Working with

SPECIFIC

Dr Christian Bryant

Research Commercialisation & Industry Engagement Manager

Buildings as Power Stations

5th October 2016

A National Innovation & Knowledge Centre

• 150+ People

• State of the art Laboratories - £450M Bay Campus

• 50+ Partners (Research and Industry)

• A pipeline of technology to be commercialisedby

industry

• Functional coatings on glass and steel

• Systems integration and demonstration at buildings

scale

• Unique facilities to scale up (PMRC) & demonstrate

(SHED) technologies

• Bringing together construction and energy fora

distributed energy system

Transforming Buildings into Power Stations that Generate, Store & Release Energy at Point of Use

@ BBIC

@ PMRC

@ SAIC

@ SHED

Building Integration of Solar Thermal and Heat Storage in conjunction with PV and electrical storage

‘Research Led – Industry Inspired’

Photovoltaics

Building Scale Aqueous Batteries

Solar Thermal Collection and Storage

System Integration and Building Demonstration

Why do we work with Industry

(ii)

Aim to create new business opportunities

(i) integrate developments into providing local energy storage and distribution solutions

integrate developments into whole building (system)demonstrators and applications

• Proof of Concept Development & Scale-Up

• Building Demonstration and System Integration

Building integrated PV

Diurnal Storage

H-RAF System

Inter-seasonal Storage Water purification coatingSPECIFIC’s Active Classroom

‘A National IKC will deliver impact by enhancing wealth generation of the businesses with which they work’

Delivery of economic growth by collaboration with others

Investigating and developing new disruptive technologies

What do we offer?

SKILLS / EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT

• Industry Training (MeTAL)• MaterialsAcademy• PublicEngagement

SPECIFIC

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

• Applied R&D (PV, Storage, Release)• Centre for Doctoral Training• MRes & PhD• Proof of Concept

SCALE-UP

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT/ INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT

• Research Commercialisation• Collaborative R&D• Knowledge / Technology Transfer• Developing Supply Chains• Partner / Business Models• Developing Commercialisation

routes for opportunities• Economic Development @

SPECIFIC• Developing Value

Propositions

• Scale-up of R&D @ PMRC• Trialling Pre-Commercial Opportunities

BUILDING INTEGRATION (BUILDINGS AS POWERSTATIONS)

• Systems Integration• Pilot Installations• Modelling (Building Physics)• Demonstrators• Roll out and adoption (with partners)

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

SMEs

KTNs

INNOVATE UK EPSRCWELSHGOVERNMENT

DECC

H 2020

BRE

PARTNERS

MARKETS

Advice

Training (WBL through to EngD)

Analysis & Testing

Collaborative R&D

TechnologyTransfer

Proof of Concept

Scale Up

Demonstrators

……….

Building

Demonstrator Programme

(Roll out and adoption with

partners)

Our Innovation Pipeline

Building Demonstrator Programme

Buildings being self-sufficient by generating, storing and releasing their own electrical energy

This approach is also capable of time shifting energy through storage

‘Concept to Commercialisation’

‘Full innovation spectrum’

• Applied R&D

• Proof of Concept

• Scale-up

• Building Demonstrator

Ways of Working with Us

• Strategic - LongTerm

• Project- based

Many ‘funding vehicles’ for collaborationopportunities

UK e.g. Innovate UK

(Energy Catalyst, Collaborative R&D Calls)

Wales e.g. Welsh Government

(Smart Innovation, Innovation Vouchers)

EU e.g. Horizon 2020 (various strands)

….plus multi-agency challenge-led programmes (SBRI)

• Direct Funding of Opportunities / Projects

• CDT (Eng. D £9k / annum - 4 years) & MRes

• WEFO (ERDF); Innovate UK; EPSRC – Targets / KPIs• Required to report on Activity andImpact

A snapshot of our collaborations

How do we engage with others?

• Developing and enhancing relationships (Companies andHEIs)

• Responding to Wales / UK / EU Challenges & Opportunities

• Networks & Special Interest Groups (KTNs)

• Participating in Foreign Direct InvestmentActivities

• Participating in Sector Based TradeEvents

• ERDF - Actively engaging with WWV SMEs

• Responding to Wales / UK Public Sector & LocalAuthority Tenders

Our Goals…and partnership opportunities!

We are flexible how we work with others

SPECIFIC will aim to deliver (with its partners) - 2016-2021

Now……SPECIFIC@SHED

• GenerateTechnologies

• System Integration Technologies

• Release Technologies

• Inter-seasonal Heat Storage

• Diurnal Heat Storage

• 20p per watt peak building integrated photovoltaics

• Building Scale Batteries that offer off grid paritystorage

• Inter-seasonal solar thermal generation and storage

• Building demonstrators across residential industrialand

commercial sectors (new build andretrofit)

• An enhanced concept to commercialisation platform

with aligned industry and academic partners

• Be a catalyst for a new £1bn industry

• 1000’s jobs through its developed supply chains

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