Tata and LCRI Invest in Research to Generate Energy from Buildings
OREANDA-NEWS. April 1, 2011. Tata Steel unveiled a new centre which will develop and demonstrate ultimate low-carbon, low-energy sustainable construction technologies. The Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) will also highlight the commitment by Tata Steel to designing innovative solutions to the energy challenges facing
The Centre, to be opened by First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones, is the result of a collaboration between the Welsh Assembly Government, the Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI) and Tata Steel.
SBEC, based at Tata Steel’s site at Shotton, Deeside, will be a showcase for sustainable products and used to test and monitor new integrated heating, energy and ventilation systems on the fabric of the building. At SBEC, a team of researchers and technologists will create building facades – the walls and roofs – which will transform the buildings from being energy consumers into energy generators.
SBEC was designed by the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) in partnership with Tata Steel and already incorporates several prototype renewable energy systems that will be tested and monitored as part of the initial work programmes.
Tata Steel’s involvement in the ?6.5 million SBEC project is just the latest in a number of investments in technology with the aim of improving the sustainability both of the steel industry and the industries it services.
In addition, Tata Steel and Dyesol recently announced that they had decided to expand their ?11 million joint photovoltaics development project based at the PV Accelerator Centre at the Tata Steel site at Shotton.
Meanwhile the ?20 million SPECIFIC project at Baglan in South Wales has been set up to study other new coatings for steel and other substrates that can generate power.
Uday Chaturvedi, Chief Technical Officer of Tata Steel in Europe, said: "Buildings are responsible for almost half of the
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