Sustainable Development

Project Title	Brief Outline	Time Frame	Related School	Researchers	Partners	TU Dublin Role	Call/Funders
ARISE Horizon 2020	Developing just in time training and pan-European certification for personal training record using blockchain	2022-2024	Surveying & Construction Innovation	Dr. Barry McAuley and Ryan Dempsey	--	Lead Supervisor/PI	Horizon 2020
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
Improve Timber Frame Housing through Innovative use of Materials that are Circular & Zero Carbon (TIMBER MAT-CIRC)	The TIMBER MAT-CIRC feasibility study will explore a range of ways of improving the specification and fabrication of timber frame buildings through innovative use of circular, zero carbon materials, with particular focus on insulants.	Sept 2022 - Sept 2025	Architecture, Building & Environment	Joseph Little (PI), Patrick Daly, Liam Donohue (w. inputs from Sameer Mehra, Alan O'Donnell & Niall Holmes)	IJM Timber Frame, Cygnum Timber Frame	Lead	Enterprise Ireland IPP
SCSI - Industry Report	Sustainable Development in the Surveying Profession	2022	School of Surveying & Construction Innovation	Dr. Roisin Murphy		PI	SCSI
Kanji	Self-Assembly Chair Design	2020 - 2022	SABE	Marcin Wojcik	Parenthesis Research Ltd.	Providing Prototyping and Testing facilities and iterative design development	Enterprise Ireland
HyShed	Demountable Research Building (HybridLab)	2024	SABE	Marcin Wojcik
Roof Station	Modular Sustainable Energy Retrofit	2024	SABE	With Innovation Office - Team Assembly	Parenthesis Research Ltd.	Access to innovative ecosystem and team members
Assessment of coastal evolution and vulnerability along County Wicklow shorelines	The main aim of the proposal is to provide a research platform for industry-academia collaboration resulting with the development and testing of a coastal vulnerability mapping Webtool to support coastal zone management of poorly studied, yet environmentally and commercially important shorelines along the County Wicklow.	January 2022 - September 2024	School of Surveying and Construction Innovation	Sojan Mathew - PI of SFI RD&I Funding	Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) Ltd	PI	SFI RD&I 2021