Interreg project: The building as a building block of the energy future
A large proportion of the energy we consume is used for heating and cooling buildings. If the energy transition is to succeed, we must make greater use of renewables for these purposes. And because renewable energies do not accrue with the usual constancy, one must at the same time create possibilities for storing heat and cold.
The project "The building as a building block of the energy future" is funded by Interreg Austria - Bavaria 2014 - 2020. In the course of the project, showcase projects and future potentials for the economy are to be made visible, technical, normative and legal obstacles are to be identified and solutions are to be proposed. To achieve this goal, the ITG Salzburg, the Kompetenzzentrum Bauforschung Salzburg, the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences and Bayern Innovativ will work together from mid-2019 to the end of 2021.
In the first phase of the project, experts from the construction and energy sectors in Bavaria and Austria from industry, research and public administration were surveyed on various aspects of thermal component activation. In part, this revealed significant differences between the two countries: In Austria, the use of TCA is already well advanced in practice and its future potential is seen more comprehensively than in Bavaria, where the focus is primarily on its use in commercial and public buildings. There are also some differences in the assessment of the advantages and disadvantages, as the following charts show.
Best practice examples for thermal component activation
Whoever is looking for lighthouse projects or companies with expertise in thermal component activation will find what they are looking for on the Innovation Map , which was created as part of the project. Structured according to sectors and fields of application, innovative buildings as well as participating architects, specialist planners and construction companies are presented here. The map is constantly growing and is open for further entries.
Due to the Corona pandemic, excursions and tours of buildings with component activation and innovative heating concepts could not be offered as originally planned as part of the project. The presentation had to be moved to the virtual space, for example the excursion to the Speicherstadt Vienna in October 2020, where the four projects "Stadtelefant", "Wohnbau MGG22", "Bundesschule Aspern" and "Bildungscampus Aspern Nord" were presented. The videos of the virtual tours are available .
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There was another highlight at the end of April 2021: the online user meeting "Thermal management of buildings" . The event, which was followed by about 180 participants, focused on the market, trends, potentials and economic efficiency. A total of six presentations showed how massive buildings and parts of buildings can become part of energy systems through thermal component activation and intelligent control.
A special feature of the event was the virtual excursion to the ETA factory . The participants were taken live to the demo factory at Darmstadt Technical University, where the linking of industrial manufacturing with state-of-the-art building technology is being demonstrated and further developed. In a virtual tour, the participants had the opportunity to get to know the ETA factory in detail.
Die ETA Fabrik in Darmstadt. (Bildnachweis: Eibe Sonnecken, Darmstadt)
Kapillarähnliche Leitungen für die Thermische Bauteilaktivierung. (Bildnachweis: Institut für Statik und Konstruktion, TU Darmstadt)
A continuation of the online user meeting "Thermal Management of Buildings" will be held on June 15, 2021 . At this event, the topic of building automation and networking will be discussed in more detail. In addition, some best practice examples will be presented.
