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COMMUNICATION
EENSULATE project
“Development of innovative façades. EENSULATE represents an the insulation of the transparent
lightweight and highly ambitious project, which aims to component of curtain walls; it is
insulating energy efficient introduce a novel unitized curtain manufactured through an innovative
components and associated wall system capable of meeting the low-temperature process.
enabling materials for cost- market demand. It is expected to
effective retrofitting and new be an affordable (28 % reduction A prototype vacuum glass samples
construction of curtain wall of total refurbishment costs), high have been fabricated using seal
facades.” performance prefabricated façade materials. These included a hot melt
retrofitting solution with reduced type polymer and an epoxy resin.
The EENSULATE project is a research weight and thickness. The objective of Initial trials were conducted on
project funded by the European the project is to bring existing curtain small scale samples to determine
Commission under the Horizon 2020 wall buildings to “nearly zero energy” appropriate application, techniques
programme. It gathers 14 partners standards and reducing energy bills and processing criteria. Consortium
from eight different European by at least 20 % while complying with is currently working on the foam to
countries (AGC Glass Europe, the structural limits of the original improve fire resistance and higher
SAES Getters, Focchi, Universita building structure and national yield. The Single Burning Item (SBI)
Politecnica Delle Marche, Selena, building codes. test for three types of foam will be
Bergamo Tecnologie, Gmina Miejska performed and after the test, the
Dzierzoniow, University College EENSULATE PRODUCTS foam sample with the appropriate
London, University of Ulster, Evonik, The EENSULATE project develops fire resistance will be used for the
Tvitec, UNStudio, and Fenix TNT). The a module that consists of two preliminary industrial samples.
consortium is led by RINA Consulting. main parts. The first one is highly
insulating environmentally friendly DEMONSTRATION
The main aim of the project is to spray foam. It allows for the cost- Four different demo sites will be used
develop an innovative lightweight (35 effective automated manufacturing for validation of results in different
% weight reduction compared to the and insulation of the opaque climatic conditions: Public library
currently best performing modules), components. The curtain walls in Pesaro (Italy), Focchi building
highly insulating energy efficient also enable significant reduction in Rimini (Italy), and two buildings
components. Simultaneously, it of thermal bridges during the in Dzierzonow (Poland) – School
also develops associated enabling installation process. The second building and City museum.
materials for cost-effective retrofitting product is a lightweight and thin
and new construction of curtain wall double pane vacuum glass used for EENSULATE module’s main
components, foam and vacuum glass,
Figure 1: EENSULATE are currently under the definition of
module the final specifications and, in the
next months, the system design
of the EENSULATE module will be
realized. After the system design,
the first full scale prototypes will be
manufactured, and the performances
tests will be conducted to validate
the full system. The focus will be
placed on thermos-acoustic behavior
and indoor comfort. l
Contact information
Project ID: 723868
Website: www.eensulate.eu
Start date: August 2016
Duration: 42 months
Project coordinator:
Daniela Reccardo
Email: daniela.reccardo@rina.org
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
