Images of climate innovation
The art of net-zero social living
INDU-ZERO is a collaboration between 14 European organisations from 6 countries that aims to transform approximately 22 million properties across the entire North Sea region. The housing, built between 1950 and 1985, is typically poorly insulated and energy inefficient, however through the applied expertise of the consortium, a blueprint has been designed to develop a cost-effective, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sustainable and friendly technological solution to deliver sustainable, net-zero renovation packages.
INDU-ZERO is a transformational project that aims to develop a cost-effective, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sustainable and friendly technological solution to transform 22 million social houses in the North Sea region. These houses typically have poor energy insulation or energy efficiency, coupled with high running energy bills and negative social impressions.
This transformation will be delivered by a smart factory Blueprint for an innovative factory that will be able to produce 15,000 renovation packages per year at half of the current price to renovate such a house. The project, initiated by Interreg North Sea Region, started in 2018 and will run until the end of 2021. Led by the Province of Overijssel (the Netherlands), 14 European organizations from 6 countries including leading academics and industrial partners have collectively tackled this challenging multiple disciplinary societal problems faced by all North Sea region countries.
The INDU-ZERO consortium applies their knowledge and skills to design a Blueprint that can produce sustainable net Zero renovation packages for these targeted existing houses. A novel renovation package has been designed using sustainable materials with optimised manufacturing for sustainable living. The standardized INDU-ZERO approach can be applied to terraced houses and apartments built between 1950 and 1985 across the whole North Sea Region.
The core research of INDU-ZERO project is to advance technologies for sustainable and high-quality living in social housing through renovation and this investigates an innovative renovation package design solution and creates a smart manufacturing solution to make these renovation packages cost-effectively so they are affordable, and facilitate deliver goals toward net-zero. The renovation package has been designed and modelled to optimise its thermal performance so they have minimal energy loss. Dampness and poor air quality are eliminated through the introduction of active air control and ventilation.
A smart factory blueprint has been created to ensure the renovation package can be manufactured for mostly varying house types and sizes through precision customisation. Each house will be treated as an individual house for renovation and the manufactured solution is a perfect fit for the house and installation is made easy. The blueprint also ensures that the annual target of 15,000 renovation packages is produced and the factory itself is sustainably operational.
Entrant: Xiu-Tian Yan , University of Strathclyde
Copyright: Herbert Born, Buro de Haan
Collaborators: Provincie Overijssel, Ghent University, RCPanels, KAMPC, Johanneberg Science Park, Buro de Haan,