Abstract
The buildings used for educational purposes play an important role in the composition of towns and cities. Many universities function with existing buildings still in operation and have had several upgrades through the decades. However, the energy efficiency and lower carbon emission footprint of such buildings remain a challenge and building retrofits and new low-carbon technology have been suggested to meet current net-zero performance levels. This study investigates the potential of the wider infrastructure offering in highly dense cities where many of the university campuses are located. This study took two university campus sites, one in Navarra, Spain and another in Edinburgh, Scotland and identified the potential energy opportunities through energy demand profiling, renewable energy generation potential and other sources of energy supply, embedded within cities. The two university campuses analysed the occupant requirements and surveyed the building archetypes to find common solutions for retrofit interventions and the use of new and existing low-carbon heat sources that could be shared, reused or brought back to use with the potential to share and balance out energy needs and city-scale carbon emission savings. This work is significant as many of our cities that are seeking to decarbonise are relying on the electrical grid, which adds pressure to the transmission of the electricity and increases the need for new power substations and other infrastructure upgrades. The work developed provided a heat map and building archetype profiling for future retrofit and grid infrastructure planning between the two case study scenarios.
Presenters
Julio Bros WilliamsonLecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Net-Zero Buildings, Institute of Infrastructure and Environment, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom Robiel Manzueta
Researcher, Department of Building Construction, Services and Structures, Universidad de Navarra, Navarra, Spain Sara Dorregaray
Researcher, Department of Building Construction, Services and Structures, Universidad de Navarra, Navarra, Spain
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
ENERGY SOURCES, HEAT NETWORKS, RENEWABLE ENERGY, BUILDING RETROFIT, ENERGY DEMAND
