this page showcases the latest funded projects eERG is or was partner to
H2020 ABC21 Africa-Europe BioClimatic buildings for XXI century, September 2020-June 2023
With the goal of increasing the energy performance, quality of life, and sustainability of buildings in both Europe and Africa, the ABC 21 project set out to identify the best sustainable designs for warm climate zones and unleash their market and research potential.
“Climate disruption and prolonged heat waves are having a direct impact in both Europe and Africa,” says Prof. Lorenzo Pagliano, coordinator of the project for DAStU, Politecnico di Milano. “If we want to ensure continued comfort, all new construction and retrofits must be done in a way that futureproofs the building against the expected climatic changes of the next 50 to 100 years.”
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H2020 FULFILL Fundamental Decarbonisation Through Sufficiency By Lifestyle Changes, October 2021-September 2024
FULFILL is the first project that is fully dedicated to studying lifestyle change towards sufficiency with a systemic approach across micro-, meso- and macro-level.
FULFILL understands the sufficiency principle as creating the social, infrastructural, and regulatory conditions for changing individual and collective lifestyles in a way that reduces energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions to an extent that they remain within planetary boundaries, and simultaneously contributes to societal well-being.
H2020 SATO Self Assessment Towards Optimization of Building Energy, October 2020-September 2024
The SATO project has implemented a cloud based platform that can perform self assessment and optimization of energy consuming devices in a building. This platform will use an artificial intelligence approach combined with 3D BIM based visualisation to provide an accurate vision of the real life energy performance of buildings and appliances.
“SATO make building energy efficiency hardware and software meet,” says Prof. Pagliano of eERG laboratories at DAStU – Politecnico di Milano. “Both the IT platform and the envelope and the domotics methodologies implemented during the project duration are state-of-the-art ways to reduce primary energy demand.”
PNRR MUSA Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action, December 2022-ongoing
MUSA is an innovation ecosystem funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The project consortium has the University of Milan-Bicocca as its first proposer, the Polytechnic University of Milan, Bocconi University, the State University of Milan and many more public and private partners.
MUSA was born in Milan as a response to the challenges that this metropolitan reality faces in the transition towards the three dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. The aim is to start a new model of public-private partnership that can be replicated at national and international level.