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Sustainable urban Planning with Innovative and low energy Thermal And power Generation fröm Residual And renewable Sources (PITAGORAS)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
The project is focused on efficient integration of city districts with industrial parks through smart thermal grids. The overall objective of the project is to demonstrate a highly replicable, cost-effective and high energy efficiency large scale energy generation system that will allow sustainable urban planning of very low energy city districts.The main focus of the project is medium (150-400ºC) ...
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re-conceptualize shopping malls from consumerism to energy conservation (COMMONENERGY)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
CommONEnergy focuses on existing shopping malls to be refurbished and buildings with a different original function, redesigned to become shopping malls. Wholesales&Retail buildings represent 28% of the total non-residential building stock (BPIE, 2010), accounting for approximately 157 Mtoe in 2005 (EU EEAP). Considering typical shopping malls high impact on modern society (ICSC, 2008), the project ...
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Envelope Approach to improve Sustainability and Energy efficiency in Existing multi-storey multi-owner residential buildings (EASEE)
Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,
EASEE aims at developing a tool-kit for energy efficient envelope retrofitting of existing multi-storey and multi-owner buildings which combines novel design and assessment strategies, modular prefabricated elements, advanced insulating materials and new scaffolding-free installation approaches, to reduce energy demand, minimising the impact on occupants while preserving the façade original appear ...
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EFFECTIVE INTEGRATION OF SEASONAL THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS IN EXISTING BUILDINGS (EINSTEIN)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
Energy use in buildings accounts for approximately 40% of EU energy consumption. Energy efficiency in new buildings is important, but existing building stock is the main target. Existing buildings, however, are characterised by particular requirements and constraints that are not present in new buildings and that requires new developments and adaptation of existing technologies.In order to fulfil ...
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Lens that mIGHT be a Satisfactory Way Of Reducing age Degradation of Sight (LIGHTSWORDS)
Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,
Ageing of society is an issue of increasing importance for Europe. According to Eurostat, 36,5% of the European population is more than 50 years old and this percentage is constantly growing. In the next decades, Europe’s growth will increasingly depend on the ability to capitalise on the skills of ageing people: the goal set by EU for 2020 is to achieve an employment rate of 50% for older workers ...
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Intelligent personal protective clothing for the use with high-power hand-held laser processing devices (PROSYS-LASER)
Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
Prosys-Laser is dedicated to develop highly innovative “passive” and “active” laser protective clothing for the use with hand-held laser processing devices (HLD), which are not available on the market today. Major project objectives are: a) Open new markets for high performance PPE and its testing, especially enforcing participating SME to widen their product range and directly benefit from projec ...
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Development of a cost-effective and lightweight hand pallet truck for application in material handling (ECOPAT)
Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
"The manufacturing of plastic products has dramatically decreased during the last years. Therefore, several SMEs are opening their market to a wide range of not exploited sectors and developing advanced/innovative products through the use of cutting edge technologies. The hand pallet truck (HPT) production has been identified as one possible application where techno-plastics could play a crucial r ...
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