Success Indicators and Deliverable 8.3 Intermediate implementation report. This report describes the third and final stage of the implementation plan for the demonstrations undertaken as part of Task 8.4 Analysis and conclusions of the implementation. This work involves the demonstration of the functionality added to the SEMANCO integrated platform undertaken as part of Task 5.6 Integrated platform and described in Deliverable 5.6 Operative integrated platform. The iterative approach applied to the implementation and demonstration of the SEMANCO integrated platform has enabled user feedback to inform the technical development undertaken during the project undertaken as part of work package 5.
The third and final phase of the demonstrations involved 12 participants using the platform to conduct a sequence of activities defined as meeting objectives relevant to energy efficient urban design in each of the case study areas. This sequence of tasks is similar to those followed in the first two phases of the demonstrations: creating an urban energy model, defining a baseline, analysing a baseline, creating new plans and projects, and evaluating and comparing projects. In addition, as part of Task 8.4, usability tests have been conducted by participants from each case study area. These tests were designed in Task 5.6 Integrated platform and described in Deliverable 5.6 Operative integrated platform.

The work presented in this report:
- Illustrates how user feedback from the previous phases of the demonstration have informed the technical development of the SEMANCO platform;
- Identifies when user feedback from the previous phases of demonstrations has been overlooked in the functionality of the latest version of the SEMANCO platform and why this is the case.
- Presents the findings from the usability tests conducted to assess the latest version of the SEMANCO platform in terms of navigation, predictability and intelligibility of the interfaces.
- Provides user feedback to inform a further refinement of the SEMANCO platform being