Drive 0
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The Drive 0 is a four-year, EU H2020-funded research project that supports the exploration & demonstration of #MMC, #housing #retrofit, enhanced #circularity & the potential for #digitaltransformation support the #EU #RenovationWave. It will conclude in December 2023. Despite the difficulties that Lockdown imposed, the project has been very successful with specific and valuable real-world outcomes.
Key resources:
- The Drive 0 website.
- A SABE news item from May 2023 promoting the national conference held in Athlone, near the demonstrator project site.
- New: Listen to Patrick Daly, SABE lecturer and researcher as well as principal investigator (PI) in Drive 0, present the key learnings from the Irish demonstrator project.
- New: Read Patrick's article on page 109 of Issue 331 of 'Architecture Ireland': Modular Circular in Deep Energy Retrofit.
- New: Read Patrick's research paper in Volume 5 of journal 'e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy': A critical review of circularity - ‘design for disassembly’ assessment methods applied in the development of modular construction panels - an Irish case study.
Well done to the #TU Dublin team: Patrick Daly (PI), Paula Gallego Barril, Philippe Lemarchand, Joseph Little (HoD) and Chiara Leva.
Well done to the Irish partners: #TUDublin, #WestmeathCoCo, #CoadyArchitects, #JohnSisk&Son and #VisionBuilt!
The lessons from this demonstration project need to be taken further and amplified.