Innovation Is As Easy As ABC

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre is hosting a visit to the Active Building Centre in Swansea on 17-18 September.

The ABC is an independent national centre funded through the Transforming Construction Industrial Challenge which aims to revolutionise the way the UK designs, constructs and operates buildings, by realising the potential for the integration of innovative renewable and storage technologies with state-of-the-art digital design. 

Working with academic and industrial partners, ABC helps create Active Buildings, which can produce and store enough renewable energy to meet their own needs or more.  Their aim is to deliver a pipeline and prove the case for these innovative Active Buildings, which are more sustainable, perform better, are comfortable, and could significantly contribute to UK decarbonisation.

CSIC is working in Scotland to assist the Active Building Centre deliver its programme.  It is hoped through the visit that CSIC can support the Active Building Centre find and develop new demonstrator buildings across Scotland.  ABC provides support to construction clients, developers and other organisations from the early stages of the design process.   They are interested in projects including aspects of the following:

• Modern methods of construction
• Integrated renewable energy generation and storage technologies
• Data based approach to building monitoring and control
• Use of electric vehicles such as cars, bicycles and buses

Itinerary

Tuesday 17 September

• Late afternoon flights (Flybe) from Edinburgh (17h00) or Glasgow (18h05) to Bristol
• Group dinner

Wednesday 18 September

• Active Building Centre - https://www.activebuildingcentre.com/
  • Overview of Active Building Centre Programme
  • Tour of Active Buildings at ABC base
  • Workshop to look at ‘Active’ as it applies across range of building typologies, and fleshing out partnership opportunities – include current ABC partners
• Visit to Active Homes Neath (16 social homes, inhabited at that point, as of start of Sept)
• Visit to ABC technology partner; TBC, but potentially Tata Steel, Rockwool, BIPVCo, other

Cost

There is no funding subsidy available to cover this trip so all expenses, excluding the group dinner, will be the responsibility of the participating organisation.

Please indicate your interest in attending by emailing Sarah Buchanan sbuchanan@cs-ic.org by Monday 19 August.