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Klimawandelanpassung

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Annex 80 Resilient Cooling in Buildings

Annex 80 Resilient Cooling in Buildings

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Förderstelle

Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft, International Energy Agency EBC

Förderbetrag

330.000€

Konsortium

  • Institute of Building Research & Innovation

  • e7 energy innovation & engineering

  • Fraunhofer Institut

  • Hunan University

  • University of Liege, Department of Architecture, Geology, Environment and Constructions

  • EURAC Research

  • Université de La Rochelle, Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Ingénieur pour l’Environnement

  • KU Leuven

  • Politecnico di Torino

  • GEBZE Technical University

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  • University o Gävle

  • Aalborg University, Department of the Built Environment

  • Effin'Art

  • Technical University of Denmark, Indoor Environment, Department of Civil Engineering

  • Brunel University of London, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Federal University of Santa Catarina

  • National University of Singapore

  • Lawrence Berkley National Labratory

  • Queensland University of Technology

  • Technical University of Denmark

  • Université de Sherbrooke, Department of Civil and Building Engineering

  • University of Lincoln, Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment

  • Concordia University

  • International Network for Information on Ventilation and Energy Performance (INIVE)/ (venticool)

  • Aarlborg University

  • Hunan University

  • ENEA - Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources Department

Kurze Zusammenfassung

Annex 80 Resilient Cooling of Buildings was started against the background of a worldwide rapidly growing need for cooling. It aimed to develop, evaluate, and communicate solutions for resilient cooling and overheating protection of buildings during heat waves and power outages.

Ziele

The main objective of Annex 80 (original title: IEA EBC Annex 80 Resilient Cooling of Buildings) is to support a rapid transition to an environment where resilient low energy and low carbon cooling systems are the mainstream and preferred solutions for cooling and overheating issues in buildings. The term "resilient cooling of buildings" refers to energy efficient, low emission, and financially affordable cooling concepts that increase resilience and prevent thermal and other climate change impacts at global and local level.

Annex 80 covers the spectrum of the following four technology groups:

  1. Reducing heat gains to the indoor environment and people environments

  2. Removing sensible heat from the indoor environment

  3. Increasing personal comfort apart from space cooling

  4. Removing latent heat from indoor environment

Methodik

Methodologically, the research activity is organised into four subtasks and further five over-arching task groups.

  1. Systematic evaluation of existing cooling technologies, their potential, limitations, and qualities of resilience.

  2. Development and improvement of cooling technologies in terms of robustness, efficiency, CO₂ neutrality and affordability.

  3. Evaluate the real-world performance of cooling technologies to identify performance gaps and develop solutions to systematically overcome them.

  4. Identification and communication of regulatory measures that can support the broad application of resilient cooling technologies. 

The results of Annex 80 are documented in seven deliverables in numerous scientific publications and are freely available.