Green Buildings Research in CIT, Ireland,
and with French Partners
Dirk PeschHead of Centre
NIMBUS Centre for Embedded Systems Research
Cork Institute of Technology
[email protected] 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