Developing High Energy Performance Building Envelope Designs for Growing Centres

Anethum公司和我的研究小组之间提出的合作项目旨在确定 “成长中心”设施的最佳建筑围护结构。这个不断发展的中心的总体目标是 提高作物数量和质量，提高资源利用效率，降低作物天气风险， 支持安全、可靠、经济的技术。该中心的围护结构设计可以 显著影响室内条件，从而影响农业生产性能。 该项目将重点评估设计参数的影响，如建筑围护结构组成， 技术融合，综合考虑室内条件和整体规模。 拟议的合作是Anethum公司和我的集团之间的一种新关系。专业知识 我的研究小组在高性能建筑围护结构的设计和分析方面将协助Anathum 该公司致力于为其作物种植中心寻找最佳围护系统设计的解决方案。 这种合作是互惠互利的，因为我的团队对制定设计指南感兴趣 优化建筑围护结构，以实现理想的室内作物生长条件，同时平衡 能源效率和能源生产。 这项研究将为Anethum公司提供最佳表现的创新建议 信封和技术的最佳组合，以改善生长条件。此外，这一点 研究可以潜在地为加拿大工业提供竞争优势，以开发优化的多尺度 用于室内农业的信封系统，既可在加拿大使用，也可出口到其他国家。

The proposed collaboration project between Anethum Corporation and my research group aims at determining an optimal building envelope for a "Growing Centre" facility. The overall objective of this Growing Centre is to increase crop quantity and quality, to increase resource efficiency, to reduce crop weather risks, and to support secure, reliable, and economical technology. The building envelope design of this centre can significantly affect the indoor conditions, and therefore the agricultural performance. The project will focus on estimating the effect of design parameters such as the building envelope composition, technology integration, and the overall scale on the indoor conditions. The proposed collaboration is a new relationship between Anethum Corporation and my group. The expertise of my research group in the design and analysis of high performance building envelope will assist Anathum Corporation in finding solutions regarding optimal envelope system design for their crop Growing Centres. This collaboration is mutually beneficial, as my group is interested in developing guidelines for design of optimal building envelopes to achieve ideal indoor conditions for crop-growing while balancing between energy efficiency and energy generation. This research will provide Anethum Corporation with recommendations on best performing innovative envelopes, and the optimal combination of technologies to improve growing conditions. Moreover, this research can potentially provide a competitive edge to Canadian industry to develop optimized multi-scale envelope systems, for indoor agriculture that can be used in Canada as well as exported to other countries.