InCUBE Site Trento

InCUBE will mainly focus on the deep renovation of the Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara, owned by the Municipality of Trento and one of the most important centres for cultural and recreational activities of the city. This building was built in 1235 (as the Monastery of S.Chiara) and has around 200 users. The energy needs of the building will be reduced by half and the renewable energy production will be increased to 864 MWh per year (photovoltaic and geothermal). Besides this specific building, other five public owned buildings will be deeply renovated for tertiary uses and residential spaces to enhance the district-level approach favouring the emergence of a Renewable Energy Community. 

INTERVENTIONS:

InCUBE will strengthen and extend these existing initiatives through several innovative interventions at a building and neighbourhood level: 

• Decreasing building energy consumption by using bio-based insulation material, thermal break windows, and LED lighting
• Increasing building renewable energy production using Building Integrated Photovoltaic Shingles and heat pumps
• Maximizing self-consumption using thermal energy storage and lithium batteries
• Maximizing renewable energy production at a neighbourhood level using a low-temperature geothermal/solar district heating/cooling network
• Supporting clean mobility with new Electric Vehicle charging stations
• Circular economy, utilisation and management of waste streams
• Decarbonising the deep renovation value chain using environmental and energy monitoring systems at building and district level
• Increasing building surveying, inspection and monitoring using drones and 3D scanning