2. PROJECT LAUNCH
14:00 Welcome, Prof Douglas Greenhalgh, Head of the School of Engineering
and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University
14:10 Mainstreaming Innovation Project - Prof Branka Dimitrijevic, Project
Director
Research on Sustainable Infrastructure and Collaboration with Industry
14:40 Glasgow Caledonian University - Prof Branka Dimitrijevic
15:00 The Glasgow School of Art - Dr Tim Sharpe
15:20 University of Strathclyde Glasgow - Dr Jeremy Cockroft
15:40 Discussion on research potential within the Mainstreaming
Innovation project
16:00 Networking and refreshments
16:30 Close
3. ABOUT THE PROJECT
• BACKGROUND
• CONTEXT
• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
• ACTIVITIES
• COLLABORATION
• PRACTITIONERS’ VIEWS
• DISSEMINATION
• HOW TO ENGAGE
4. BACKGROUND
• Follow-up of the project CIC Start Online whose focus
was on sustainable building design and refurbishment
• Knowledge Base available at www.cicstart.org
• Increasing the consortium – two more universities
• Widening the project scope to include the sustainable
infrastructure integration into the existing built
environment
• Engaging with existing housing, education and
healthcare estates
• Engaging with FE colleges
5. CONTEXT
Scotland’s sustainable development
The Government
Economic
Strategy, 2007
Climate Change
(Scotland) Act 2009
A Low Carbon
Economic Strategy
for Scotland – A Low
carbon Society, 2010
6. CONTEXT
Infrastructure Investment Plan
In February 2013 Scottish Government updated its 2011 Infrastructure
Investment Plan, increasing spending on capital investment to £3.1 billion for
2012-13 which it hopes will create more that 40,000 jobs in Scotland, and is
set in the context of other ambitious proposals to reindustrialise Scotland and
create a ‘Hydro Nation’ that takes full advantage of its abundant natural
resources.
• Further and Higher Education
• Health
• Justice
• Schools
• Transport
• Culture
• Enterprise
7. CONTEXT
Towards a low carbon economy and “The Third Industrial Revolution”
• The Third Industrial Revolution - Long-term economic
sustainability plan to address the global economic
crisis, energy security, and climate change
• Endorsed by the European Parliament in 2007, the UK
Government ‘s White Paper on Energy, 2007, and United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in
2011
Jeremy Rifkin,
an American
economist, writer, political
advisor and activist
8. CONTEXT
Rifkin’s vision of the third industrial revolution
Tesla Roadster
battery electric vehicle (BEV)
Energy Storage
ICT Energy
Distribution System
Local or National
Grid
1
2
3
4
5
9. CONTEXT
Energy and other infrastructure within the natural and built environment
Energy generation from renewables on site and storage
ICT for energy management and decentralised distribution
Electric vehicles
Waste (reduction, re-use, to-energy)
Water (harvesting, saving, re-use)
Energy efficiency of buildings
Landscape and biodiversity
+
The Third
Industrial
Revolution
Additional reduction of the
ecological footprint
10. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
ICT for energy management and decentralised distribution
Low carbon transport (electric vehicles, cycling and walking)
Waste (reduction, re-use, to-energy)
Energy efficiency of buildings
Landscape and biodiversity
Water (harvesting, saving, re-use)
Energy generation from renewables, storage and use (electricity and heating)
MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
11. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
Energy
generation from
renewables, sto
rage and use
(electricity and
heating)
ICT
Low carbon transport
(electric vehicles, cycling and walking)
Waste
(reduction, re-
use, to-energy)
Water
(harvesting, sav
ing, re-use)
Energy
efficiency
of buildings
Landscape and biodiversity
12. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
Invitation for new technological solutions that combine different low
carbon innovations to:
• make better use of resources
• close energy loops
• achieve better efficiencies
• reduce the need for maintenance
• minimise costs
13. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
Energy
generation from
renewables, sto
rage and use
(electricity and
heating)
ICT
Landscape and biodiversity
Low carbon transport
(electric vehicles, cycling and walking)
POTENTIAL INNOVATIVE
SOLUTIONS
Biomass for heating and
biofuel:
• assessment of biomass
resources for heating and
biofuel
• plant location to reduce
transportation
• ICT to inform
processes, on-time sales
management etc.
•business case
14. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
Energy
generation from
renewables, sto
rage and use
(electricity and
heating)
ICT
Low carbon transport
(electric vehicles, cycling and walking)
Energy
efficiency
of buildings
Water
(harvesting, sav
ing, re-use)
POTENTIAL
INNOVATIVE
SOLUTIONS
•Using harvested
water for hot water
panels and as
energy storage
• using heat from
PVs to improve
performance of
MVHR
• using electric
vehicles to store
energy from PVs
• using ICT to inform
management
15. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
Energy
generation from
renewables, sto
rage and use
(electricity and
heating)
ICT
Low carbon transport
(electric vehicles, cycling and walking)
Waste
(reduction, re-
use, to-energy)
Producing energy from waste for low carbon transport
16. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
Scale: Estate
Energy
generation from
renewables, sto
rage and use
(electricity and
heating)
ICT
Low carbon transport
(electric vehicles, cycling and walking)
Waste
(reduction, re-
use, to-energy)
Water
(harvesting, sav
ing, re-use)
Energy
efficiency
of buildings
Landscape and biodiversity
17. Integration of Sustainable Infrastructure
Exploring potential links/synergies between innovative products or
processes of different infrastructure systems
Energy
generation from
renewables, sto
rage and use
(electricity and
heating)
ICT
Low carbon transport
(electric vehicles, cycling and walking)
Waste
(reduction, re-
use, to-energy)
Water
(harvesting, sav
ing, re-use)
Energy
efficiency
of buildings
Landscape and biodiversity
18. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
A JOINT PROJECT OF NINE
SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES
FUNDED BY SCOTTISH
GOVERNMENT
1 April 2013 – 31 March 2014
19. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
STEERING GROUP
Dr Charles Russell
Prof. Tariq Muneer
Prof. Phil Banfill
Dr Tim Sharpe
Dr David Moore
Dr Mohammed Imbabi
Dr David Blackwood
Dr Kate Heal
Dr Jeremy Cockroft
21. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Website: www.mainstreaminginnovation.org
RESOURCES
Research on the EU, UK and Scottish
policies, legislation, initiatives and projects related to the scope
of the project Mainstreaming Innovation was funded by Scottish
Government and presented in this section of the website.
Subscribe to innovation E-NEWS
Twitter @main_innovation
22. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Aims and Objectives
1. Reduce carbon emissions through research and application of
design, refurbishment and management of sustainable infrastructure
within the built environment that could be replicated on existing and new
building estates (e.g. housing, education, healthcare and other building
estates)
2. Adapt to changing climate by strengthening the resilience of
buildings and infrastructure, and by reducing fuel poverty
3. Mitigate the impacts of changing climate by influencing the
development of skills and capacities for
planning, designing, procuring, managing and maintaining low carbon built
environment
23. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Aims and Objectives
4. Ensure security of supply of energy and resources by maximizing the
use of local low carbon resources and independence of supply systems
5. Develop methods of ensuring that innovations are presented to
building owners/clients, industry and FE colleges.
24. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Activities
Responding to the requests for assistance to prepare applications for
funding to develop/improve innovative products or processes for low
carbon infrastructure.
Innovations will be tested on selected existing estates for
• healthcare
• education
• housing.
The applications for feasibility studies will be reviewed by an independent
Advisory Panel and submitted for funding to Scottish, UK and European
funding programmes
TARGET: 21 APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDING SUBMITTED
25. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Advisory Panel
• Resource Efficient Scotland (managed by Zero Waste Scotland)
• Health Facilities Scotland
• Glasgow Housing Association
• University of St Andrews Estate Management
• Skanska
26. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Collaboration
• Community Energy Scotland
• Electric Vehicles (EV) Association Scotland
• Energy Technology Partnership (ETP)
• FE Colleges
• Greenspace Scotland
• Making the Most of Masters
• Scottish Enterprise
• Scottish Renewables
• Scottish Water
• SEGEC
• SEPA
• Smart City Glasgow
• SUDS Working Party
• SUST
• Zero Waste Scotland
28. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Dissemination
Dissemination of the project outputs will be delivered at demonstration
events in FE colleges whose curriculum includes courses related to the
innovations that will be presented.
The events will be filmed and footage used in webinars and saved as
video recordings.
The project will publish monthly E-News and a quarterly online
magazine with articles on the context (legislation and policies), support
(financial initiatives and other forms of support), research and best practice.
29. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Benefits
The studies will be useful to:
• The selected estates
• The occupants and/or users of the buildings in the above estates
• Other housing, health and education estates in Scotland
• Scottish businesses that offer low carbon products and/or services for
sustainable infrastructure
• Other businesses in low carbon technologies sector as webinars and video
recordings of dissemination events can be used for CPD
• The FE colleges hosting demonstration events
• The universities involved in the studies as they will demonstrate expertise
available in each institution nationally and internationally
30. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Who can obtain assistance?
A company registered in Scotland, could be in partnership with companies
beyond Scotland, depending on conditions of funding programmes
• Register with the project. Registration is free.
• Provide a brief description of the assistance required.
How to obtain assistance through the project?
What is the target market?
Healthcare, education and housing estates
31. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Collaboration with FE colleges and other projects
• Academics collaborating on the studies should indicate FE colleges
with which they have links and which could host demonstration events.
• Academics should also indicate if a topic for a masters project
could be proposed that would be of benefit to the business.
Mainstreaming Innovation will collaborate with the project Making the
Most of Masters, funded by Scottish Funding Council, which helps in
identifying potential topics for masters projects of benefit to the
industry.
32. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
What happens next?
1. The request for assistance from a business will be forwarded to
researchers at the universities involved in the project.
2. Expressions of interest from researchers will be provided to the
business after 5 working days, including contact details of the
researchers who can assist.
33. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
What happens next?
3. The researchers and the business will select or be advised about an
appropriate funding scheme (links to Funding Programmes from the
website) to apply and then complete the application form
4. Draft application form should be sent to
submission@mainstreaminginnovation.org to obtain comments and
suggestions from the Advisory Panel within 5 working days.
34. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
What happens next?
5. After receiving the advice from the Advisory Panel, the applicants
are encouraged to use the recommendations to strengthen the
application and submit to the funding programme. Depending on the
funding programme conditions, applications are submitted either by the
university or the business.
35. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
How will the Advisory Panel help?
The Advisory Panel will provide answers to the following questions:
a) Is the proposed solution an improvement in relation to the existing
solutions regarding the following:
• Reduction in energy use: Significant/ High/ Moderate/ Low / No
• Cost reduction: Significant/ High/ Moderate/ Low / No
• If moderate/low/no, what should be improved or addressed?
36. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
How will the Advisory Panel help?
b) Could the proposed solution be applied on the following existing
built estates for:
• Healthcare / Housing / Education (more than one option possible)/
None
• If none, what should be improved or addressed?
37. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
How will the Advisory Pane help?
c) What else the innovators might consider to
• decrease delivery and running costs
• increase the value by providing more functions/services or have
greater impacts
• improve resilience, control & future flexibility.
38. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
How will the Advisory Panel help?
d) Other comments and suggestions, including the existing
housing, healthcare and university estates on which the
application of infrastructure can be tested.
39. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Benefits of the advice from the Advisory Board
• Focus on the applicability of the proposed innovation in terms of
types of buildings and estates on which it can be used, and potential
for application on large scale
• Understand what should be addressed to improve quality in terms of
embedded and operational carbon, efficiency, easy installation and
maintenance, cost and durability
• Identify the potential market
• Use the advice of the Advisory Panel to strengthen the application.
40. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Other benefits of the engagement with the project
• identify the infrastructure innovations that could be put forward
for funding for larger R&D low carbon infrastructure projects that
will be provided by Technology Strategy Board in January 2014, and to
assist in the preparation of applications
• disseminate the outputs of the studies which have obtained
funding (taking care to protect Intellectual Property Rights) at
demonstration events in FE colleges which offer related courses to
inform about skills that will be required for the installation of innovative
infrastructure systems
41. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
Other benefits of the engagement with the project
• increase awareness and understanding of innovative
infrastructures supported through the project by presenting them at
webinars, in videos and articles in the quarterly online magazine
• promote expertise of researchers at Scottish universities and
businesses supported through the project to the project members
across Scotland, United Kingdom and worldwide (over 300 members
of CIC Start Online from across the UK and 16 other countries have
transferred their membership to the new project by 8th April 2013)
42. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
SCOTLAND
Resource Efficient Scotland
• Information, advice and expertise on the use of raw materials, waste, energy
and water, all in in one place, to help businesses and organisations make
efficiencies and save costs.
• Delivered by the Zero Waste Scotland
• Funded by the Scottish Government
• Advice and Support available from the 1st April 2013
• Resource Efficient Scotland will support Mainstreaming Innovation by
assisting to identify projects which may be suitable, by providing funding for
projects where applicable and by joining the Advisory Panel.
43. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
SCOTLAND
CARES Infrastructure and Innovation Fund
In recognition of the potential benefits of localising energy demand, the Scottish
Government established the CARES Infrastructure and Innovation Fund .
• Projects have to demonstrate ‘innovation in energy distribution or management’
• All Scottish communities potentially eligible
• RSL’s, LA’s, or universities have to be in partnership with a local community org
• £150k max grant per applicant
• Feasibility or capital costs eligible, no minimum project size
• Generating plant NOT eligible
• Standard grid connections NOT eligible
44. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
SCOTLAND
CARES Infrastructure and Innovation Fund
Types of projects supported:
• Active Network Management: Managing generators’ output in real time
• Demand Side Management: Controlling demand so it fits with generator output
• Local supply (via tariffs or private wire): Selling electricity or heat directly to local
consumers
•Energy storage: Storing energy rather than distributing it in real time
Projects can combine one or more of these approaches.
46. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
SCOTLAND
• Scottish Funding Council
1. Innovation Voucher Scheme (up to £5,000) - 1st Monday of each
month until Monday 3rd June 2013
2. Innovation Voucher Scheme Follow on Funding (up to £20,000) -
7th June 2013
• Scottish Energy Laboratory/ETP
• Scottish Enterprise Grants
47. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
UNITED KINGDOM
1. TSB - Scaling up Retrofit of our nation’s homes
Key aspects
•Proposals in range £500k -£3m
•Collaborative R&D (consortiums of 3+ members)
•2-stage
•Industrial research / process improvement
•take the findings from the research and apply it to future programmes
of retrofit work (exploitation later)
•Business-led innovation
•Low cost performance monitoring, customer after-care and user-
centred solutions
•On-site construction work optional / trialling
•Dwellings, individually metered
48. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
UNITED KINGDOM
1. TSB - Scaling up Retrofit of our nation’s homes
Example areas
•dramatically reducing the cost and time taken for specification and
installation
•new integrated products and solutions
•on-site worker efficiencies
•new fitting and fixing methods
•new methods of measuring and assuring performance in use
•in combination with new business models
49. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
UNITED KINGDOM
1. TSB - Scaling up Retrofit of our nation’s homes
Timeline
•EoI registration deadline - 10th April noon
•EoI deadline - 17th April noon
•Stage 2 opens (successful applicants) - 13th May
•Stage 2 deadline - 12th June noon
50. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
UNITED KINGDOM
Technology Strategy Board
2. Buildings Better Connected – submission deadline 1 May 2013
• Feasibility – £500k feasibility studies; 15 studies at £50k {65 -75% intervention}; August
> October 2013
• CR&D – £4.5M; 8 projects (£250k > £2M) each tranche {50 –60% intervention};
January 2014 –12 > 36 months
• Single stage competition; Competition opens 18 March 2013; Register by noon on 24
April 2013 at www.innovateuk.org
• Applications to be received by noon on 1 May 2013; Projects start 1 August 2013;
Projects complete by 31 October 2013
• CR&D competition to open in January 2014
51. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
2. Buildings Better Connected – Scope:
• Building / neighbourhood scale
• Enabling technologies –power stations of the future
• Smart systems for power, warmth & cooling
• DC power systems
• Energy harvesting & storage
• Convenience & smarter charging for devices & plant / vehicles
• ICT as an enabler for energy trading –developing protocols
• Digital electricity and demand management
• Identifying & managing vulnerabilities & opportunities
• Blue & green infrastructure –drainage / cooling
• Integrating & enabling new technologies of local infrastructure
• Buildings > neighbourhoods > communities > urban districts
• New build & retrofit
• Domestic or non domestic
Out of scope
•Only energy efficiency
of buildings
•Transportation –except
as energy storage/
transfer
•Grid scale power
electronics or storage
•Energy pricing or tariff
models
•Individualistic off grid
living solutions
52. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
EU funding programmes
• Support to set up academic/industry partnerships to initiate preparation
of applications for EU funding programmes and dissemination of their
outputs
• Horizon 2020 - Mainstreaming Innovation is well placed to initiate
academic/industry partnerships and support development of project
proposals for the calls that are expected by the end of 2013.
53. FUNDING PROGRAMMES
EU funding programmes
• Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) 2013 - 8th May 2013
• Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) 2013 – 22 May 2013
• Life+ 2013 – 25 June 2013
• Sustainable Industry Low Carbon Scheme (SILC) -13 June 2013
• EUROSTARS – deadlines to be announced
• Horizon 2020 - 2014 to 2020
Investors
• GeoCapita – more information and contact details on the project website
54. MAINSTREAMING INNOVATION
We look forward to your immediate requests for assistance
following the registration on the project website.
Thank you.
Editor's Notes
Scotland’s key national policies on sustainable development have defined how Scotland will contribute to the international efforts to reduce its ecological footprint and carbon emissions while supporting the development of low carbon economy that will meet the needs of its population.
In February 2013 Scottish Government updated its 2011 Infrastructure Investment Plan, increasing spending on capital investment to £3.1 billion for 2012-13 which it hopes will create more that 40,000 jobs in Scotland, and is set in the context of other ambitious proposals to reindustrialise Scotland and create a ‘Hydro Nation’ that takes full advantage of its abundant natural resources. Further and Higher Education Health Justice Schools Transport Culture Enterprise
A vision of low carbon economy has partially been provided by Jeremy Rifkin, an American economist to address the global economic crisis, energy security, and climate change. It has been endorsed by the European Parliament in 2007, the UK Government ‘s White Paper on Energy, 2007, and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in 2011.
Rifkin’s vision of an industrial revolution includes five pillars that will reduce carbon emissions from energy generation and use: renewable energy, buildings that contribute to energy generation from renewables, energy storage, ICT energy distribution systems and electric vehicles.
However, sustainable development also relies on other issues related to buildings and other types of infrastructure. Along with the infrastructure proposed in Rifkin’s vision of the third industrial revolution, we need to improve energy efficiency of buildings that will also generate energy from renewables to reduce the energy consumption for heating, cooling and lighting.We also need to reduce consumption of other natural resources by reducing waste and reusing it for other purposes, including energy generation. Water availability, cost and carbon emissions related to supplying of water have also to be considered and include actions for water harvesting, saving and reuse. As we use natural resources, we have to plan how to replenish them, how to use them to mitigate the effects of climate change such as floods and draughts, and how to improve the quality of the built environment.
The scope of innovations that will be supported through Mainstreaming Innovation has thus been extended to encourage consideration of all infrastructure systems, how they might complement each other and how innovative solutions can be developed to address more than one problem. It includes landscape and biodiversity (a network of natural and man-made green and water spaces that sustain natural habitat), i.e. the natural environment within the built environment. Within the built environment, the focus of the project is on the performance of buildings and infrastructure, e.g. energy efficiency of buildings; energy generation from renewables, storage and use (electricity and heating); ICT for energy management and decentralised distribution; low carbon transport (electric vehicles, cycling and walking); waste (reduction, re-use, to-energy) and water (harvesting, saving, re-use).
The project will stimulate identification of potential synergies of different infrastructures, how they can be successfully integrated and how they use landscape and biodiversity to mitigate the impact of climate change and improve their condition. If we do not ask these questions, we will never know how excellent the answers might be.
New technological solutions that combine different low carbon innovations to make better use of resources, close energy loops, achieve better efficiencies, reduce the need for maintenance and minimise costs will be encouraged.
What potential innovative solutions could be explored, for instance, on behalf of a company interested in the use of biomass for heating and biofuel? At least four systems have to be examined to prepare a feasibility study and business case, including an assessment of natural resources available, optimal plant location to minimise transportation, how to use ICT to inform processes, on-time sales management etc, and assessment of potential biofuel production.
Another example can be exploration of the use of harvested water for hot water panels and as energy storage, using heat from PVs to improve performance of MVHR, and using electric vehicles to store energy from PVs.
The third example could be to examine the feasibility of energy production from waste for low carbon transport. These examples only highlight the existing trend in academic and industry research which aims to widen the innovation focus from solutions, products or processes, for one infrastructure system towards the solutions that successfully link different infrastructure systems.
The scale we are proposing to deal with in this project is the scale of an estate.
We would like to encourage innovators of one product or process for one infrastructure or building services system to explore how it might be linked with other systems within a building and an estate
With the funding from Scottish Government, the project will be delivered through collaboration of nine Scottish universities from 1 April 2013 until31 March 2014.
Steering Group members
The project aims and objectives are to:1. Reduce carbon emissions through research and application of design, refurbishment and management of sustainable infrastructure within the built environment that could be replicated on existing and new building estates (e.g. housing, education, healthcare and other building estates) 2. Adapt to changing climate by strengthening the resilience of buildings and infrastructure, and by reducing fuel poverty 3. Mitigate the impacts of changing climate by influencing the development of skills and capacities for planning, designing, procuring, managing and maintaining low carbon built environment
4. Ensure security of supply of energy and resources by maximizing the use of local low carbon resources and independence of supply systems 5. Develop methods of ensuring that innovations are presented to building owners/clients, industry and colleges.
ActivitiesResponding to the requests for assistance to prepare applications for funding to develop/improve innovative products or processes for low carbon infrastructure. Innovations will be tested on selected existing estates for healthcare education housing. The applications for feasibility studies will be reviewed by an independent Advisory Panel and submitted for funding to Scottish, UK and European funding programmesTARGET: 21 APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDING SUBMITTED
Zero Waste Scotland Health Facilities Scotland Glasgow Housing Association University of St Andrews Estate Management Skanska
We asked members of the Advisory Panel involved in planning or managing housing, healthcare and education estates or construction to tell us their views on the need for sustainable infrastructure, and related current and long-term plans.
Dissemination of the project outputs will be delivered at demonstration events in FE colleges whose curriculum includes courses related to the innovations that will be presented.The events will be filmed and footage used in webinars and saved as video recordings. The project will publish monthly E-News and a quarterly online magazine with articles on the context (legislation and policies), support (financial initiatives and other forms of support), research and best practice.
The studies will be useful to The selected estates The occupants and/or users of the buildings in the above estates Other housing, health and education estates in Scotland Scottish businesses that offer low carbon products and/or services for sustainable infrastructure, Other businesses in low carbon technologies sector as webinars and video recordings of dissemination events can be used for CPD The colleges hosting demonstration events The universities involved in the studies as they will demonstrate expertise available in each institution nationally and internationally
Who can obtain assistance?A company registered in Scotland, could be in partnership with companies beyond Scotland, depending on conditions of funding programmesHow to obtain assistance through the project? Register with the project. Registration is free. Provide a brief description of the assistance required. What is the target market?Healthcare, education and housing estates
Regarding our collaboration with colleges and other projects Academics should indicate FE colleges with which they have links and which could host demonstration events. Academics should indicate if a topic for a masters project could be proposed that would be of benefit to the business. Mainstreaming Innovation will collaborate with the project Making the Most of Masters, funded by Scottish Funding Council, which helps in identifying potential topics for masters projects of benefit to the industry.
What happens next?1. The request for assistance from a business will be forwarded to researchers at the universities involved in the project. 2. Expressions of interest from researchers will be provided to the business after 5 working days, including contact details of the researchers who can assist.
3. The researchers and the business will then select the appropriate funding scheme (link to Funding Sources) they wish to apply and complete the application form4. Draft application form should be sent to submission@mainstreaminginnovation.org to obtain comments and suggestions from the Advisory Board within 5 working days
5. After receiving the advice from the Advisory Board, the applicants are encouraged to use the recommendations to strengthen the application and submit to the funding programme. Depending on the funding programme conditions, applications are submitted either by the university or the business.
How will the Advisory Board help?The Advisory Board will provide answers to the following questions:a) Is the proposed solution an improvement in relation to the existing solutions regarding the following: • Reduction in energy use: Significant/ High/ Moderate/ Low / No• Cost reduction: Significant/ High/ Moderate/ Low / No• If moderate/low/no, what should be improved or addressed?
b) Could the proposed solution be applied on the following existing built estates for:• Healthcare / Housing / Education (more than one option possible)/ None • If none, what should be improved or addressed?
c) What else the innovators might consider to • decrease delivery and running costs• increase the value by providing more functions/services or have greater impacts• improve resilience, control & future flexibility.
d) Other comments and suggestions, including the existing housing, healthcare and university estates on which the application of infrastructure can be tested.
Benefits of the advice from the Advisory Board• Focus on the applicability of the proposed innovation in terms of types of buildings and estates on which it can be used, and potential for application on large scale• Understand what should be addressed to improve its quality in terms of embedded and operational carbon, efficiency, easy installation and maintenance, cost and durability• Identify the potential market• Use the advice of the Advisory Panel to strengthen the application.
Other benefits of the engagement with the project• identify the infrastructure innovations that could be put forward for funding for larger R&D low carbon infrastructure projects that will be provided by Technology Strategy Board in January 2014, and to assist in the preparation of applications• disseminate the outputs of the studies which have obtained funding (taking care to protect Intellectual Property Rights) at demonstration events in colleges which offer related courses to inform about skills that will be required for the installation of innovative infrastructure systems
• increase awareness and understanding of innovative infrastructures supported through the project by presenting them at webinars, in videos and articles in the quarterly online magazine• promote expertise of researchers at Scottish universities and businesses supported through the project to the project members across Scotland, United Kingdom and worldwide
Resource Efficient Scotland is a national programme of integrated services and activities to:-help businesses and organisations be more resource efficient- provide information and expertise on using energy, water and materials more efficiently -provide this information and support to businesses and organisations in the private, public and third sectors- make a significant contribution to the Scottish Government’s strategic economic objectives, climate change, energy efficiency and zero waste targets.Resource Efficient Scotland will support Mainstreaming Innovation by assisting to identify projects which may be suitable, by providing funding for projects where applicable and by joining the Advisory Panel.
In recognition of the potential benefits of localising energy demand, the Scottish Government established the CARES Infrastructure and Innovation Fund .•Projects have to demonstrate ‘innovation in energy distribution or management’•All Scottish communities potentially eligible•RSL’s, LA’s, or universities have to be in partnership with a local community org•£150k max grant per applicant•Feasibility or capital costs eligible, no minimum project size•Generating plant NOT eligible•Standard grid connections NOT eligible•More information in guidance:http://www.communityenergyscotland.org.uk/assets/0000/6944/CARES_Infrastructure_and_Innovation_Fund_Guidance.pdf
Types of projects supported: Active Network Management: Managing generators’ output in real time• Demand Side Management: Controlling demand so it fits with generator output• Local supply (via tariffs or private wire): Selling electricity or heat directly to local consumers•Energy storage: Storing energy rather than distributing it in real timeProjects can combine one or more of these approaches.
SCOTLANDZero Waste ScotlandFunding for R&D projects Scottish Funding Council1. Innovation Voucher Scheme2. Innovation Voucher Scheme Follow on FundingScottish Energy Laboratory/ETPScottish Enterprise Grants
