Novel building Integration Designs for increased Efficiencies in Advanced climatically tunable renewable energy Systems
Innovative Technologies Improving Building Sustainability
Integrating and optimising Heat Pump technology with the PV/PCM
Novel Integration and Demand-side Management
Building for the future.
Buildings play a significant role in the global energy balance. Typically, they account for 20-30% of the total primary energy requirement of industrialized countries, 40% in EU.
Global buildings sector energy intensity fell by 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2014, thanks to continued adoption and enforcement of building energy codes and efficiency standards.
Yet progress has not been fast enough to offset growth in floor area (3% per year globally) and increasing energy demand.
Applying integrated Renewable Energy Systems to buildings is an important application for wider integration and deployment of renewable energy and to achieving our binding EU targets of at least a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 2030.
Latest news about IDEAS
Journal Article by Colleagues at UNIFE
Our colleagues at UNIFE have published an article in the Tecnica Italiana - Italian Journal of Engineering Science on the installation of the small scale prototype. The paper presents the state-of-the-art of the ongoing IDEAS research project, funded under the Horizon 2020 EU framework programme. The project involves fourteen partners from six...
Time Lapse of Prototype IDEAS installation Ferrara
This footage taken during the Summer 2020 by the team led by Prof Bottarelli (UNIFE) & Prof Vincenzi (CFR) records the onsite installation of the IDEAS system in the TeknHub lab of the University of Ferrara (Italy).. It shows the installation of the following components: ground source heat exchangers installed into trenches backfilled with...
IDEAS Covered in The Project Repository Journal
Download a PDF of the article here See the entire Journal Repository Magazine Here IDEAS covered extensively in four page article in Project Repository We are delighted with the extensive coverage the project receives in the EU Project Repository Journal. The article outlines the project, describes exciting progress, even during these pressing...
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