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buildings. Steinar Grynning defended his PhD people will live in the ZEB Living Laboratory for a new FME, the FME Centre on Zero
thesis in 2015, and the topic was “Transparent for 25 days each, and the experiments will Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities.
facades in low energy ofice buildings. continue until April 2016. It is still too early This is a ield where we see the next logical
Numerical simulations and experimental to conclude on the outcome. In addition, a step for the development of a sustainable
studies”. lot of work has gone into the planning and built environment. Even if the ZEB Centre
evaluation of the completed demonstration has proven that zero emission buildings can
To verify the indoor climate a questionnaire projects both on design and construction be built, a lot of work still remains to improve
survey in pilot building Powerhouse processes and for end-users. A number of the environmental performance of the built
Kjørbo has been done, and indoor climate reports and articles will be published in 2016. environment as a whole. The vision of the new
measurements have been started. The With regard to WP4’s activities on energy centre will be: Sustainable neighbourhoods
results indicate satisfactory indoor air quality, eficient use and operation, one of the most with zero greenhouse gas emissions. The
although the displacement ventilation does important outcomes was the large number of Centre aims to speed up decarbonisation of
not succeed in distributing air equally well to guided tours and media interviews conducted the building stock (existing and new), use
all parts of the ofice landscape. Models for about the Living Lab. This provided ample more renewable energy sources, and create
heat and air distribution through doorways opportunity to involve the public in ZEB Centre positive synergies between the building
have been tested by full scale measurements research. stock, energy, ICT and mobility systems,
both in laboratory and ield. These models and citizens. The Centre will work with new
are useful for correct simulation of simpliied Continuing the development of state-of-the-art and existing neighbourhoods in cities and
heating and ventilation systems where the laboratories has been an important activity communities with different building typologies,
heat source is placed centrally in the lat for the ZEB Centre. The ZEB Test Cells infrastructures, mobility, and users. The new
or in the corridor if it is an ofice or school Laboratory and the ZEB Living Laboratory centre will deliver added value for Norwegian
building. A new type of a static heat recovery were completed in 2015 and are described in and international society through it’s new,
exchanger for ventilation air is under more detail later in this report. Furthermore, strategic cooperation between the building
development. Static exchangers eliminate The Research Council of Norway decided to and energy sectors and will advance the state
the air leakages from used to fresh air. This fund the development and construction of a of the art in areas needed to accelerate the
new exchanger type uses a membrane for ZEB Flexible Laboratory. This facility will be an transition to a low carbon society The duration
heat and mass transfer that reduce problems 1800 m living laboratory facility for testing of of the centre, if funded, will be 2016 to 2023.
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with frosting. Laboratory measurements on full-scale integrated systems for zero emission In addition, the ZEB Centre Board has initiated
a prototype have proven that it works well; commercial and public buildings in a Nordic a discussion about the future form of the ZEB
effectiveness is higher than expected, but the climate. This laboratory is also described Centre and how it may continue its work.
pressure drop with the chosen coniguration elsewhere in this report.
is somewhat too high and need further The ZEB Centre research period might soon
development. We have now entered 2016, which is the be over (as an FME, funded by the Research
inal full year where the ZEB Centre has FME Council of Norway), but the results, including
With the completion of the ZEB Living status (Forskningssentre for miljøvennlig research results, materials, products and real
Laboratory, a unique tool for analysis of energy – Centres for Environment-friendly full scale buildings, will forever be available as
user-technology-interaction in residential Energy Research), appointed by the Research visible functioning proof of the zero emission
buildings has become available. Experiments Council of Norway. An important activity in the building concept. Research and development
started in the autumn 2015. Six groups of second half of 2015 was therefore applying activities will continue.

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