MEH - Building Banter - Collaborative R&D Project

Building Banter – Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings

 

Moixa Energy Holdings is leading a £820k collaborative R&D project co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board under the User-Centric Design for Energy Efficiency in Buildings program.

 

The project consortium is a unique collaboration between Moixa Energy Holdings, Arup, Vitamins Design, Federal Mogul, More Associates and universities including University College London, Dundee University, Leeds University and Southampton University.

The aim is to achieve greater energy efficiency in buildings without high capital spend, through greater engagement with building users, and develop toolkits and consultancy methods that can be rolled out rapidly to large commercial and industrial buildings.

 

Our approach uses innovative software and lightweight technical approaches that can be easily retrofitted into buildings or existing IT solutions. These leverage and exploit existing infrastructure such as CCTV, IT servers, time management systems, phone systems, building management systems to provide highly visual analysis of energy usage, engaging communications and user-centric ‘conversational tools and controls’ to help facilitate greater energy efficiency.

 

The project is scaling up over the summer of 2010 and runs for two years to early 2012. A dedicated project website will be available in the fall of 2010.

 

Various opportunities exist for researchers and specialist resources, part-time and internship roles on the project, with skills including Electronic Hardware and Software Engineering, Behavioural Psychology, Anthropology, Architects, Facilities Management, Energy Efficiency. Specific opportunities will be updated onto the project site, in the meantime if you are interested in opportunities on the project please send a CV/examples of your work to ‘info at moixaenergy.com’ titled ‘Hacking Buildings’.