RETRO-BET: Testing of RETROfit solutions in a Building Envelope Testbench

Project Description

The proposed RETRO-BET project seeks to address the thermal performance gap of building elements and in turn energy performance gap of buildings through the testing and modelling of building envelope solutions for building retrofits.

The RETRO-BET project aims to measure the thermal performance properties of typical building element assemblies in the Irish construction sector with the state-of-the-art O3BET building envelope test bench. To integrate measured in-situ thermal performance data into building energy models to identify the contribution to energy performance gap and to develop an updated DEAP methodology on modelling the thermal fabric energy losses of a building.