The Active Building Centre Research Programme (ABC RP)
Lead Research Organisation:
Swansea University
Department Name: College of Engineering
Abstract
The ABC is one of the two hubs funded through the Transforming Construction (TC) Industrial Challenge. ABC aims to revolutionise the way the UK designs, manufactures, constructs and operates buildings.
The TC challenge was principally focused on meeting the targets set in the Construction 2025 strategy, namely to:
reduce whole-life costs by 33%; reduce whole-life emissions by 50%; slash time from conception to completion by 50%; boost productivity by 15% close the gap with the average for the economy
The ABC must first focus upon ensuring that the industry can meet the objectives of the TC Challenge listed above; whilst also working towards the wider and more long term targets faced by the industry. To achieve the government's target for net-zero by 2050 will require significant changes in how we design new buildings, how new technologies are developed and adopted, how buildings and community assets interact as part of the wider energy network, and how we approach retrofit of the existing building stock.
The ABC RP is responsible for carrying out the early stage research to support the activities of the ABC RTO, with the combined mission to enable transformative change and innovation within the construction industry, and to progress a long-term pathway that ensures that the built environment is an integral part of the wider energy infrastructure.
The ABC RP brings together a consortium of leading Academics, across 10 university partnerships. Combining expertise from both the built environment and energy sectors, including: architecture and design, low and zero carbon technologies, analytics and modelling, social science and human interaction, and business modelling.
Typically buildings are simply consumers of energy, they can optimise their energy usage within the constraints of the building envelope, however they do not respond to, or interact with the wider energy network. As we progress towards zero carbon there will be increasing integration of renewable generation technologies within buildings, and electrification of heating through the use of heat pumps or direct electric heating. Combining this with the electrification of transport, and the increasing use of electric vehicles, has the potential to put significant additional strain on the existing infrastructure, unless we adapt how we design and control buildings in-use.
By managing building loads in response to the needs of the grid, through transactive energy approaches such as demand response, or through the use of distributed generation and storage, buildings can provide benefits at a community or wider scale. For example by reducing demand or exporting to the grid at times of peak demand; providing ancillary services to the grid such as voltage and frequency response, and providing increased reliability and resilience through distribution of energy assets.
To achieve a truly seamless integration of buildings within the wider energy infrastructure and enable a transactive market between buildings and the grid, which functions effectively and delivers benefits to all stakeholders whilst maintaining grid stability, presents a number of technological and legislative challenges. The ABC RP aims to tackle these and to address the following key challenges:
1) Demonstrate the benefits of ABs across building and community scales.
2) Demonstrate implementation of compact thermal storage solutions to enable effective multi-vector energy optimisation at building, community and national level.
3) Demonstrate the use of advanced controls and optimisation processes for end-use energy reduction and optimisation of energy generation and storage (electricity and heat) to meet building demand and respond to wider grid requirements.
4) Understand and define the role Active Buildings can take as energy agents at national infrastructure scale.
5) Apply [1] through [4] to the retrofit challenge.
The TC challenge was principally focused on meeting the targets set in the Construction 2025 strategy, namely to:
reduce whole-life costs by 33%; reduce whole-life emissions by 50%; slash time from conception to completion by 50%; boost productivity by 15% close the gap with the average for the economy
The ABC must first focus upon ensuring that the industry can meet the objectives of the TC Challenge listed above; whilst also working towards the wider and more long term targets faced by the industry. To achieve the government's target for net-zero by 2050 will require significant changes in how we design new buildings, how new technologies are developed and adopted, how buildings and community assets interact as part of the wider energy network, and how we approach retrofit of the existing building stock.
The ABC RP is responsible for carrying out the early stage research to support the activities of the ABC RTO, with the combined mission to enable transformative change and innovation within the construction industry, and to progress a long-term pathway that ensures that the built environment is an integral part of the wider energy infrastructure.
The ABC RP brings together a consortium of leading Academics, across 10 university partnerships. Combining expertise from both the built environment and energy sectors, including: architecture and design, low and zero carbon technologies, analytics and modelling, social science and human interaction, and business modelling.
Typically buildings are simply consumers of energy, they can optimise their energy usage within the constraints of the building envelope, however they do not respond to, or interact with the wider energy network. As we progress towards zero carbon there will be increasing integration of renewable generation technologies within buildings, and electrification of heating through the use of heat pumps or direct electric heating. Combining this with the electrification of transport, and the increasing use of electric vehicles, has the potential to put significant additional strain on the existing infrastructure, unless we adapt how we design and control buildings in-use.
By managing building loads in response to the needs of the grid, through transactive energy approaches such as demand response, or through the use of distributed generation and storage, buildings can provide benefits at a community or wider scale. For example by reducing demand or exporting to the grid at times of peak demand; providing ancillary services to the grid such as voltage and frequency response, and providing increased reliability and resilience through distribution of energy assets.
To achieve a truly seamless integration of buildings within the wider energy infrastructure and enable a transactive market between buildings and the grid, which functions effectively and delivers benefits to all stakeholders whilst maintaining grid stability, presents a number of technological and legislative challenges. The ABC RP aims to tackle these and to address the following key challenges:
1) Demonstrate the benefits of ABs across building and community scales.
2) Demonstrate implementation of compact thermal storage solutions to enable effective multi-vector energy optimisation at building, community and national level.
3) Demonstrate the use of advanced controls and optimisation processes for end-use energy reduction and optimisation of energy generation and storage (electricity and heat) to meet building demand and respond to wider grid requirements.
4) Understand and define the role Active Buildings can take as energy agents at national infrastructure scale.
5) Apply [1] through [4] to the retrofit challenge.
Organisations
- Swansea University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Pobl Group (Collaboration)
- Denbighshire County Council (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- First Choice Housing Association Ltd (Collaboration)
- Tai Tarian (Collaboration)
- Rhondda Housing Association (Collaboration)
- Cardiff Council (Collaboration)
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (Collaboration)
- Coastal Housing Group (Collaboration)
- Tai Calon Community Housing (Collaboration)
- Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Collaboration)
- Vale of Glamorgan Council (Collaboration)
- DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- CONSTRUCTION SCOTLAND INNOVATION CENTRE (Collaboration)
- Porge Town Hall (Collaboration)
- MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- DIGITAL CATAPULT (Collaboration)
- MELIN HOMES (Collaboration)
- Aberdeenshire Council (Collaboration)
- Cartrefi Conwy Cyfyngedig (Collaboration)
- Anglesey Council (Collaboration)
- Ofgem Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Collaboration)
- DeSaH BV (Collaboration)
- Bron Afon Community Housing (Collaboration)
- MIPU (Collaboration)
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Collaboration)
- Government of Wales (Collaboration)
- Wales & West Housing Association (Collaboration)
- Newydd Housing Association (Collaboration)
- Hafod Housing Association Limited (Collaboration)
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (Collaboration)
- Mid Group (Collaboration)
- Carbon Free Group (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Carmarthenshire County Council (Collaboration)
- Cadwyn Housing Association (Collaboration)
- Sero (Collaboration)
- Merthyr Valley Homes Limited (Collaboration)
- Blaenau Gwent Local Authority (Collaboration)
- Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (Collaboration)
- Sero Technologies Limited (Collaboration)
- University of the West of England (Collaboration)
- BRE Trust (Collaboration)
- Powys Council (Collaboration)
- Family Housing Association (Wales) (Collaboration)
- SoftInWay Inc (Collaboration)
- United Welsh (Collaboration)
Publications
Ahmad A
(2021)
A thermochemical energy storage based cooling and heating system: Modelling, experimental validation and lab-scale demonstration
in Energy Conversion and Management
Anagnostopoulos A
(2022)
Valorization of phosphogypsum as a thermal energy storage material for low temperature applications
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Anagnostopoulos A
(2021)
Red mud-molten salt composites for medium-high temperature thermal energy storage and waste heat recovery applications.
in Journal of hazardous materials
Anagnostopoulos A
(2021)
Phosphogypsum-Paraffin Composites for Low Temperature Thermal Energy Storage Applications
Anagnostopoulos A
(2022)
Microstructural improvement of solar salt based MgO composites through surface tension/wettability modification with SiO2 nanoparticles
in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Anagnostopoulos A
(2021)
Effect of carbon on the performance of red mud-molten salt composites for thermal management and waste heat recovery applications
in Journal of Energy Storage
Arnaboldi L
(2020)
Modelling Load-Changing Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems
in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Atam E
(2021)
Optimal Partitioning of Multithermal Zone Buildings for Decentralized Control
in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Berjawi A
(2021)
An evaluation framework for future integrated energy systems: A whole energy systems approach
in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Bird M
(2022)
Real-world implementation and cost of a cloud-based MPC retrofit for HVAC control systems in commercial buildings
in Energy and Buildings
| Title | The role of the 3DStock building stock model |
| Description | A short animation was commissioned by UCL to explain the role of the 3DStock building stock model to policy makers and the wider public in the context of the climate emergency |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppi0ssQPC3I&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=UCLEnergyInstitute |
| Description | In summary, 12 months into the award, the key findings with reference to the Strategic Objectives (SO's) are as follows: Important new research resources identified, and particularly noteworthy new research networks/collaborations/partnerships established in pursuit of "Critical Mass of Demonstrator Buildings (SO1)": Appointed to evaluate capital investment and uplift incentivisation fund for innovative housing of circa £125m. This has the potential to provide beneficiaries such as academia, industry and government, access to evidence of low/zero carbon technology implementation and in-use building performance through sub-metering across a wide range of technologies via multiple supply chain and implementation models. Significant new research questions, across engineering and social science are emerging due to this activity. Significant new knowledge generated by fulfilling "Smart and Connected Buildings (SO2)": in delivering this objective, an open-source Internet of Things (IoT) based messaging infrastructure was developed in collaboration with industry. The programme has begun implementation of the messaging infrastructure to collect data from buildings across the critical mass (SO1) and retrofit objectives (SO5). In conjunction with the messaging infrastructure, a naming convention and monitoring specification has been made available for industry partners to implement, with the eventual aim being a consistent and structured real-time database of building performance and technology performance data. It is projected that the programme will achieve circa 2,000 homes generating detailed and structured time-series data. Buildings as Energy Agents (SO3): ongoing research and development activity leading to real-world trials of energy agent hybrid heating systems for hard-to-treat existing homes in 2021. Aggregation of Active Buildings at National Scale (SO4): ongoing research and development activity due to be reported in next round. SO5 - Adapt Active Building Technology Portfolio to Tackle Existing Stock: 3DStock model of Sheffield City Region providing insight to stakeholders and enabling mapping of 6th Carbon budget and EPC measures. |
| Exploitation Route | Open source and available on github for software, tools and toolkits. Publications vary from open access to academic journals. |
| Sectors | Construction Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Energy |
| URL | http://abc-rp.com |
| Description | Findings and ongoing research stemming from ABC-RP activity has led to significant benefits and support to devolved government and third sector organisations. Whilst it is too early to quantify the economic and societal impact, it is clear that our work will provide significant recommendations to Welsh Government on low/zero carbon implementation and adoption by residents and occupants. The adoption of naming conventions and standardisation of performance evaluation will allow a community of 30+ third sector organisations to share and learn from their housing stock and better understand their decarbonisation/net zero journey based on evidence based and analytical approaches. Our continued focus in this area will enable 30+ third sector organisations adopt digital tools to better plan and validate their net zero organisational ambitions. Our outputs will enable a devolved government to adopt, for the first time, real-time performance validation of over £100m of public funding into low zero carbon technologies. This knowledge and evidence will be critical in derisking future fiscal stimulus to accelerate the UKs transition to a low/zero carbon economy. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Contribution from Dr Sara Walker to Ryder Architecture policy document for the Scottish Government on Net Zero Homes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Dominic Humphrey provided input to Green Finance Institute Information Requirements Framework |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.greenfinanceinstitute.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GFI-BUILDING-RENOVATION-PLANS-1.p... |
| Description | Green Finance Institute- UK framework for Building Renovation Plans |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.greenfinanceinstitute.co.uk/news-and-insights/green-finance-institute-launches-uk-framew... |
| Description | Mark Gillott- Filming commissioned by the Cabinet Office at Trent Basin for COP26 Climate Leaders Campaign |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWKkM-Co2A |
| Description | Mark Gillott- Trent Basin featured as one of ten global projects in DeZeen |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.dezeen.com/2021/09/14/ten-global-projects-low-energy-architecture-jared-green/; |
| Description | Nick Pidgeon- Low Carbon Energy & Environment Research Network Wales Report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://gov.wales/wales-research-performance-uk-and-global-comparators |
| Description | Speaker at Education Estates Conference (online) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Trent Basin Community Energy Project and Research featured in UK100/Siemens report 'Accelerating the rate of investment in local energy projects'. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | University Estates through Infrastructure Committee membership |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | A durable and scalable anti-soiling coating for solar modules |
| Amount | £493,262 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W010763/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition |
| Amount | £880,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | Demonstration of Energy Efficiency Potential (DEEP) |
| Amount | £2,700,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | FLEXIS Extension (Social Sciences) |
| Amount | £817,559 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Wales |
| Department | Welsh European Funding Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| Description | Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) |
| Amount | £19,903,412 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V027050/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Network headroom, engineering upgrades and public acceptance (NEUPA): Connecting engineering for heat system change to consumers and citizens |
| Amount | £1,232,009 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T023031/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | Technical Evaluation of SMETER technologies |
| Amount | £899,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Title | Active Building Model |
| Description | Walter Bassage (University of Sheffield) is in the final stages of development of an active building model that we can conduct real time testing on networks and applications. In addition we hope to open up this application to capture the flag events as a part of outreach. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Code to carry out optimal power flow (OPF) modelling of a microgrid representative of an active building |
| Description | Dr Matthew Woolf is working on code as part of Work Package 10 to carry out optimal power flow (OPF) modelling of a microgrid representative of an active building. This utilises an optimisation tool already used by others in the CAP group. It models multiple voltages and non-critical loads, energy storage and PV modelled over a 24 hour period. The aim is to explore the benefits of prioritising critical loads in the event of a rare outage event. In this way we can see how active buildings may add to the resilience of the local energy system. The basic tool consists of Pyomo (Python-based, open-source optimisation modelling language http://www.pyomo.org/) using the open source non-linear optimisation software library Ipopt (https://github.com/coin-or/Ipopt). |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Developed semi-automated energy reports for Trent Basin residents using Power BI software. |
| Description | Mark Gillott and team at Nottingham University have developed semi-automated energy reports for Trent Basin residents using Power BI software. This tool helps residents understand their energy relevant interaction patterns with their properties and provides them with a means to alter their behaviours. Simultaneously, this tool is used by the research team to assess the state of the testbed and disseminate research findings in a visually appealing manner. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | See above |
| Title | Digital model replicating the Trent Basin development's physical environment. |
| Description | The University of Nottingham team, in collaboration with Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), has built a digital model replicating the Trent Basin development's physical environment. The platform was experimentally launched in 2018 and updated in 2020 to display real-time and simulated data from the community energy scheme. The platform is a public user-friendly visually interactive tool, available to all residents and general public. Though this platform users can learn and interact with the community energy data. The digital twin platform can be accessed through this link: http://uk.ies-icl.com/UoNTrentBasin The platform disseminates the results of the Trent Basin energy scheme to residents and wider audience, while help raise awareness of the energy produced, stored and consumed at the community energy. This can help the residents to make more informed decisions to optimise the operation of the scheme and it has a great potential to impact on the energy consumption of the residents. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | http://uk.ies-icl.com/UoNTrentBasin |
| Title | Electrified Water and Space-heating Profile (EWASP) generator. |
| Description | Electrified Water and Space-heating Profile (EWASP) generator. Generates residential electricity profiles for residences of user defined size, age, and type, and with various heating system control strategies. Outputs have been used to study the impact of heating control strategies on distribution networks. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Outputs have been used to study the impact of heating control strategies on distribution networks. |
| Title | Test rig to characterize lab-scale prototype modular PCM storage systems. |
| Description | Mohamed Fadl designed, constructed test rig to characterize lab-scale prototype modular PCM storage systems. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | The University of Nottingham team, in collaboration with Integrated Environmental Solutions digital model replicating the Trent Basin development's physical environment. |
| Description | The University of Nottingham team, in collaboration with Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), has built a digital model replicating the Trent Basin development's physical environment. The platform was experimentally launched in 2018 and updated in 2020 to display real-time and simulated data from the community energy scheme. The platform is a public user-friendly visually interactive tool, available to all residents and general public. Though this platform users can learn and interact with the community energy data. The digital twin platform can be accessed through this link: http://uk.ies-icl.com/UoNTrentBasin The platform disseminate the results of the Trent Basin energy scheme to residents and wider audience, while help raise awareness of the energy produced, stored and consumed at the community energy. This can help the residents to make more informed decisions to optimise the operation of the scheme and it has a great potential to impact on the energy consumption of the residents. Data collection from Trent Basin participating properties and community assets such as the battery, solar panels, and on-site weather station has been used to produce personalised monthly energy reports of 26 participating households. The purpose of these energy reports is to inform participants about the Trent Basin community energy scheme, raise awareness of householders' energy consumption and help householders discover potential opportunities for saving energy. Energy reports have been developed using Power Bi Software. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | http://uk.ies-icl.com/UoNTrentBasin |
| Title | modular framework for data capture, labelling, projection and feature extraction. |
| Description | Development of modular framework for data capture, labelling, projection and feature extraction. Existing in the form of processes, software and trained models, contributing to providing a scalable solution to autonomous extraction of building features |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | n/a |
| Title | 3DStock Sheffield |
| Description | UCL have built a research database (3DStock Sheffield) which provides premises level data on physical and occupancy characteristics for the whole of the Sheffield local authority area. This database can be used to model net zero pathways for buildings in Sheffield. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/energy/news/2020/may/3dstock-national-digital-twin-decarbonising-uks-... |
| Title | Dataset for "Indoor environment quality and work performance in 'green' office buildings in the Middle East" |
| Description | This data was collected from 13 office buildings in Amman Jordan. It covers five green 'LEED' buildings and eight conventional buildings. The dataset includes the following: 1. Objective data of four thermal conditions indicators (air temperature, mean radiant temperature, relative humidity and air speed) and an indoor air quality indicator: carbon dioxide concentration level. 2. Subjective data include the post-occupancy evaluation (POE) and absenteeism and presenteeism data. 3. Thermal comfort indicators included thermal sensation votes, thermal preference vote, and predictive mean vote. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/863 |
| Title | Dataset for "Novel super-reduced, pedagogical model for scoping net zero buildings'' |
| Description | ZEBRA is a model for scoping net zero buildings (energy and/or carbon). It focuses on a first-principles, transparent approach to building physics and sustainability. The tool is meant to be used at very early design stage, to influence fundamental design decisions. Its scope is operational energy use (life cycle stage B6, EN 15978:2011) and upfront embodied carbon (life cycle stages A1-A5), although the commentary targets whole-life carbon. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| URL | https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/1062/ |
| Title | Dataset for "Towards Active Buildings: rating grid-servicing buildings" |
| Description | Dataset for the journal paper "Towards Active Buildings: rating grid-servicing buildings", which describes the simulations for the 20 case study buildings. The simulation inputs describe the intended characteristics as part of the early design stage process, and the outputs the performance metrics under the rating system introduced in the journal paper, called the ABCode1. Such outputs rate the relative merits of each case study in terms of embodied carbon, energy requirements, energy generation and energy flexibility. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/766 |
| Title | Dataset for "Towards Active Buildings: rating grid-servicing buildings" |
| Description | Dataset for the journal paper "Towards Active Buildings: rating grid-servicing buildings", which describes the simulations for the 20 case study buildings. The simulation inputs describe the intended characteristics as part of the early design stage process, and the outputs the performance metrics under the rating system introduced in the journal paper, called the ABCode1. Such outputs rate the relative merits of each case study in terms of embodied carbon, energy requirements, energy generation and energy flexibility. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | TBC |
| URL | https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/766/ |
| Title | Metadata record for the manuscript: Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems |
| Description | Summary This metadata record provides details of the data supporting the claims of the related manuscript: "Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems". The related study identified the hotspots of imports in cities to redirect resources to where they are most needed, based on the system overall resource effectiveness to maximise the use of all resources available. It also developed a novel taxonomy of resource-use behaviour based on the clustering patterns of resource utilisation and conversion across inter-connected urban systems. Data access Seven datasets were generated and are shared openly as part of this figshare record. All datasets are named according to the terminology used in the related article. The datasets are as follows: - Comtrade_data_UK (supporting a method in the Supplementary Information) - Effectiveness_results.txt (supporting Figs 3, 5, 6) - Efficiency_fua.txt (supporting Fig 7) - Exergy_conversion.xlsx (supporting a method in the Supplementary Information) - Export by sector.csv (supporting Fig 4) - Import by sector.csv (supporting Fig 4, 5, 6) - ONS_data_UK.xlsx (supporting Fig 4, 5, 6) Corresponding author Ling Min Tan, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom. Email: lingmin.tan@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Metadata_record_for_the_manuscript_Mapping_reso... |
| Title | Microsoft Azure database |
| Description | Mark Gillott (University of Nottingham) has created a Microsoft Azure database for monitored data from Trent Basin Community energy scheme. Includes - detailed energy, weather and environmental data from homes and community energy system. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Modelling framework and database of models |
| Description | The modelling framework enables physics-based building models to be quickly developed and imported to a Matlab-based platform with a set of tools for control system design and building simulation. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Edward O'Dwyer has created a modelling framework and database of models. The modelling framework enables physics-based building models to be quickly developed and imported to a Matlab-based platform with a set of tools for control system design and building simulation.. |
| URL | https://github.com/abc-rp/WP5-Predictive-Control |
| Title | Training dataset |
| Description | Training dataset containing set of images of building facades from drive-by and corresponding manually annoated labels. Used to train deep models for building automated labelling tools of building facades. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | n.a |
| Title | Uncertainty Model-MP |
| Description | Meltem Peker and ABC colleagues have developed a mathematical programming model that accounts uncertainty related to customer's behaviour. It is an adjustable robust optimization model which is one of the state-of-art techniques used to handle uncertainty. This model is generally used when there is no probability distribution for the uncertain parameters. The team will provide the full model and solution technique so that it can be reproducible by researchers. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Description | ABC - DfE collaboration on DfE genzero programme. |
| Organisation | Department for Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ABC - DfE collaboration on DfE genzero programme. Waterside primary school DfE Pathfinder project progress |
| Collaborator Contribution | ABC - DfE collaboration on DfE genzero programme. Waterside primary school DfE Pathfinder project progress |
| Impact | Progression of ABC collab on GenZero programme. Development of pathfinder specification |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Aberdeenshire Council - introductions and potential collaborations |
| Organisation | Aberdeenshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Review of where we can support the LA. And potential for collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Review of where we can support the LA. And potential for collaboration |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Anglesey Council - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Anglesey Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Automated residential retrofit assessment with Barnsley metropolitan council |
| Organisation | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Automated residential retrofit assessment with Barnsley metropolitan council |
| Collaborator Contribution | n/a |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Autonomous Manufacturing Lab - Explore cross-over and collaboration with the UCL robotics lab |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Autonomous Manufacturing Lab |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Explore cross-over and collaboration with the UCL robotics lab who were funded as part of TC Research Leaders fund |
| Collaborator Contribution | Explore cross-over and collaboration with the UCL robotics lab who were funded as part of TC Research Leaders fund |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | BEIS - Discuss ABC-RP support for BEIS funded programmes and SHDF |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Discuss ABC-RP support for BEIS funded programmes and SHDF |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discuss ABC-RP support for BEIS funded programmes and SHDF |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Blaenau Gwent - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Blaenau Gwent Local Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Discussed a few ongoing projects that BG are running and where we can support |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussed a few ongoing projects that BG are running and where we can support |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Bre - Great House Farm occupant engagement |
| Organisation | BRE Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Discuss Great House Farm occupant engagement |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discuss Great House Farm occupant engagement. Occupant engagement is already underway so not suitable for a WP9 case site |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Bron Afon Community Housing - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Bron Afon Community Housing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Cadwyn Housing Association - ORP disucssions |
| Organisation | Cadwyn Housing Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research - discussion for older people and smart home tech. |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | discussion for older people and smart home tech |
| Collaborator Contribution | discussion for older people and smart home tech |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cardiff City Housing - ORP Discussions |
| Organisation | Cardiff Council |
| Department | Cardiff City Housing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cardiff Metropolitan University - Discuss ORP |
| Organisation | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discuss occupant research for Pathfinder ORP |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discuss occupant research for Pathfinder ORP |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Carmarthenshire Council - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Carmarthenshire County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Cartrefi Conwy Cyfyngedig - ORP discusisons |
| Organisation | Cartrefi Conwy Cyfyngedig |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP Discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Coastal Housing - discussion for WP9 case sites |
| Organisation | Coastal Housing Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Discuss WP9 case sites |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discuss WP9 case sites |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with UWE on data around historic properties in London from the 3DStock London model |
| Organisation | University of the West of England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with UWE on data around historic properties in London from the 3DStock London model |
| Collaborator Contribution | n.a |
| Impact | n.a |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Construction Scotland Innovation Centre - discussion of Data and exemplar projects in Scotland. |
| Organisation | Construction Scotland Innovation Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Data and exemplar projects in Scotland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data and exemplar projects in Scotland. |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | DeSah.nl - synergies between ABC RP and DeSah.nl |
| Organisation | DeSaH BV |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discuss potential synergies between the two organisations for a Green Deal bid. DeSah design and install innovative waste water solutions and are interested in potential to apply this in a retrofit context. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discuss potential synergies between the two organisations for a Green Deal bid. DeSah design and install innovative waste water solutions and are interested in potential to apply this in a retrofit context. |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Denbigshire Council - ORP discussions occupant engagement |
| Organisation | Denbighshire County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Discuss occupant engagement. Work with ABC-RP with community engagement strategies & social research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discuss occupant engagement. Work with ABC-RP with community engagement strategies & social research |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digital Catapult - Introduction to ABC activities and identify opportunities to collaborate |
| Organisation | Digital Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Introduction to ABC activities and identify opportunities to collaborate |
| Collaborator Contribution | Introduction to ABC activities and identify opportunities to collaborate |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Energy implications of Covid-19 |
| Organisation | Nottingham City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Mark Gillott has had meetings with Nottingham City Council and Nottingham City Homes to collaborate on a joint-paper discussing the energy implications of Covid-19 on the City of Nottingham and its population. Using data and resources associated with ABC project - November 2020 |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/a |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Energy implications of Covid-19 |
| Organisation | Nottingham City Homes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Mark Gillott has had meetings with Nottingham City Council and Nottingham City Homes to collaborate on a joint-paper discussing the energy implications of Covid-19 on the City of Nottingham and its population. Using data and resources associated with ABC project - November 2020 |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/a |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Family Housing Association (Wales) - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Family Housing Association (Wales) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | First Choice Housing - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | First Choice Housing Association Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Greater Manchester Combined Authority - discussion net zero SME incubationsupport |
| Organisation | Greater Manchester Combined Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Net zero SME incubation support and digital roll-out |
| Collaborator Contribution | Net zero SME incubation support and digital roll-out |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Hafod Housing Association Limited - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Hafod Housing Association Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | IHP and OPR discussions - WG |
| Organisation | Government of Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Alignment with ABC-RP activity and WG needs and priority areas. Agreed Head of Terms between ABC-RP and WG |
| Collaborator Contribution | Alignment with ABC-RP activity and WG needs and priority areas. Agreed Head of Terms between ABC-RP and WG |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Knowledge share on Corby project |
| Organisation | Carbon Free Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Call to introduce ABC / Carbon Free Group. Presentation of Electric Corby Scheme. Potential dataset acquisition for RP WP's |
| Collaborator Contribution | Call to introduce ABC / Carbon Free Group. Presentation of Electric Corby Scheme. Potential dataset acquisition for RP WP's |
| Impact | Knowledge share on Corby project. Proposed transfer for project dataset to ABC RP |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Le Porge Mairine - green deal discussions |
| Organisation | Porge Town Hall |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Green deal discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | Green deal discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Manchester Metropolitan University - discussions zero carbon / behaviour change |
| Organisation | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | discussions zero carbon / behaviour change |
| Collaborator Contribution | discussions zero carbon / behaviour change |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Melin Homes - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Melin Homes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Merthyr Valley Homes Limited - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Merthyr Valley Homes Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | MiPU - green deal opportunities |
| Organisation | MIPU |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discuss Green Deal opportunities |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discuss Green Deal opportunities |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Newydd Housing Association Limited - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Newydd Housing Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Ofgem |
| Organisation | Ofgem Office of Gas and Electricity Markets |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Ofgem's Network Price Controls (RIIO-2) stakeholder call |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ofgem's Network Price Controls (RIIO-2) stakeholder call |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Ongoing collaboration with Pobl Group & Pobl Living |
| Organisation | Pobl Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing collaboration with Pobl Group & Pobl Living (2017/18 - present) regarding two Pobl housing developments that Nick Pidgeon and the workpackage 9 teams have selected as research case sites. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data collection has commenced at data collection at case site 1 (Parc Eirin) |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Ongoing collaboration with Sero Energy |
| Organisation | Sero Technologies Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing collaboration with Sero Energy (2019 - present) regarding two Sero housing developments that Nick Pidgeon and the workpackage 9 team have selected as research case sites. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data collection has commenced at case site 1 & 4 (Parc Eirin & Parc Hadau). |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Ongoing partnership with Sheffield University since February 2020 on white papers and data sharing via workshop. |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing partnership with Sheffield University for WP17 since February 2020 on white papers and data sharing via workshop. |
| Collaborator Contribution | n/a |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pobl - discussion on WP9 case sites |
| Organisation | Pobl Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Discussion on case sites, Parc Eirin and Active Neath Homes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion on case sites, Parc Eirin and Active Neath Homes |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Powys County Council - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Powys Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Rhondda Housing Association - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Rhondda Housing Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Scottish Housing Association Federation - IoT platform adoption |
| Organisation | Scottish Federation of Housing Associations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Explore opportunities for adoption of IoT platform and accessibility of data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Explore opportunities for adoption of IoT platform and accessibility of data |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Sero - Collaboration framework and discussion |
| Organisation | Sero |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration framework and discussions Agreement to enter into NDA |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration framework and discussions Agreement to enter into NDA |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | SoftInway - design software |
| Organisation | SoftInWay Inc |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussion around the design software AxStream (https://www.softinway.com/software) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion around the design software AxStream (https://www.softinway.com/software) |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Tai Calon Community Housing - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Tai Calon Community Housing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Tai Tarian - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Tai Tarian |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Taitarian - occupant engagement |
| Organisation | Tai Tarian |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ORP Discuss occupant engagement. Work with ABC-RP with community engagement strategies & social research |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP Discuss occupant engagement. Work with ABC-RP with community engagement strategies & social research |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | To discuss using Bryn Bagl as a WP9 case site |
| Organisation | Wales & West Housing Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | To discuss using Bryn Bagl as a WP9 case site |
| Collaborator Contribution | To discuss using Bryn Bagl as a WP9 case site |
| Impact | To discuss using Bryn Bagl as a WP9 case site |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Vale of Glamorgan Council - ORP discussions |
| Organisation | Vale of Glamorgan Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORP discussions |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | WP9 case site discussion |
| Organisation | United Welsh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | To discuss using Ty Silures as a WP9 case site |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ty Silures can be used as a WP9 case site |
| Impact | Ty Silures can be used as a WP9 case site |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | introduce Mid Group and ABC |
| Organisation | Mid Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | introduce Mid Group and ABC. Potential to align ABC school design specification development with industry MMC partner looking at same problem space. |
| Collaborator Contribution | introduce Mid Group and ABC |
| Impact | na |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Title | Code to carry out optimal power flow (OPF) modelling of a microgrid |
| Description | Dr Matthew Woolf is working on code to carry out optimal power flow (OPF) modelling of a microgrid. The aim is to explore the benefits of prioritising critical loads in the event of a rare outage event. In this way we can see how active buildings may add to the resilience of the local energy system. Please see the entry for 'Research Tools and Methods.' The basic tool consists of Pyomo (Python-based, open-source optimisation modelling language http://www.pyomo.org/) using the open source non-linear optimisation software library Ipopt (https://github.com/coin-or/Ipopt). |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Economic model predictive formulations |
| Description | The research activity has focused on the development of economic model predictive formulations minimising energy cost and emissions in active residential buildings. Different case studies have been analysed handling building elements that have the potential to provide significant improvements in terms of energy efficiency and reduction of costs and emissions. Economic Model Predictive Control (EMPC) methods have excellent potential for achieving the desired objectives since they enable straightforward integration of physical building constraints and maximum performance assessments to provide continual optimisation of the building management processes. A first case study presented an approach to simultaneous optimisation of design and operation of a residential building taking into account external weather conditions, as well as varying energy prices. The case study showcased the potential of the co-design framework in enhancing flexibility, self-sufficiency and achieving cost-effectiveness of the system. The presented co-design framework enables straightforward integration of the constraints related to the thermal comfort of the occupants, as well as the inclusion of cyclic constraints to take into account the seasonal storage. Batteries, PV panels and seasonal thermochemical storage, coupled with thermal solar, show benefits in increasing seasonal, intermittent renewable hosting capability. In the second case study, a short-horizon MPC formulation handling phenomena happening on multiple time scales through the determination of appropriate terminal condition has been investigated. The results show that omitting the long term dynamics cause significant degradation of the performance. In the last case studies, the analysis has focused on the integration of electric vehicles and demand-side response schemes in the building. Both cases have shown an increase in system flexibility and adaptability to support the wider energy system. The technical details are available in the submitted deliverables. Predictive control implementations https://github.com/active-building-centre/WP5-Predictive-Control using ICLOCS2 https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/ICLOCS" |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Stock model dashboard |
| Description | Enables variety of stakeholders to access the research output (3DStock model for Sheffield) without needing to write code or queries. The software is similar to Tableau in that it allows stakeholders to search and filter data and produce custom reports with charts and maps powered from the database. The dashboard can be put online for demonstration but isn't permanently on demand due to cost of the cloud computer, funding to support this is in discussion. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | N/a |
| Description | ABC City Scale Workshop - July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ABC City Scale Workshop, Sheffield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBC R4 The Bottom Line interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for BBC R4 The Bottom Line "Net Zero in the House" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000s9s9 |
| Description | BEIS on 3DStock models and digital twins for retrofit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The team at UCL attended a seminar to BEIS on 3DStock models and digital twins for retrofit on 15th July 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CBI/BEIS virtual roundtable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 9th November 2020, Dr Sara Walker took part in a CBI/BEIS virtual roundtable on Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy. Included in the roundtable were representatives of from academia, industry and government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CREDS-Decarbonising Heat in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 6/7/21, Kate O'Sullivan attended the CREDS workshop on 'Decarbonising Heat in the UK: An Energy System Architecture Perspective' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Cardiff University Researcher Showcase Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kate O'Sullivan attended and presented at the Cardiff University Researcher Showcase Conference (6th Dec) 'Towards a better future: Addressing critical challenges'" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colloquium on the Biographies of Artifacts and Practices-Kate O'Sullivan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 5/7/21, Kate O'Sullivan attended a Colloquium on the Biographies of Artifacts and Practices, talk by Sampsa Hyysalo (TU Berlin): Citizen Activities in Energy Transition: User Innovation, new Communities and the Shaping of Sustainable Future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Continuing Professional Development delivered to Square One Law, 1/6/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CPD lunchtime talk on renewable energy and energy transition to law firm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | DEePRED Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 7/7/21, Kate O'Sullivan attended DEePRED. Distributional Effects of Time of Use Tariffs event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Demonstration network of indoor IoT sensors installed at the Digital Media Centre, Barnsley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Steve Jubb (University of Sheffield) provided a demonstration network of indoor IoT sensors installed at the Digital Media Centre (DMC01) in Barnsley. Indoor gateway/sensor network to be installed early 2021. These activities funded by a variety of Pitch-In mini-projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Demonstration of 3DStock model to Energiesprong |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The team at UCL provided a demonstration of 3DStock model to Energiesprong on 18th March 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://energiesprong.org/ |
| Description | Drop in sessions for Trent Basin participants on personalised energy reports |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Drop-in session has been booked to each of the Trent Basin participating residents to discuss about their personalised energy reports (see research tools and methods for more detail). The objective is to create an opportunity in which each resident can discuss in private their energy consumption, raise awareness about main energy expenditures and discover potential opportunities for saving energy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Education Estates Conference (online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project work presented at Education Estates Conference (online), October 2020, Presentation Title: Digital Twins and their role in the Creation and Management of Zero-Carbon Higher Education Estates, University of Nottingham and IES. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Edward O'Dwyer-NMPC 2021 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Acceptance of special session at NMPC 2021 conference • Acceptance of paper "Predictive control co-design for enhancing flexibility in residential housing with battery degradation" at NMPC 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Elli Nikolaidou-GW4 Climate Alliance Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Elli Nikolaidou WP team presented their work in the context of the 'Our response to the Climate Emergency' event, following the successful selection of their submitted proposals. The event was organised by the GW4 Climate Alliance and held online in October 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Elli Nikolaidou-Learned Society of Wales Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Elli Nikolaidou attended a roundatable discussion in the context of 'The Climate Emergency and Social Inequality' research conference. This was organised by The Learned Society of Wales and held online in November 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Energy reports and useage meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Held 1-2-1 meetings (on 09/12/2020) with residents to discuss their energy reports and usage. Identified significant savings, including a left-on towel rail which used between 110 and 150 kWh in three consecutive months. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Engagement with local DNO - Western Power Distribution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with local DNO - Western Power Distribution. Contacted their innovation team in several 1-2-1 meetings, including at the 2-day virtual Energy Networks Innovation Conference (8th & 9th December 2020), to get project buy-in and discuss technical details. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Focus group discussions with experienced design practitioners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Focus group discussions with experienced design practitioners (Online): Twelve online focus group discussions were conducted in two rounds (September and November 2020), with each group comprising two or three participants (thirty in total) and the moderator/ facilitator (Elli Nikolaidou). The selection of participants was based on relevance (architects, engineers, sustainability consultants etc.) and experience/ seniority. As part of the discussions, participants expressed their thoughts about the future of the built environment and brought to the fore issues that concern them, such as the need to adopt a whole-life perspective when designing (new) buildings and the importance of verifying their performance in use. Participants also engaged with our Active Building Code (i.e. the new building design code we have been developing at the University of Bath) and provided their feedback on it, this helping us identify any relevant challenges and opportunities and ultimately ensure the real-world applicability of the code. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Green New Deal Fund Board Meeting, 5/6/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | External Advisor to Board, on investment decisions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Healthy Living in Low Carbon Homes-Advisory and Expert Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel established to share experiences and expertise on topics relating to low/zero carbon technologies in a housing setting. The team engaged members of the public and professionals in our research activities via two groups. Expert panel x6 (lay people) Advisory Board x 7 ( professionals) The team have held multiple panel meetings throughout 2020 and continually engage with both groups and wider stakeholders including RSLs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ITV Interview- Dr Sara Walker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Sara Walker was interviewed by ITV news to provide her response to the release of the UK Government Hydrogen Strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=7ec82cf6-b674-49f9-a9e9-15d15e53f3d5 |
| Description | ITV News - North East & Cumbria: Renewable energy tariffs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 11th November 2020, Dr Sara Walker was interviewed for an ITV News television programme for the North East & Cumbria. The content of the piece was renewable energy tariffs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Int. Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In October 2021, Dr R. M. Czekster presented "Aging and Rejuvenation Models of Load Changing Attacks in Micro-Grids" at the Workshop of Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR'21) through the workshop proceedings of the Int. Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'21). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | International Symposium-The 'new localism' in the energy transition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kate O'Sullivan attended and presented at international symposium The 'new localism' in the energy transition: methodological explorations, engagements, imaginaries (15th Oct) - Presentation title: "The new localism" in low carbon heat/energy policy: characterizing and responding to it |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Joachim Geske- IAEE first international online conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joachim Geske presented on 'the value of energy efficiency in residential buildings - a matter of heterogeneity, at the IAEE first international online Conference 09.06.2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iaee2021online.org/ |
| Description | John Walls- IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist Conference, Philadelphia, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | John Walls submitted papers to the 49th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist Conference, Philadelphia, USA: 1) Comparing Fluorinated and Non-Fluorinated Anti-Soiling Coatings for Solar Panel Cover Glass Luke O. Jones, Adam M. Law, Gary Critchlow, and John M. Walls 2) Testing the Abrasion Resistance of Porous SiO2 Anti-reflection Coatings for Solar Cover Glass Adam M Law, Farwah Bukhari, Luke O Jones, Ali Abbas, and John Michael Walls 3) ETFE and its role in the fabrication of lightweight c-Si solar modules F.Lisco, F.Bukhari, L.Jones, A.Law, J.M Walls, C.Ballif |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC49/ |
| Description | Learned Society of Wales Early Career Research Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kate O'Sullivan attended and participated in a roundtable discussion at the Learned Society of Wales Early Career Research Conference (26th Nov) 'The Climate Emergency and Social Injustice: Responses from Researchers in Wales' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Mark Gillott- 25th International Passive House Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Gillott attended 25th International Passive House Conference, Wuppertal & Online, 10-12 & 14-15 September 2021 and the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB-21), Online, 16-17 September 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Mark Gillott- Smart Local Energy KTN event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Mark Gillott attended the Smart Local Energy KTN event, Online, 19-22 July 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Mark Gillott-COP26 related blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | COP26 related blog: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/cop26-creating-net-zero-energy-communities, which will also be featured in a COP26 related exhibition stand in Nottingham city centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/cop26-creating-net-zero-energy-communities |
| Description | Mark Gillott-Poster for The Active Communities Revolution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster. TUBELO, R., GILLOTT, M., RODRIGUES, L., SHIPMAN, R., NAGHIYEV, E. BRADSHAW-SMITH, C., EBBS, N. (2021). The Active Communities Revolution. In: Climate Exp0 (online): Advancing a resilient, zero-carbon world. United Kingdom, 17-21 May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.digitalevents.uk/climateexp0 |
| Description | Mark Gillott-Sino-UK Joint Symposium on Post Covid-19 Pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sino-UK Joint Symposium on Post Covid-19 Pandemic: A Reconsideration for the Built Environment (online), 27-29 August 2021, Speaker, Presentation Title: Living post COVID-19 pandemic: Re-thinking spaces and energy use in housing. Tongji University & University of Nottingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.sujs2021.co.uk/ |
| Description | Mark Gillott-Transforming Construction Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Transforming Construction Blog: WELLS, J and NAGHIYEV, E. (14 June 2021). Behind the Meter Billing at Trent Basin. Available at: https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/behind-the-meter-billing-at-trent-basin/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/behind-the-meter-billing-at-trent-basin |
| Description | Monash Seminar-Looking at Buildings as Virtual Power Plants |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On the 26th May 2020, Dr Sara Walker delivered an online talk through the Monash Energy Institute to students at Monash University on Buildings as Virtual Power Plants. The talk included discussion of the potential for a building to offer flexibility to the local electricity network by reducing import from, or export to, the network at the point of connection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.monash.edu/energy-institute/news-events/past-events/events/2020/webinar-looking-at-build... |
| Description | NEA Warm Homes Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In September 2021, Kate O'Sullivan attended a number of events in support of NEA Warm Homes Week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Grid ESO Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 12/7/21, Kate O'Sullivan attended the National Grid ESO. Future Energy Scenarios 2021 event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Net Zero North East England indicators working group, 2/6/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Provided expert input to indicators working group for Net Zero North East England, indicators approved and adopted by North of Tyne Combined Authority. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NetZero Live - Buildings & Transport session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 11th November 2020, Dr Sara Walker was a panelist at a NetZero Live Conference 2020 Buildings & Transport roundtable session. The discussion points included Net-zero carbon buildings and transport policy, developing the green office of the future and EVs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://netzerolive.com/agenda/day-2/ |
| Description | Network Modelling Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Meltem Peker (RA on ABC) organized a series of workshops in October/November related to methods used on network modelling. In each of them, there were around 10 attendees that consisted of lecturers and researchers that use/know/want to learn the method. They improved knowledge and learned the state-of-the art techniques while applying it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Newcastle University Blog Piece |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Sara Walker wrote a blog for the new research focused Newcastle University blog webpage(from.ncl.ac.uk) on 'The energy sector and UK recovery in the wake of the COVID pandemic'. This included the different solutions for the energy sector when undergoing the rapid transformation required to meet national targets for net zero greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://from.ncl.ac.uk/the-energy-sector-and-uk-recovery-in-the-wake-of-the-covid-pandemic |
| Description | Newcastle WP5 Team- The 12th International Renewable Engineering Conference (IREC) 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 12th International Renewable Engineering Conference (IREC) 2021 has been attended and the following paper has been presented: "Nikkhah S, Allahham A, Royapoor M, Bialek JW, Giaouris D. A Community-Based Building-to-Building Strategy for Multi-Objective Energy Management of Residential Microgrids." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Nick Pidgeon- AsSIST-UK online conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Nick Pidgeon and WP team presented a paper at AsSIST-UK online conference, 09/09/21. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Ofgem Behavioural Insights Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Sara Walker delivered invited talk on the 13th May 2020 at an Ofgem Behavioural Insights Seminar on Building as power plants and the support buildings can offer networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Prof David Coley attendance at International Conference on Evolving Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof David Coley took part in a session on the ife cycle assessment of a deconstructable building at the International Conference on Evolving Cities, Southampton, UK, September 22-24. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://evolvingcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ICEC2021MarketingLeaflet.pdf |
| Description | ReWiRE event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 13/7/21, Kate O'Sullivan attended ReWiRE. Issues at the cutting edge of the energy transition: Climate Change Committee's Progress Report to Parliament 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Risk Group Seminar- Kate O'Sullivan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 1/7/21, Kate O'Sullivan attended and took part in a Risk Group Seminar- Phil Macnaghten: The Making of Responsible Innovation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Saman Nikkah-PowerTech Conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Newcastle PhD student Saman Nikkhah attended PowerTech conference 2021 and presented the paper "Developing a robust real-time model for energy management of microgrids'' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.powertech2021.com/images/site/Program_Powertech_completo.pdf |
| Description | Seminar to Cambridge combined local authority on 3DStock models for planning and energy team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The team at UCL hosted a seminar to Cambridge combined local authority on 3DStock models for planning and energy team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Seminar to Westminster local authority planning, estates and net zero teams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The team at UCL hosted a seminar to Westminster local authority planning, estates and net zero teams. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | St Andrew's Event- Applications & tools for co-simulating the Smart Grid and dependability concerns |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 1. Short talk (mini 1h-workshop) on a Computer Science discipline called Critical Systems at St Andrews University (Scotland), entitled "Applications & tools for co-simulating the Smart Grid and dependability concerns" Number of stakeholders: about 20 students Date: November 11th, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Symposium of Building and Cities (Energy, Emerging Technologies and Gender in Homes) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kate O'Sullivan attended, presented at and was a paper discussant at symposium for a special issue of the journal 'Buildings and Cities' (Nov 3-9). Paper due for development and submission in March "3. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | TBRA Zoom meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 4x TBRA Zoom meetings (03/11/2020, 18/11/2020, 01/12/2020, 16/12/2020) with approx. 20 Trent Basin residents attending each one. These engagement sessions helped recruit participants for the Behind-The-Meter project. At the point of writing, 15 residents have volunteered themselves for the Behind-The-Meter project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | TPAS - caron week presentabtion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Laura Holt presented at TPAS carbon week |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | TU Delft conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kate O'Sullivan attended and presented at the TU Delft conference 'Social innovation: next steps in the energy transition' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The City in 2040: Rethinking the City Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In July and September 2021, Kate O'Sullivan attended The City in 2040: Rethinking the City Centre - a series of three events being run jointly by the School of Geography and Planning and the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University, exploring how urban places might have changed by 2040 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Conversation- 'The Roundtable-Building a Sustainable Future' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In October 2021, Dr Sara Walker took part in 'The Conversation- 'The Roundtable-Building a Sustainable Future'. The event was to discuss the North East's pivotal role in transforming the UK into a global clean energy leader. Dr Walker raised a variety of issues such as the fact that the North East as a location, is ideal in terms of the mix of energy solutions that can be investigated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://netimesmagazine.co.uk/magazine/editorial/the-round-table-building-a-sustainable-future/ |
| Description | Training workshop on use of 3DStock London model for GLA Energy teams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UCL have undertaken a wide range of engagement activities as part of ABC with central and local government and potential commercial providers of retrofit solutions. The team at UCL attended a training workshop on 4th Feb 2020 on the use of 3DStock London model for GLA Energy teams. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum policy conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On the 9th June 2020, Dr Sara Walker was an invited speaker at the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum policy conference. The conference topic was on 'Developing smart electricity networks in the UK - innovation, policy and regulation, and decarbonising the grid'. An information pack of the content was also distributed to participants, delegates and a wider group of UK, national and local government officials and other interested parties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |