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