InCUBE

InCUBE brings together 23 high-profile partners and two affiliated entities from 7 European countries, envisioning to unlock the EU renovation wave through cutting-edge standardized, lean integrated processes based on 4 key pillars of innovation:

1) Industrialization: Off-site manufactured solutions including the use of robots (e.g., demolition, telescopic cranes, drilling and waste sorting), so far applied only in industrial environments, offering novel services (e.g., anti-collision, area boundary, waste tracking);

2) Novel self-RES power producing and storage technologies, products and environmentally friendly materials (e.g. low GWP-refrigerant heat pumps);

3) Digitalization: Dynamic Digital Twins of both products and buildings, utilizing immersive capturing techniques (e.g., Laser 3D scanners and Drones), digitally merging innovative manufacturing processes with BIMs, and;

4) New market entrants, organized under novel business models, to allow for increased levels of collaboration and productivity.

The InCUBE Suite, integrates digital tools across all 4 pillars, enables for seamless coordination of different renovation phases while leveraging data streaming from multiple interoperable sources to accommodate tenants’ comfort and render buildings active energy nodes in the synergetic energy networks paradigm of the future.

Solutions will be validated in 3 large-scale demo sites (19,100 m2, >600 residents) in 3 countries (IT, ES, NL), including a cultural heritage building. Key expected outcomes include among others: Reduction of waste streams and time needed on-site by >35%, renovation cost reduction by >30%, reduction of working time with hazardous activities by >50%, energy savings >6GWh/y (78%), GHG reductions >1,980 tCO2eq/y, achieving an energy performance gap between as-built and as-designed <20%, and creation of 2 RECs encompassing >2,000 users; all while accounting for social inclusion, upskilling and enhancement of women’s role in the construction industry. 

THE ROLE OF FBK

FBK is focused on ensuring the smooth and timely implementation of the activities to be performed in the demos and a dedicated site manager at each demo site will be responsible for the preparatory activities and the execution of works. An implementation roadmap time plan (unique to the specific requirements of each country) will be developed early in the project to identify all the external actors involved and critical steps (e.g., definition of authorizations, licensing for light/heavy works, contact relevant authorities, preparation of tenders) that need to be integrated in the project implementation in order to obtain all necessary clearances required on-time. 

FBK encloses all implementation activities foreseen for Trento and follows the planning defined. FBK supervises the Trento demo’s quite diversified set of technologies (both at building and district level), aligned with the requirements that a cultural heritage building imposes towards achieving nZEB efficiency levels and REC synergies. FBK also supervises the physical installation of the InCUBE Suite at the pilot site (e.g., software, supporting hardware, communication networks, interface with existing sensors) to implement the concepts and solutions developed in other WP in order to assess, validate and evaluate their actual performance.