The Active Building Centre

ABC将是通过转型建筑工业挑战资助的两个中心之一。ABC旨在：“通过实现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。这将包括纳入和整合能源生产，存储和释放技术，以创建Active Buildings，大幅降低建筑物的运营成本及其对英国能源基础设施的需求。我们的愿景是使能源弹性社区能够由太阳能供电，与交通和其他建筑物共享能源，同时通过克服障碍和开发具有全球潜力的新商业模式为英国实现价值。使命- ABC是一个国家级的卓越中心，将催化智能建筑和能源共享的革命。ABC将汇集能源，建筑，政府和研究，以创建一个动态的生态系统，识别障碍，并为活跃的建筑和社区的规模和部署创造解决方案。ABC将证明规模，使一个行业，并创造市场采用的条件。其中关键的一点是在各种建筑类型和数千栋建筑的管道上聚集示范设施，这些建筑正在被各种各样的组装支持公司和组织考虑。我们已经证明，我们可以使用根据汽车制造原理制造的建筑物来快速建造具有从太阳产生热量和电力的立面的设施，并包括元素新的材料可以储存这些能量（包括电和热），直到我们需要它。关键是，这使得建筑物能够在没有任何气体连接的情况下（电力）供电和加热。此外，我们最初的演示表明，这些建筑物可以产生比它们使用的更多的能量。我们的“Active Classroom”在第一个完整的一年中产生了超过1.6倍的能量，从这个角度来看，备用电源可以驱动我们的电动汽车行驶超过26，500英里。因此，我们的目标是改变我们将建筑物视为电力消费者的方式，并要求更多的基础设施，我们建造的解决方案既要满足入住率要求，又要满足能源脱碳要求。100万个家庭实际上需要一个大型核电站，但采用新的主动概念基本上同时提供家庭和发电厂。这是至关重要的，因为我们过渡到电动汽车，这将是一个主要因素，其中多余的电力从建筑物可以美联储和先进的新的通信系统的事实，一辆汽车是固定的，由一个建筑物近95%的生活，我们有潜力为一个巨大的移动的存储储备。建设也创造了积极的经济条件。在英国房屋建筑商联合会最近的一份报告中，为了确定与活跃房屋有关的机会，增加房屋建设的经济理由是令人信服的。每增加1万个单位将支持4.3万个就业岗位，增加13.6亿英镑的经济产出，带来1.2亿英镑的税收回收，4320万英镑的地方基础设施和3.2亿英镑的地方经济支出增加。10，000个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，非住宅建筑也将为教育，工厂和商业物业展示巨大的价值，在许多情况下，这些建筑可以为现有的传统建筑社区形成能源中心。

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.