Project description
Innovative solutions for deep building renovation
The deep renovation of residential buildings has emerged as an essential step towards the reduction of buildings’ total primary energy consumption. The EU-funded PLURAL project will design and validate a set of flexible, adaptable, scalable, off-site prefabricated plug and play façade components, the Plug-and-Use (PnU) kits. It will deliver optimal practice, deep renovation examples for post-war residential buildings in different European climates. Partners will evaluate three key systems that couple heating-cooling, ventilation, and heat-harvesting systems with smart windows, 3D printing, low carbon footprint and nano-empowered coating materials. PLURAL relies on building information modelling, or BIM, Big Data management platform and a decision support tool to achieve optimal component selection and integration, perfect PnU kit design, and fast and low-cost manufacturing and installation.
Objective
PLURAL aims to design validate and demonstrate a palette of versatile, adaptable, scalable, off-site prefabricated plug and play facades accounting for user needs (“Plug-and-Use” kits). Three different core systems are assessed, coupling heating-cooling, ventilation, heat harvesting systems with smart windows, 3D printing, low carbon footprint and nano-enabled coating materials to reduce the building total primary energy consumption to less than 60 kWh/m2 per year and ensure on-site renewable energy generation to more than 50 kWh/m2 reaching NZEB status for different European climates and different residential building typologies.
A BIM based big data management platform and a Decision Support Tool (DST) are coupled to enable the optimal component selection, and integration, best PnU kit design, speedy and low-cost manufacturing and installation. Renewable energy and smart control systems are coupled with low environmental footprint prefabricated façade components to create the integrated all-in-one PnU kits for post war residential building deep renovation. The project creates best practice renovation examples for the residential sector based on innovation and competitiveness, with benefits for the citizens and the environment. It develops business cases and models for key stakeholders and improves the life cycle based performance standards applied in the building sector.
The solutions are implemented in three real and three virtual residential buildings to evaluate reduction in renovation time and costs, the PnU kit performance, carbon saving and users’ acceptance. The selected buildings cover all European climatic zones and are representative residential typologies. PLURAL will achieve at least 50% reduction in the time required for deep renovation of e.g. multi-family blocks. 58% reduction in renovation costs will be achieved through off-site prefabrication lean manufacturing and construction, interactively supported by the BIM based platform and DST.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic zones
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
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Participants (18)
14122 Irakleio
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166 73 VOULA
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638 00 Brno
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763 19 KASAVA
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160 00 Praha
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95050 Konstantynow Lodzki
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24050 GRASSOBIO
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15124 Marousi
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1253 Luxembourg
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8640 Rapperswil
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08018 Barcelona
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08018 Barcelona
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08930 Sant Adria De Besos
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08015 Barcelona
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10997 Berlin
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27801 KRALUPY NAD VITAVOU
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08700 IGUALADA
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795 01 RYMAROV
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