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.

Watch a brief video on the IDEAS suite of technologies that could help change the future of building efficiency and sustainability

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May 2020 Newsletter

May 2020 Newsletter

Download PDF version of our newsletter here IDEAS progress outlined in Ulster University Belfast Workshop Welcome to the IDEAS Horizon 2020 research projects Newsletter, providing an update on the progress of our work, our findings, and results to inform interested citizens, building energy sector experts, and public housing policy makers....

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