Location
Description
BIPED is focusing on the Gellerup neighbourhood of the Brabrand district in Aarhus. The ambition is to achieve climate neutrality and make Gellerup energy-positive in the next few years, and then scale the results to other parts of the city and beyond. The main target areas for intervention are building stock renovations, renewables and electric mobility.
Brabrand is a district of Aarhus municipality, located 6 km west of the city centre. Brabrand is a diverse district with 20,000 inhabitants, a broad mix of different building stock and business types. Located in the district's east is Gellerup, a modernist suburban residential neighbourhood. Built in the 1960s, Gellerup consists primarily of public and social housing estates in the form of multi-story apartment blocks (Gellerupparken) that comprise nearly 74% of all homes in the area.
The areas are undergoing a major transformation as some buildings are being demolished, others remodelled and repurposed, and new ones constructed. In recent years, Gallerup benefited from a new district park, library, sports and cultural venues. There are plans for a new station in Brabrand that is part of an expanded light rail network intersecting the Aarhus metropolitan area.
Demo Site Expected Impact
BIPED demonstrator will be multi-layered, connecting different districts and areas within Aarhus (Brabrand, Gellerup). With the digital twin, different features found in the urban fabric of these areas will be explored holistically (environmentally, socially, economically) to understand their impact on PED development.
The solution will provide a virtual urban space to simulate and model real-time data and scenarios across different spatio-temporal levels, with results feeding into governance arrangements geared towards four policy priorities on a local and national level.
Outcomes:
- Increased number of planning actions for PEDs
- Enhanced data gathering approaches
- Novel data gathering
- Use of data from different urban scales
- Increase number of planning depts using data driven approaches
- Improved Digital Twin performance
Wider Impact Mission - climate neutral smart cities:
- Enhanced innovation capacity of local/regional administrations for zero emission solutions
- Increased use of transferrable solutions for sustinable mobility of people and goods
- Increased deployment of natural solutions, tackling both climate mitigation and adaptation aspects
- Development and testing a DT of a Positive clean Energy District and improved knowledge
- Increased capacity of EU cities to design and roll out their Climate City Contracts to achieve climate neutrality by 2030
Technologies
Buildings and energy
Digital Twin, Building Models, Urban Data Platform, Sensors.
Mobility & Transport
Digital Twin, Street Furniture Models, Urban Data Platform, Sensors.
ICT
Digital Twin., Data Management Layers, Urban Data Platform, Sensors, City Database, Web Services, Management System, GIS Data.
Positive (clean) energy district
Digital Twin, Urban Data Platform, Sensors.