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With the goal of decarbonizing the built environment, IES’s virtual dual generation is helping iconic buildings reach their zero-carbon goals.
List the main causes of carbon emissions and possibly don’t think about the buildings around you. However, the built environment is to blame for about 40% of global CO2 emissions.
Since buildings are an integral component of life, Don McLean, CEO and founder of IES, says this is a challenge we want to meet, quickly.
“As a company, we seek to see how we can mitigate the effect of climate change. We have developed the generation that allows other people to create virtual twins of high-precision buildings.
A virtual dual is a 3D virtual style that reproduces the behavior of a construction in the real world. IES generation can be deployed on individual or complete construction equipment, allowing users to virtually control and control the influence of other carbons. methods of relief and decisions of relief of threats. Ruth Kerrigan, IES COO, explains how generation works in more detail:
“IES’s virtual dual generation uses software on physics and real-world building data, as well as device learning and synthetic intelligence. Together, they create a 3D reproduction of the construction to see how it works in real time and how to optimize performance. “
A notable example is the virtual dual created through IES for the entire Campus of the University of Glasgow. This encompasses buildings, energy and heat networks, and renewable resources and assets, such as electric and photovoltaic vehicle charging stations, across campus.
Gillian Brown, director of energy at the University of Glasgow, says the establishment is one of the first to call for a climate emergency:
“Our main goal is network 0 until 2030. With the IES virtual twins, we take data from the detection problems of our system buildings that have never been incorporated before and put them in one place. We can make adjustments by knowing what, when and how power is consumed. Students look to the establishments to be green and respect the fact that we are offering solutions. »
Fiona Bradley, Professor of Structural Engineering Design at the University of Glasgow, says student framework engagement has proven to be a wonderful way to interact with the network and see the effects come to life:
“Master’s fellows played a vital role in the project, taking very fundamental compliance models to deliver 8 buildings to a much more detailed research point and generating scenarios to show what we can do to reduce energy consumption. IES brings to our research aspects such as thermal comfort, temperatures, energy consumption and air quality. There is a wide diversity of other parameters that scholars examine.
Beyond the university, COP26’s host venue, the Scottish Event Campus (SEC), includes some of the country’s most iconic and complex buildings, and has the ambition to become one of the world’s leading exhibition centres. Tunde Olaoye, Sector Director – Intelligent Energy Systems at SSE, says that to achieve this they want to be carbon neutral:
“We need to conduct a feasibility study to identify features on how we can decarbonize other event spaces and create a built-in energy network, which only helps them organize very smart events, but also ensures that we use the most effective tactics to generate heat. , the electrical energy and lighting of this space.
In the months leading up to COP26, IES supported SSE by creating a virtual double on the Scottish Event Campus.
Tunde Olaoye says it worked because real-world knowledge highlights functionality gaps:
“Digital twins are critical because we want to see how those existing buildings fail compared to their original designs in order to address waste. For SSE, this is a must-have component of a strategic component partnership with HEIs, as we wish to refine our ability to create those virtual twins and wise cities, wise campuses, and wise places.
Although it originated in Scotland, the generation is used all over the world, with IES’s work with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, being notable to respond to its decarbonisation campaign. Don McLean says the effects have been impressive:
“We looked at 21 buildings in the NTU and prepared a decarbonisation roadmap to see what they can achieve over a 10-year period. We knew a saving of 31%, which provides a double benefit: not only decarbonize, but also reduce their energy costs, which they can reinvest in the university.
Don McLean says IES is in talks lately with Fortune 500 corporations to see what progress can be made.
“IES’s long term is to stick to the project we have: to supply the equipment that other people can use to make the built environment energy efficient. “
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