Building envelope 2030
The project is finished with the book 'Foresight' describing the paramount changes following the increased capacity of computers, reduced size, web connectivity, mobility and improved performance/prize ratio. In 20 years almost all routine jobs can be substituted by computers and robots. Specifically for the building sector the book propose the potential in a kind of 'rapid prototyping' machine 'printing' the entire building directly from the CAD model.
The 2030 project is strategic and is based upon the aims of the EFP strategy paper 2030. Among the conclusions of the paper was that material/technological development was necessary in order to meet the target of fabricating plus-energy building that was effective in operation, adaptive in use, economically feasible and that such development was not solely dependent upon evolutionary growth. The projects target is thus to reduce the time involved from research to industrial product, taking a lead from the recent phenomenal success of the production industry on the whole. More rapid development will have a greater consequential effect upon when plus-energy building is possible. In order to evaluate technological potential, the project will establish which key technologies need to be developed and investigate all associated research involved in such technological development. The project will thus establish the status quo of international research and development of interest to plus-energy building. It is also the aim of the project to apply such technological knowledge to the application of patented production. The application of such a method enables the exploitation of new technological breakthroughs as a means of solving problems that cannot be solved through the application of existing practice, in turn contributing towards successful application
This 'printer' could be a kind of 3D ink jet printer, substituting the colours with cement, fibres and sand. Strong parts of the building are made from cement and fibres, insulation is made almost entirely from fibres with a little cement gluing, and surfaces are made from cement without fibres. Paint could be added in the process as well. The book describes a completely CO2 neutral scenario based on cracking natural gas into hydrogen and CO2, and returning the CO2 to the underground, for instance at the drilling sites. The hydrogen is used in fuel cells, either in the buildings supplying heat and electricity to building and electricity to the grid, or in fuel cell cars producing electricity to building and grid when parked. It will also be possible to heat the buildings with excess heat from the cars
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P.O. Box 141
DK-2630 Taastrup, Denmark
Moltke, Ivar (arkitekt), 43504500, ivar.moltke@teknologisk.dk; mark.dyson@teknologisk.dk
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