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Terje Jacobsen Arild Gustavsen
Vice President, Research SINTEF, Professor, NTNU,
Industrial Liason, ZEB ZEB Centre Director

Future Prospects

The ZEB Centre has placed research, industry, and public partners in
a position where everyone is able to design and build zero emission

buildings, and has created laboratories and tools for the development
of new zero emission building concepts and neighbourhoods.

ZEN Centre - A new Research Centre on Zero ZEB Living Laboratory is where humans meet technology.
Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities The ZEB Living Laboratory is a multipurpose experimental
facility used for investigating how different users influence
The ZEN Centre consortium received funding for a new Centre energy use and how they use new technologies. The ZEB Living
for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) in 2016. Lab is a residential zero emission building and one of the ZEB
The consortium consists of 34 partners, several from the ZEB centre's pilot buildings.
Centre, but also including a significant number of new partners. ZEB Test Cell Laboratory is designed for testing energy
The ZEN Centre will facilitate the transition to a low carbon efficient, integrated building systems under realistic operational
society by developing sustainable neighbourhoods with zero conditions. The Test Cell is a development facility where
greenhouse gas emissions. The ZEN Centre will speed up the different elements of building materials, building envelopes,
decarbonisation of the building stock (existing and new), use energy installations, and control systems may be developed and
more renewable energy sources, and create positive synergies optimized together.
among the building stock, energy, ICT and mobility systems, Advanced Materials and Component Laboratories
and citizens. are used for development and research on building materials,
building envelope components, smart facades, technologies for
ZEB Laboratories Continue to Play a Central Role energy supply, and building services systems such as ventilation
systems.
Norwegian Zero Emission Building Laboratory – ZEB
Flexible Lab New Projects
The Norwegian building industry stresses that a facility for
research on zero emission buildings is a necessary tool for In addition to the ZEB and ZEN Centre activities, new projects on
implementing full-scale zero emission buildings and for the complementary topics such as smart facades, natural ventilation,
development of technologies necessary for such buildings, also and the upgrading of historic buildings have received funding.
in the context of a neighbourhood. Risk reduction during the Applications for new projects from the Research Council of
development and testing of new technologies is an important Norway and EU will also be prepared. NTNU will hire a project
aspect; in addition, the ability to investigate integrated building developer for the purpose of increasing the number of H2020
technologies in a full-scale building is essential. The full- projects. The new ZEB laboratories are unique facilities in this
scale flexible building will provide research possibilities not respect and have already proven to be useful.
previously possible in Norway or internationally.