Buildings & Infrastructure

Project Title	Brief Outline	Time Frame	Related School	Researchers	Partners	TU Dublin Role	Call/Funders
Making building stock energy analysis robust	Using Machine Learning and AI applied to EPC data	2019-2023	Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Ciara Ahern, Kumar Rushan	MaREI/IERC/ Loughborough University	Lead Supervisor/PI	SFI-EPSRC ERBE CDT
Development and cost-optimal scenario analysis of a real-time dwelling energy stock model to inform climate policy decisions	Development and cost-optimal scenario analysis of a real-time dwelling energy stock model to inform climate policy decisions	2022-2026	Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Ciara Ahern, Marie Abigail Pacho	MaREI/IERC/ Loughborough University	Lead Supervisor/PI	SFI-EPSRC ERBE CDT
Next Generation Machine Learning Generated Contemporaneous & Inclusive Residential Stock (Energy) consumption Model to Inform Climate Policy	Development of model for the Irish Housing Stock	2023-2025	Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Ciara Ahern	IERC/Tyndall	PI/Lead Supervisor	SFi
Irish Building Stock Observatory – Communication of Next Generation Robust Machine Learning Generated Housing Stock Model to inform construction industry and climate policy	Building a platform for the Irish Building Stock Observatory	2023	Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Ciara Ahern	IERC/TYndall (sub contractors)	PI	Construct Innovate/EI
PREDICT - PRedicting Energy using Dynamic Indicators in a Calibrated Tool Development of an adaptive in-use factor tool to reduce the energy performance gap in buildings	PREDICT addresses the building energy performance gap through the creation of an adaptive in-use factor (IUF) tool to predict occupied building energy use. Parameters of various defined influence are applied alongside building and energy system information to account for multiple occupancy and in-use cases. This project will use large datasets from SEAI projects to define and validate the IUF based on monitored data, surveys, interviews, and calibrated physics models. The large database, consolidated and added to during the project, will also be made publicly available, to facilitate the expedition of future building stock and energy policy research in Ireland.	2024-2027	Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Ciara Ahern and Dr. Aimee Byrne	University of Galway, IERC/Tyndall, IES RD&D	PI	SEAI RD&D
MOBILISE - Measures to Improve Energy Efficiency and Ensure a Low Carbon Future for Irish Traveller, Direct Provision and Displaced Communities Living in Mobile Homes (MOBILISE).	The MOBILISE proposal, in partnership with Traveller stakeholders and relevant local authorities, will produce a roadmap to energy efficiency improvements for the sector. The roadmap will identify barriers as well as readily deployable solutions to increase the efficiency of mobile homes. The project will further implement a demonstrable process to ensure extensive education and knowledge transfer on relevant energy efficiency approaches to the targeted groups and the wider targeted Irish use cases where mobile dwellings are considered to meet urgent accommodation needs (e.g. use of mobiles for housing displaced individuals and asylum seekers).	2024-2027	Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Ciara Ahern	Atlantic Technological Univeristy/Univerity of Limerick/Sligo County Council/National Traveller Money Advisory and Budgeting Services (NTMABS)	Partner	SEAI RD&D
Climate Change Related Domestic retrofit Overheating Risk Mitigation (CC-DORM)	Enabling technical and other barriers to energy market uptake (retrofit) to be overcome by providing a comprehensive risk assessment tool backed by robust data.	2023-2027	Surveying & Construction Innovation	Dr Mark Mulviille and Dr. Ciara Ahern		Lead and co-lead	SEAI
Drive 0	To make the deep renovation process more attractive, environmentally friendly, faster and cost effective for end-users by combining circularity, product innovation and process innovation; To provide consumers and potential investors of deep renovation projects with attractive and understandable information of real total life-cycle performances (energy use, indoor environment and well-being); To demonstrate circular renovation solutions in combination with local drivers in live study and demonstration cases; To foster new consumer centred business models for circular renovation concepts; To roll out the DRIVE 0 concept on a wider European scale by mobilizing European interest groups and umbrella organizations;	2019-2023	Architecture, Building & Environment	Patrick Daly (PI), Joseph Little, Philippe Lemarchand	DRIVE 0 is structured around seven pilots in seven countries, for each country industrial partners are ‘twinned’ with a technical partner. Irish partners of TU Dubin are Coady Architects with (off-site manufacturers) Vision Built.	Irish demonstrator academic partner	H2020