energy saving

The future energy concept from the German federal government declares that by 2050, the primary energy requirement should be reduced to 80 %. Achieving this goal requires many local implementations. At teaching and research facilities, a large number of rooms and other spaces are used temporarily. That use usually happens over a predetermined period. The observance of the specific usage period of teaching rooms, in particular of internal teaching rooms, was used to design and implement a future-oriented energy concept for a lecture room. The concept was created to show how technical building services could be used. This work describes our concept’s principle, methodology, and implementation. This concept can also be used for energy optimization in other teaching rooms.

The world’s rising energy and raw material costs are a reason for many companies to reduce energy and resource waste in their own production. Based on this plan, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) initiated in 2009 the project EnHiPro. Until May, 2012 the Technische Universität Braunschweig and three other research partners developed a system to make the energy demand of machines tangible by utilizing smart metering strategies. For the analysis and visualization of the energy flows, the c4c Engineering company was brought into the team in order to engineer the EnyFlow app that makes the energy flows and states of machines transparent on an tablet PC.