01/09/2025
💡New Building facadE performancE Lab publication in Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier).
We are proud to announce the publication of our latest research:
📍 “Design, construction, and operation of a novel Open Innovation Test Bed for real-life performance assessment of multilayer building envelope solutions”.
Authors: Graziano Salvalai, Diletta Brutti, Marta Maria Sesana.
This work presents the development of an innovative Open Innovation Test Bed (OITB) designed to evaluate the real-world performance of multilayer building envelope systems, a key step toward enabling next-generation sustainable buildings.
🏗️ What’s inside:
– full-scale design and construction of a novel testing facility;
– real-life performance assessment of advanced envelope materials;
– a platform to accelerate innovation uptake across the construction sector;
– strong alignment with EU sustainability and energy goals.
💡 This research is part of the MEZeroE hashtagH2020project (Measuring Envelope products and systems contributing to next generation of healthy nearly Zero Energy Buildings), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (Grant Agreement No. 953157).
🌐 Form more about the hashtagMEZeroE project: https://www.mezeroe.eu/
📖 Feel free to read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ehdm2cR9
The building market has recently seen new compelling opportunities in the field of off-site construction and in particular dry-assembly envelope systems, thanks to their advantages. The system, based on the mechanical assembly of materials on a resistant structure, offers high energy performance and superior acoustic and thermal comfort. Nevertheless, the current market highlighted the need for an holistic approach to implement such energy-efficient technologies involving research centers and university with their Living Labs for performance validation. The present work, funded within the MEZeroE Horizon 2020 project, discusses the creation of a unique ecosystem that can accelerate the transition of open innovations, towards the development of Open Innovation Test Beds (OITBs) for testing and upscaling standard and pioneering envelope solutions. The MEZeroE ecosystem brings together different testbeds and in this manuscript, one OITB, the BEE Lab experimental facilities, is presented and validated by first functioning and results analysis. In that context, the paper has a twofold objective. Firstly, it elaborates on the design and development of a novel Living Lab (LL) space for the performance assessment in real conditions of full-scale multilayer envelope solutions and secondly, it discusses the results of an applied thermo-hygrometric experimental analysis to confirm that the test bed works as intended. Aside from the experimental results, what makes the approach innovative is the creation of a network of OITBs across Europe and the definition of a unique online network to accelerate the building decarbonization.
