energy house Salford Energy House 2.0 Partner Prospectus

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3 energy house Salford Energy House 2.0 Partner Prospectus

4 4 energy house 2.0 Energy House 2.0 Energy House 2.0 is an ambitious new proposal from the School of Built Environment at the University of Salford. We are preparing to build a major international test facility expanding on our world leading work at the Salford Energy House creating a major whole building test facility, a new world s first.

5 energy house We will be building a partnership of commercial, government, academic and funding partners to work with us to realise our vision of a research centre that will address the major issues of energy and buildings, not only in the UK, but across the world. This Partner Proposal explains what we will do and why, providing a starting point for us to bring together a consortium of interested parties to build something unique that will have a major impact on how we understand building energy performance and help shape the future built environment.

6 6 energy house 2.0 Rationale People living and working in buildings use 45% of all energy in the EU. As the world becomes more urbanised, creating bigger cities, it becomes more important for us to understand how our buildings perform. This informs a global construction and construction products industry that represents 15% of global GDP.

7 energy house We have a performance gap between how we think our buildings will perform and how they actually perform. We need better quality data, to give us a more detailed perspective of what is happening in our buildings. We need to think about buildings as systems the performance gap can only be closed when we understand how the whole building performs. Energy House 2.0 is designed to address these challenges, providing a global centre for the testing of whole buildings. People living and working in buildings use 45% of all energy in the EU. Global construction and construction products industry that represents 15% of global GDP.

8 8 energy house 2.0 Building on Success Within the Salford Energy House, we have conducted major projects with industry and academic partners to undertake groundbreaking work on issues such as whole house retrofit and controls. The Salford Energy House remains the only whole building test facility within an environmental chamber it allows us to address two key problems in understanding building energy performance. Firstly, we can control the weather by controlling the weather variables we can collect meaningful data in a short period of time. What might take 2 years in the field can take a matter of weeks in the Salford Energy House. Secondly, as it is a whole building, we can understand how it works as a system not just as individual parts. This is important, as it is far closer to what will happen in the field.

9 energy house We are taking these two key principles forward but looking beyond this to develop a facility that vastly increases the research questions we can ask.

10 10 energy house 2.0 Design Concept Energy House 2.0 will be a global hub for whole building testing...

11 energy house The key elements of Energy House 2.0 are: Three Environmental Chambers which will be able to achieve; Temperatures between -20C and 40C Wind and rain Solar Simulation Snow Laboratories and Analytical Facilities to support; Sensor Laboratory Thermal Laboratory Data Analysis and Visualisation Unit New Product Development Unit Meeting and viewing spaces; Sealed galleries for viewing Large board room Public viewing galleries

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13 energy house Energy House 2.0 will form the centrepiece of one of the University of Salford s Enterprise Innovation Zones spaces for industry and academia to engage in joint enterprise, research and teaching activity.

14 14 energy house 2.0 Key Concepts The Salford Energy House was designed to address the UK retrofit market. Although we learned to make more out of the facility, we understand that to address energy and buildings at the global level, we need to be more ambitious. The Energy House 2.0 team will provide what will technically be a greenfield site, for industry and academic partners to build on. Access for plant and materials will be through hanger doors into the chamber. This allows us to investigate building archetypes from around the world. The Energy House 2.0 Team can establish an intensive testing protocol to understand every aspect of property performance fabric, systems, controls and human factors can be explored in a controlled environment.

15 energy house Issues such as weather, occupants and issues with in situ sensors are removed or controlled and monitored in detail. Controlled, well- designed experiments provide detailed and useful data in a fraction of the time. Two years in the field, can be a matter of weeks in Energy house 2.0.

16 16 energy house 2.0 Interdisciplinarity The Energy House 2.0 will not only be about energy and housing we are looking at wider opportunities to bring teams of industry and academic researchers together to work on the problems of the future built environment. Designers, physicists, electronics engineers, materials scientists, acousticians, energy experts, construction specialists will all come together to address problems and share solutions.

17 energy house Proposed labs will include; Data Visualisation to address issues of large complex interrelated data sets, Sensor Labs to develop new ways of collecting data from the built environment, Thermal Labs rehousing our UKAS accredited laboratory, New Product Development Lab to bring research more effectively to market. The questions that can be potentially answered range from the performance of nano-material all the way to a better understanding the Smart Homes and Future Cities agendas.

18 18 energy house 2.0 Open Science Energy House 2.0 will form a fundamental part of the University of Salford s Industrial Collaborations Zones. It will provide a space not only for research and industry to come together, but also provide a teaching resource and a vehicle to promote the public understanding of science. The concept design for the facility includes; High quality meeting spaces to allow collaborators to meet and share ideas, Access to the chamber to allow individuals to view the experiments without influencing the results, Public space to support tours by schools, HE students and interested members of the public.

19 Energy House 2.0 building on the University of Salford s reputation for making science outward facing and meaningful for the wider community. energy house

20 20 energy house 2.0 Partnership Energy House 2.0 will represent a major international facility, helping answer questions that cut across sectors and countries. To successfully deliver Energy House 2.0 and ensure it delivers its value as a research facility, we need to engage with partners to help deliver and shape the concept co- producing an internationally significant facility. We are looking for early engagement with the following types of partners; Industry Partners will form the core of what we do they are the people who will deliver the new products and services that will shape the future built environment. This includes controls and heating systems manufacturers, construction products companies, contractors and energy companies. Research Partners, both UK and internationally, will help shape the questions and innovate around testing and analysis. Government Energy remains a key policy issue Energy House 2.0 is dedicated the help provide evidence to inform policy makers. Funding Councils we would like to congregate a large number of organisations to answer strategic questions for many countries. We welcome early involvement of funding councils to help shape the future of a major facility.

21 energy house To successfully deliver Energy House 2.0 and ensure it delivers its value as a research facility, we need to engage with partners to help deliver and shape the concept

22 22 energy house 2.0 Time Line The current projected budget for the facility has been predicted at 14-16m. We will be funding the project with a mixture of commercial partnership and public funding reflecting the applied nature of the project. The key following task will be addressed has been identified; Partnership Building the partnership will be made from commercial and research partners, who will form a Project Board supported by a Technical Steering Group these two groups will develop and steer the brief with the University of Salford s team. Strategic Definition: Early 2016 Detailed Brief and Conceptual Design Sourcing Funding: Jan 2016 March 2017 Detailed Design/Technical Design: Early 2017 Procurement and Construction: 2017 Commissioning and Handover: 2018

23 The success of the project will be driven by its ultimate use. By engaging with the people who will use the facility and working with them to ensure it meets their aspirations, we will develop an internationally leading facility in the UK. energy house

24 24 energy house 2.0 Getting Involved The Energy House 2.0 project is being co- ordinated by Professor Will Swan and Richard Fitton of the Applied Buildings and Energy Research Group, School of Built Environment, University of Salford. If you have any queries or are interested in gettng involved in the project please contact us and we will help.

25 energy house Project Lead Professor Will Swan Maxwell 422 University of Salford The Crescent Salford M5 4WT United Kingdom E w.c.swan@salford.ac.uk T +44 (0)

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