Roundtables
Scan to BIM Technology and Prefabrication of Innovative Insulation in Retrofitting of Residential Buildings
12th December, 2023, 08:30 – 10:30 CET / 16:30 – 18:30 JST, online
To achieve a sustainable building sector as part of Japan’s and Germany’s ambition to become climate neutral by mid-century, appr. 90% or residential building stocks in both countries need to be renovated (or rebuilt, taking up more resources). The GJETC believes that a key contributing factor is to economize this process by promoting and improving on making use of new technologies, such as Scan-to-BIM, that enable prefabrication and serial renovation.
Objective of the Innovation Roundtable
The objective of the Innovation Roundtable is to identify competences in each country to advance retrofit initiatives and to develop ideas and concepts for joint projects, e.g., the development and demonstration of industrial construction/pre-fabrication of sustainable and space-saving insulation elements and concepts, conductive to scaling up cost-effective refurbishment.
To achieve this, the GJETC invites companies and research institutes specialized in retrofitting process coordination and technology, prefabrication for retrofitting, and sustainable building shell and insulation materials and prefabricated elements to a virtual table.
Innovation Roundtable: Thermoelectric Generators (TEG) for Waste Heat Usage in the Industry: Technologies, Applications, Future Challenges – November 2021
The first GJETC Innovation Roundtable on 5 November 2021 targeted Thermoelectric generators (TEG) for Waste Heat Usage in the Industry. Suppliers and users as well as research institutes and supporting bodies from Japan and Germany were brought together to exchange information on the current state and new developments of technology, current and new applications and future challenges to be addressed. The event successfully provided ideas and research impulses to define contents for joint R&D projects and will serve as a basis for further discussions with relevant ministries.
Objective of the Innovation Roundtable
- bring together suppliers and users as well as research institutes and supporting bodies from both sides
- exchange of information on the current state and new developments of technology, pros and cons in comparison to other waste heat use technologies such as ORC, possibilities for cost reduction (material, production process etc.) and experiences of use cases
- develop ideas, concepts and research impulses in close cooperation with companies and research institutes on the German and Japanese side
- define contents for joint R&D projects for further improvement of TEGs (efficiency, costs) or for joint demonstration projects for industrial applications
