All Projects

greenPLAST-food – Green Plastic Recycling Factory for Food Contact Materials

greenPLAST-food develops energy-efficient recycling processes for PP/PE packaging to produce safe food contact recyclates and is designing a factory concept as a model for future plants.

RENVELOPE – Energy Adaptive Shell

Revolutionizing Building Renovation for a Sustainable Future: Thermal Insulation and Building Services in One Integrated System.

Zukunftshof Rothneusiedl – the focal point of a model climate district

The “Zukunftshof” was built at the end of the 19th century and, following comprehensive renovation, will serve as a link to the new Vienna urban expansion area ‘RothNEUsiedl’ in the south.

IEA IETS Task 21

IEA IETS Task 21 strengthens international collaboration on carbon capture and industrial symbiosis. It compares CCUS strategies, analyses value chains, and supports circular economy approaches in industry.

EMPOWER – Experimental Mass Transfer Photoreactor Optimization within Engineered Research

EMPOWER develops advanced solar photoreactors for hydrogen production from wastewater and CO₂ reduction. By optimising reactor design, the project aims to significantly improve efficiency, resource use and climate impact.

GRISU-EX – Dual use of sprinkler tanks as thermal energy storages

Built once, used twice – this is the slogan of the ACR project GRISU-EX, which investigates how fire-fighting water tanks from sprinkler systems can be integrated into a building’s internal heating and cooling processes as thermal energy storage units.

SaKEM – Renovation solutions for decarbonising the building stock of Austrian KEM municipalities

An initiative for building renovation is important to support the energy transition in KEM municipalities – with solutions and measures for rapid and high-quality renovations.

DATAWiSE – Intelligent and Sustainable Building Management powered by Cross-Sectoral
Lifecycle

DATAWiSE will develop and test building management tools, leveraging cross-sectoral lifecycle data on the basis of an open, secure, interoperable, and scalable framework.

Municipal Heat Planning and Building Renovation Roadmap for Weiz

The project develops a municipal heat plan and a renovation roadmap for public buildings in Weiz, supporting a climate-neutral, affordable and resilient heat supply by 2040.

IEA SHC Task74 – Components for Thermal Energy Storage

International experts collaborate to improve the design of thermal storage components, to better determine the state-of-charge and to optimise the components’ integration in applications.