green buildings research in cit, ireland, and with french partners dirk pesch head of centre nimbus...

Green Buildings Research in CIT, Ireland,

and with French Partners

Dirk PeschHead of Centre

NIMBUS Centre for Embedded Systems Research

Cork Institute of Technology

dirk.pesch@cit.ie http://www.nimbus.cit.ie

CIT Green Building Projects• CIT/UTRC-Ireland National Sustainable Building Energy Test-bed – strong

ICT focus• CIT Zero2020 Project, http://www.cit.ie/zero2020 - materials, structural, and

building systems focus• Several industry projects with SMEs in building energy/green building’s space

Intelligent Heat Management

SFI funded ITOBO project

• Several projects in Building Energy Space– EMWINS – diagnostics for energy efficient buildings– PCM – phase change materials thermal store for energy efficient heating– AUTHENTIC – Home area network for energy efficient residential

buildings

International Energy Research Centrehttp://www.ierc.ie

Selected Collaboration Ireland - France• FP7 SCUBA

– http://www.ict-scuba.eu– CIT (coordinator), UTRC-I, Schneider

Electric, CEA LETI

• FP7 COOPERATE– CIT, UTRC-I, Intel Ireland– Embix (Alstom), ETDE (Bouygues)

• FP7 EnPROVE– http://www.enprove.eu/– UCD Clarity, CSTB, ACTIVe3D

• FP7 FIEMSER– http://www.fiemser.eu/– UCD Clarity, Thales, CSTB, Tenesol