Bringing Material Change to the Way Buildings Consume Energy

Competitive advantage

• The knowledge and expertise to improve environmental quality in deprived urban zones and enhance the sustainability and survivability of low-income households
• A successful track record of:
  • Reducing the surface temperature of materials by up to 15°C
  • Decreasing ambient temperatures by up to 2°C
  • Lowering the cooling energy consumption of buildings by up to 40 per cent

Impact

• High efficiency and low-cost materials reduce the cooling demand of buildings and cities and improve their environmental conditions
• Improving building efficiency reduces the cost to cool buildings and contributes to the reduction of heat-related mortality and morbidity

Successful applications

• Industrial products have been commercialised all around the world
• Collaboration and testing of advanced products with many major industrial companies, like Daikin Chemicals and Isomat

Capabilities and facilities

• A fully-equipped laboratory able to perform any kind of energy and environmental measurements for the development and testing of building materials
• The lab includes a spectrophotometer to measure the spectral characteristics of materials
• An accelerating ageing chamber to perform ageing studies
• Equipment to measure emissivity, thermal conductivity and many other optical and thermal parameters of materials
• Thermal cameras and other thermal measuring equipment

Our partners

• Several construction companies, and companies producing energy systems for buildings.