The Active Building Centre

ABC将是通过转型建筑业挑战获得资金的两个枢纽之一。ABC的目标是：通过认识到先进的异地制造与最先进的数字设计相结合的潜力，彻底改变英国设计、建造和运营建筑的方式。这将包括整合和整合能源生产、储存和释放技术，以创建活跃的建筑，大幅降低建筑的运营成本及其对英国能源基础设施的需求。我们的愿景是使由太阳能供电的具有能源弹性的社区能够与交通和其他建筑共享能源，同时通过克服障碍和开发具有全球潜力的新商业模式实现英国的价值。使命-ABC是全国卓越的中心，将催化智能建筑和能源共享的革命。ABC将把能源、建筑、政府和研究结合在一起，创建一个动态的生态系统，识别障碍，并为扩大和部署活跃的建筑和社区创造解决方案。ABC将证明规模，推动一个行业，并为市场采用创造条件。对此至关重要的是各种建筑类型的集群示范设施和数千座建筑的管道，这些设施正在被一系列聚集在一起的支持公司和组织考虑。我们已经证明，我们可以利用根据汽车制造原理制造的建筑来快速建造设施，这些设施具有从太阳产生热量和电力的立面，并包括储存这种能量(电力和热量)的元素和新材料，直到我们需要它。关键的是，这使建筑物能够在没有任何燃气连接的情况下供电(电力)和供暖。此外，我们的初步演示表明，这些建筑产生的能量比它们使用的要多。我们的“活动教室”在第一个全年产生的能源是所用能源的1.6倍以上，考虑到这一点，闲置电力可以驱动我们的一辆电动汽车行驶26,500英里以上。因此，我们的目标是改变我们认为建筑物是电力消费者的方式，我们越多地建设基础设施，就越能解决入住率和能源脱碳的要求。100万户家庭本质上需要一个大型核电站，然而，采用新的主动概念基本上是同时提供了家庭和发电厂。这一点至关重要，因为我们过渡到电动汽车，这将是一个主要元素，可以从建筑物的过剩电力供应，以及先进的新通信系统，事实是汽车是静止的，在建筑物的近95%的生命周期内，我们有潜力拥有巨大的移动存储储备。建筑业也创造了积极的经济条件。在英国房屋建筑商联合会(UK House Builders Federation)最近的一份报告中，为了勾勒出与活跃住宅相关的机遇，增加住宅建设的经济理由令人信服。每增加1万个单位，将支持4.3万个就业岗位，增加13.6亿GB的经济产出，导致1.2亿GB的税收回收，4320万GB的地方基础设施建设，以及3.2亿GB的地方经济支出增加。1万户活跃家庭还将增加约50兆瓦的可再生能源容量，包括通过电动汽车、热力存储和内部电池进行存储。显然，这只是故事的一部分，因为作为ABC交付计划的一部分，非住宅建筑也将带来巨大的价值，这些建筑将展示给教育、工厂和商业地产，在许多情况下，这些建筑可以为更传统建筑的现有社区形成能源枢纽。

The ABC will be one of two hubs funded through the Transforming Construction Industrial Challenge. ABC aims to: 'revolutionise the way the UK designs, constructs and operates buildings by realising the potential for the integration of advanced offsite manufacturing with state of the art digital design. This will include the incorporation and integration of energy generation, storage, and release technologies to create Active Buildings which substantially reduce both the operational costs of buildings and their demand on the UK energy infrastructure'.Our Vision is to enable energy resilient communities that are powered by the sun, share energy with transport and other buildings, whilst realising value for the UK by overcoming barriers and developing new business models with global potential.The Mission - ABC is a national centre of excellence and will catalyse a revolution in smart buildings and energy sharing. ABC will bring together energy, construction, government and research to create a dynamic ecosystem that identifies barriers and creates solutions for scale up and deployment of buildings and communities that are Active. ABC will prove scale, enable an industry and create the conditions for market adoption. Critical to this will be clustered demonstration facilities on a variety of building typologies and pipeline of several thousand buildings which are being considered by a diverse array of assembled supporting companies and organisations.We have already demonstrated that we can use buildings that are manufactured using the principles of car making to rapidly construct facilities that have facades that generate heat and electricity from the sun and include elements and new materials that store this energy (both electricity and heat) until we need it. Critically this enables buildings to be powered (electrically) and heated without any gas connection. In addition, our initial demonstrations have shown that the buildings can generate allot more energy than they use. Our 'Active Classroom' has generated over 1.6 times the energy used in its first full year and putting that in perspective the spare power would have driven one of our EVs for over 26,500 miles. Our aim then is to transform the way we think of buildings as consumers of power and requiring more infrastructure the more we build to a solution both to the requirements of occupancy and energy decarbonisation. One million homes would in essence require one large nuclear powerplant, however adoption of the new Active concept essentially delivers the homes and the powerplant at the same time. This is vitally important as we transition to electric cars which will be a major element of where excess power from buildings can be fed and with advanced new communication systems the fact that a car is stationary and by a building for almost 95% of its life we have potential for a huge mobile storage reserve. Construction also creates positive economic conditions. To frame the opportunity in relation to Active Homes, in a recent report by the UK Housebuilders Federation, the economic case for increasing home building is compelling. Each additional 10,000 units would support 43,000 jobs, increase economic output by £1.36bn, lead to £120m in tax recovery, £43.2m in local infrastructure and an increase in local economic spending by £320m. 10,000 Active homes would also add renewable energy capacity of ca 50MW including storage via EVs, thermal stores and internal batteries. Clearly this is only part of the story since there will also be tremendous value from non-residential buildings that will be showcased for education, factory and commercial properties as part of the delivery programme for ABC and these in many cases can form energy hubs for existing communities of more traditional buildings.