greenPLAST-food – Green Plastic Recycling Factory for Food Contact Materials
greenPLAST-food is a collaborative flagship project to develop a “Green Plastic Recycling Plant for Food Contact Materials”. The focus is on recycling PP and PE packaging waste into safe, high-quality polyolefin recyclates that meet strict decontamination requirements for food contact and are produced in an energy- and climate-efficient way. Across nine work packages, sorting, decontamination, […]
RENVELOPE – Energy Adaptive Shell
The flagship project RENVELOPE, implemented within the framework of the GreenEnergyLab flagship region, is currently the largest national research and development project in the field of innovative building renovation. In the context of climate neutrality, the construction sector proves to be a key lever for the phase-out of fossil fuels, as it accounts for around […]
Zukunftshof Rothneusiedl – the focal point of a model climate district
The ‘Zukunftshof’, formerly known as ‘Haschahof’, is an area in south-east Vienna that was always used for agriculture and features various farm buildings. The neighbourhood and farm complex was built at the end of the 19th century and will be the future gateway to the new RothNEUsiedl urban expansion area to the south. The farm […]
IEA IETS Task 21
IEA IETS Task 21 is an international research collaboration under the framework of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and addresses key challenges related to the decarbonisation of industry. Its main focus lies on Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) and industrial symbiosis as essential levers to improve energy and resource efficiency and to enable circular […]
EMPOWER – Experimental Mass Transfer Photoreactor Optimization within Engineered Research
The doctoral project EMPOWER focuses on the development of advanced solar photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic reactors for sustainable hydrogen production and CO₂ reduction. The core objective is to optimise a novel solar photoreactor that directly converts solar energy into chemical fuels within a single integrated process step. By addressing current efficiency limitations, the project aims to […]
GRISU-EX – Dual use of sprinkler tanks as thermal energy storages
Sprinkler tanks are safety-critical installations that provide fire-fighting water for numerous types of buildings, including logistics centres, furniture and retail stores, hotels, office buildings, and production facilities. In Austria, around 10,000 systems exist with a total of approximately 6 million m³ of extinguishing water that ideally is never used. However, if this water volume is […]
SaKEM – Renovation solutions for decarbonising the building stock of Austrian KEM municipalities
Current climate and energy policy targets envisage a significant reduction in energy consumption and thus CO2 emissions in Europe’s and Austria’s building stock, which still accounts for around 40% of Europe’s CO2 emissions. A tailor-made renovation process and a catalogue of solutions and measures for rapid and high-quality renovation are important for the complete decarbonisation […]
DATAWiSE – Intelligent and Sustainable Building Management powered by Cross-Sectoral
Lifecycle
DATAWiSE will develop and test building and building portfolio management tools. Utilizing cutting-edge artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, the methodology will integrate data from a variety of sources to provide a holistic understanding of building operations. DATAWiSE will design and implement a scalable data architecture that ensures data quality, privacy, interoperability, and sharing, and a […]
Municipal Heat Planning and Building Renovation Roadmap for Weiz
The project aims to develop an integrated municipal heat plan and a detailed renovation roadmap for public buildings for Weiz. By improving and harmonizing energy-relevant building data, the project establishes a robust spatial data basis for strategic heat planning. The municipal heat plan includes a comprehensive assessment of the building stock, existing heat infrastructure and […]
IEA SHC Task74 – Components for Thermal Energy Storage
The main objective of Task 74 is to bridge the gap between research on storage materials and practical implementation, with the focus on three key pillars: component design and integration, determination of the state-of-charge and application-oriented case studies.These pillars are also the subtasks into which the work is divided. We work on compact thermal energy […]