Zero carbon building have been seen as the goal of sustainability engineers; this is an interesting example of some novel technologies applied to an educational facility. Taking a holistic approach, this building generates power, stores it and then uses it to run the building. As ever, the interesting thing will be how quickly the costs of these technologies become comparable with conventional solutions and so become more widely used...
Buildings as power stations. A case study: The Active ClassroomAugust 2018 Written by Joanna Clarke, Building Integration Manager at Specific: An innovative case study of a newly constructed building that generates more energy than it consumes. At Specific Innovation and Knowledge Centre (www.specific.eu.com), an academic and industrial collaboration led by Swansea University, a new concept for buildings of the future is under development – buildings that generate, store and release their own energy.
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