Project description
New solutions for 'Plus Energy Houses'
Combining climate and cultural differences when building energy-efficient and cost-affordable houses could encourage new business models. New technologies are needed for specific solutions that optimise the value/cost ratio of ‘Plus Energy Houses’ (PEHs). The EU-funded CULTURAL-E project will develop new technologies based on an accurately designed map of European climates, building patterns and cultural-energy customs. The project intends to develop tailored solutions for effective and cost-affordable interior environmental conditions based on the concept of regeneration for both the outside and inside environment. The project will use advanced ventilation and solar control technologies and will deploy a specific management strategy that averts high energy demands.
Objective
CULTURAL-E aims to define modular and replicable solutions for Plus Energy Houses (PEHs), accounting for climate and cultural differences, while engaging all key players involved in the building life cycle; to create comfortable, efficient, and affordable indoor environments. CULTURAL-E will develop technologies and solution sets that are tailorable to specific contexts and energy demands, as well as performing a comprehensive optimization of the value/cost ratio of PEHs. Sets of design-for-assembly technologies will be produced and driven by a careful mapping of European climates, building archetypes, and cultural energy habits; going beyond the positive by maximizing the share of the demand covered by renewable sources (toward Ø emissions in the operational phase). The CULTURAL-E solution sets are the result of a user-centric design process and aim to achieve and affordably maintain the best indoor environmental conditions. The houses become regenerative for the indoor and outdoor environment in the life cycle, with minor extra costs compared to nZEB, thus guaranteeing a sound return of investment. E-mobility is dealt through a dedicated management strategy to avoid energy demand peaks coming from the simultaneous fast-charging of multiple vehicles. Despite an “agnostic approach” to technology selection, CULTURAL-E will enhance the TRL of specific key technologies, such as air movement for summer thermal comfort, natural and mix-mode ventilation, packed and modular HVAC units, industrialized active window systems for natural ventilation and solar control, cloud-based house management system, and user involvement in the continuous building control, optimized envelope (tailored thermal features). Finally, to increase the replicability of the solutions and the adoption of a “cultural-centric” design, key market players involved in the PEH development are supported by dedicated tools and guidelines that will assist the development of robust, inclusive business models.
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39100 Bolzano
Italy
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Participants (22)
28006 Madrid
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30123 Venezia
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73100 Lecce
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70174 Stuttgart
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UB8 3PH Uxbridge
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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64600 Anglet
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7034 Trondheim
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70599 Stuttgart
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00198 Roma
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59650 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ
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0037 Oslo
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02906 Dauban
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40026 Imola Bo
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28003 Madrid
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TW7 6RS London
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46037 Mantova
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20067 Tribiano
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74385 Pleidelsheim
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41122 Modena Mo
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1337 Sandvika
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70619 Stuttgart
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