London

Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIP) have been installed on the London demo site as part of its ReCO2ST Retrofit-Kit.
A design competition was launched in February 2020 by Brunel University, seeking for design proposals that will turn the currently blank VIP surfaces into creative presentations that showcase ReCO2ST’s research. Moreover, this has given the opportunity to highlight the student community’s commitment to reducing energy usage across campus through increased awareness of green impact, recycling, water quality, and biodiversity. The competition ended on 9 March with the selection of the two winning proposals, one by a student from the wider university community and the second by the student residents of the building. The painting event will proceed as soon as the Covid19 restrictions are lifted.

The winning designs for painting the VIPs of London demo building.

Vevey

During the first week of April the case study in Vevey produced more than what the 17 families consumed in the building. 676 kWh, were produced and the building consumed 610 kWh; directly 314 kWh of solar electricity were consumed. 51% of electricity total consumption comes directly from local renewable production, and the other 49% is imported from the grid, completely compensated by the 54% of the produced solar energy that is exported to the grid when there is more production than consumption. For that week, the case study was electricity neutral and yearly speaking it is also expected that production will exceed the building’s consumption.

Cadiz

Since March 9, 2020 the City Council of Cádiz has initiated the second phase of the rehabilitation project for the renovation of the 28 apartment building. The rehabilitated building will have 28 social rental homes: 26 of 2 bedrooms and two 1 bedroom, with an increase in useful area per housing and 2 homes for disabled people with new mobility elevator and staircase nuclei, removing architectural barriers throughout the building and free zones, with extension of door widths, halls, lobby and stairs. The ReCO2ST technologies to be installed are: Cooling Evaporative ventilated Façade, Cool roof paint, Vacuum Insulation Panels, Nature based system for indoor air treatment, Innovative AHU (IAHU), Concentrated PV (CPV)

Frederikshavn

We welcome a new building for the ReCO2ST demonstration in Frederikshavn. The initial demo building suffered from flawed foundation that resulted in its demolition. The new demo building consists of 58 apartments of 1 to 4 rooms and was built in the 1960s.

The ReCO2ST publication list has grown in the last six months! Our publications can be accessed from the Library section of our website: https://reco2st.eu/library

5th Progress Meeting, 16&17 June 2020, Online

The 5th progress meeting of ReCO2ST was held online this time. During two very productive days the consortium came one step closer to finalizing and fine tuning the developed methodologies, tools and business case of ReCO2ST.

5^th ReCO2ST progress meeting, online

Upcoming activities

ReCO2ST will participate in Sustainable Places along with sister projects RenoZEB, HEART and REZBUILD for a joint workshop on to discuss the innovative solutions they are developing and how they contribute to the Green New Deal and the renovation wave

Save the date: Sustainable Places Conference, October 27-30 2020, Digital Event

Three new blog post are now avialable. Click the following link to read them : Blog