MEICON
OPS have been an industry partner of the ‘Minimising Energy in Construction’ (MEICON) project from its early stages, with our team supporting researchers from the Universities of Bath and Cambridge.
Recent success in reducing operational energy consumption and the introduction of strict targets for near-zero energy buildings mean that the embodied energy will soon approach 100% of total energy consumption.
MEICON have set out to identify research needs that will enable significant energy savings in the construction industry before 2025.
The team have set out four research objectives:
Establish the feasibility of introducing upper limits on the effect-resistance gap;
Understand how structural behaviour and geometry can be exploited to save energy;
Understand feasible construction protocols that could enable minimal energy structures;
Evaluate the unintended consequences of each feasibility study.
Read more about the MEICON project on its website.
