Building market demands high indoor environmental quality but is under the pressure of energy price volatility, European policies, targeting a carbon neutral building stock by 2050, and local building regulations. A drastic carbon footprint reduction on the EU building stock is only possible with:

1. a strong reduction of heating and cooling energy demand and
2. the limitation of the embodied environmental impacts of building materials.

A disruptive facade concept, the ZERo-carbon building enabler Adaptive opaque Facade (ZERAF), is proposed to get a huge decrease in the operational energy demand, while reducing the environmental impact of new and existing buildings through novel materials.

ZERAF concept enables shifting the opaque building facade systems from being static thermal barriers to thermal modulators.

Start date: July 2022 - End date: June 2026

Partners

• Accademia Europea Di Bolzano
• Ingpuls Smart Shadings Gmbh
• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Indresmat Sl
• Active Insulation Systems B.V.