How EU collaborations and research can benefit Scottish
How EU collaborations and research can benefit Scottish companies: the example of IES Dr. Valeria Ferrando Head of EU research Integrated Environmental Solutions
Outline 1. About IES – who we are and our vision 2. How EU research helped us growing and achieving our vision 3. Examples and success cases 4. Resulting Benefits – why we believe it’s worth continuing
About IES • SME, 170 staff, headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland with Offices in Ireland, US, India, Australia, Canada, Singapore • world leader in integrated performance 3 D analysis software • Selected global users: AECOM, ARUP, ATKINS, Daikin, Mott Mac. Donald, Ramboll • expanding from use on buildings to creating sustainable intelligent communities, cities and countries • Ongoing commitment to R&D >35% of annual expenditure
R&D goals and track record • Help shape Communities with better monitoring and intelligent control over the way natural resources are utilised • Achieve synergy through more informed district and city development decision making IES decided to start with funded research to • support and facilitate the achievement of these goals • speed up developments that are already in the plans • help assessing the feasibility of brakethrough innovations
IES EU R&D track record • • • 3 FP 7 projects successfully coordinated and brought to completion 1 Marie Curie IAPP coordinated and ongoing 2 H 2020 projects coordinated and ongoing 8 FP 7 projects where we partnered, now completed 3 H 2020 projects where we are partner, ongoing 1 Marie Curie ITN where we partner Coordinator Partner EU FP 7 Completed On-Going 3 0 8 1 EU H 2020 Completed On-Going 0 2 0 3 These projects have helped advance IES’s existing commercial offering, create new offerings and increasing the growth and revenue for the company EU Marie Curie Completed On-Going 0 1
IES VISION AND STRATEGY • One analysis platform • Designed for all the different stakeholders • Integrated Collaboration • Used throughout design and operation
IES vision- the ICL Utility integration IES ICL is a single analysis platform to help create, plan, evaluate and manage resource efficient, Resilient, low carbon emissions, sustainable, healthy communities
R&D helped to shape the ICL Portfolio/ Community Information Model FP 7 i. Urban IUK CEDISON Intelligent Operation and Utility Integration IDM: Intelligent Data Model Scottish Enterprise City. SUMS TSB MIRIAM GLASGOW FUTURE CITIES H 2020 ENTRUST Masterplan and Urban Design FP 7 INDICATE FP 7 FASUDIR FP 7 CI-NERGY H 2020 IMPRESS Scottish Enterprise: SCAN TSB THERM CIP VERYSCHOOL FP 7 Energy in Time FP 7 REEMAIN FP 7 EINSTEIN H 2020 STREAM-OD Building Operation & Intelligent Control New Design and Retrofit IMPACT AND HONE TSB OPTIMISE TSB IMPACT FP 7 UMBRELLA & EASEE H 2020 4 Rin. EU H 2020 New. TREND
Building energy efficient retrofit -UMBRELLA • Enables total cost plus ROI and payback calculations on simulations selected • KPIs for energy consumption and carbon savings • First European Project written and coordinated by IES • The functionalities developed in UMBRELLA are now part of IES commercial offering (HONE tool)
A Virtual Resource Network- i. URBAN Different utility object i. e. other ESB substation in Dundalk. Different electricity network outside DKIT campus e. g. town centre, commercial zone, etc. It is identified there is no renewable generation embedded at building level on DKIT Campus. Created a completely new technology to support the modeling of energy and resource networks at urban scale, interact with utilities and design microgrids Wind Turbine (blue) Electrical Storage (red) Total Site Demand (brown)
Masterplanning tools- INDICATE • First prototype of masterplanning tool, collaboration with ESRI, a key player in the market of urban scale tools (City. Engine software)
Main benefits for the company Development of New Tools Long Term Collaboration Entry into New Markets New Knowledge Step Forward for Dynamic Simulation Modelling Confidence to Enter New Markets
For example… EXPLORE A NEW MARKET FP 7 project REEMAIN- see how IES technology, usually applied to the built environment could be applied to manufacturing, working with demo factories in Spain, Turkey and Italy IMPROVE AND EXTEND THE CURRENT OFFERING FP 7 project i. URBAN- see how IES simulation capabilities can be applied to analyse, manage, plan and optimise resource networks across a city This led to the development of a tool which is currently exploited in consultancy projects GETTING NEW SKILLS Marie Curie ITN Ci. NERGY- use machine learning algorithms to predict the energy use across similar buildings in a city IES sponsored a Ph. D on this topic, hopefully staying in IES afterwards
Why we should continue internation alization of Scottish companies Creates commercial networks Helps explore new markets EU collaborative research Supports Scottish companies in innovating Helps consolidate market position Allows to get new skills, exchange knowledge
Thank you Dr. Valeria Ferrando valeria. ferrando@iesve. com
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