Architecture, Culture and Tectonics Research Group

Zero Carbon Architecture

The use of coated fabrics and foils in architecture opens new scenarios in the reduction of the environmental impacts of the building sector. ETFE foil building envelopes, when compared with glass, can provide equivalent performance with a low self-weight which allows larger spans with a reduced size and weight of the supporting structure.

Zero Carbon
 

In collaboration with several industrial and academic partners, we are constantly involved in research projects focused on the simulation and optimization of the environmental performance of ETFE building components based on innovative printing techniques and structural connections in order to minimize the embodied energy and the depletion of natural resources.


Projects

Verona Winter Garden – Data Logger to measure the internal environment
 
Data loggers to monitor the performance of buildings
 
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnership – KTP10169 (2015-2016)
 
  • RCS Pavilion Expo 2015
 
  • Lightweight  ETFE Envelopes for buildings - PhD Jan Flor Jan-Frederik
  • Environmental performance of lightweight Buildings - PhD Mariangela Devita

Key contacts

Architecture, Culture and Tectonics

The University of Nottingham
Faculty of Engineering
Nottingham, NG7 2RD


telephone: +44 (0)115 74 86257
email:ACT@nottingham.ac.uk