The Knowledge Hub
The Knowledge Hub page is a central location where all reports submitted by the i-Hub sub-projects can be found.
The reports are also available to download on individual sub-project pages.
Living Laboratories – Green Proving Grounds
This project will quantify sector energy consumption and identify the potential for integrated HVAC and renewable energy solutions.
- LLHC1 Health and Energy Roadmap Report
- LLHC1 Knowledge Sharing Report
- LLHC1 Lessons Learnt Report
- LLHC1 Renewable Energy and Enabling Technology and Services Evaluation Framework (REETSEF) for Healthcare Sector
- LLHC1 Technical Report: Healthcare Sector Baseline Data and KPIs
- LLHC1 Interim Report: Examination of the potential to align health and energy co-benefits
The Warrigal Shell Cove i-Hub Living Laboratory will be a world class aged care home for independent evaluation of the benefits of emerging HVAC&R, renewable energy and enabling technologies.
- LLHC2 Technology Evaluation report
- LLHC2 Lessons Learnt Report
- LLHC2 Knowledge Sharing Report
- Warrigal Shell Cove Living Laboratory Prospectus
- LLHC2 Technical Report: Warrigal Residential Care Home – Monitoring and Baseline Data Analysis V3.0
- LLHC2 Technology Evaluation Report – Flow Power: Electricity Spot Price Trading
- LLHC2 M6 Lessons Learnt Report
This new RAC will support validation of innovations in building products, smart sensors and control devices, and electricity generation, storage and trading.
- LLCH3 Lessons Learnt
- LLHC3 Knowledge Sharing
- LLHC3 Fernhill Residential Aged Care – Operations Manual and Baseline Data Analysis V4.0
- LLHC3 Fernhill Residential Aged Care Baseline Data V4.0
- LLHC3 Technology Evaluation Report – Synengco HVAC Plant Digital Twin
- LLHC3 Technology Evaluation Report – Application of Honeycomb Blinds
- LLHC3 M6 Lessons Learnt Report
This hospital Living Lab will validate emerging technologies in demand reduction, demand management, renewable energy and enabling technologies.
- LLHC4 Technology Evaluation Report – GMG Thermal XR Coating System
- LLHC4 Technology Evaluation Report – Exergenics Stage 2
- LLHC4 Technology Evaluation Report – Buildings Alive REF
- LLHC4 Technical Report – Analysis of Future Energy Use QCH
- LLHC4 Lessons learnt report
- LLCH4 Knowledge sharing report
- LLHC4 Queensland Children’s Hospital – Operations Manual and Baseline Data V3.0
- LLHC4 Queensland Children’s Hospital – Baseline Data V1.0
- LLHC4 Technology Evaluation Report – Exergenics Digital Twin (QCH Chiller system optimisation)
- LLHC4 M6 Lessons Learnt Report
This project will assist healthcare facility asset managers in operating and managing their building and energy infrastructure assets.
The project will develop the framework to quantify the impact of a holistic and integrated approach to building upgrades on classroom indoor environment quality (IEQ), school energy consumption and demand profiles.
- LLS1 Living Labs Educational Sector Energy Baseline and Key Performance Report – Analysis of energy consumption in Australian Schools
- LLS1 Renewable Energy and Enabling Technologies and Services Roadmap for Schools
- LLS1 Lessons learnt report
- LLS1 Sub – project knowledge sharing report
- LLS1 Technical Report: Living Labs Educational Sector Energy Baseline and Key Performance Indicators V2.0
- Lessons Learnt Report
- LLS1 Technical Report: Whole of life assessment guide for HVAC technology replacement decisions: Education Sector
- LLS2 Technology Evaluation Report – Slab heating split system AC comparison
- LLS2 Lessons learnt report
- LLS2 Sub – project knowledge sharing report
- Living Lab Operations Manual: ACT Education
- ACT Schools Living Laboratory Prospectus
- LLS2 Technical Report: ACT Education Living Laboratory Monitoring and Baseline Data Analysis V2.0
- LLS2 Technology Evaluation Report – Hivve Sustainable Modular Classrooms: Envelope and Heating
- LLS2 M6 Lessons Learnt Report
The project will explore the effectiveness of the existing automatic HVAC controls (Hivve IQ) in relation to PV generated/battery stored energy usage and the peak demand in the classrooms before and after the installation of a Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) system as well as against equivalent adjacent transportable classrooms on each site.
Integrated Design Studios
This project sits above the i-Hub series of Integrated Design Studios (IDS’s) program being responsible for the wider sharing of knowledge developed from the program.
- IDSKS Catalyst for Integrated Design v5.1
- IDSKS Report on combined IDS outcomes and learnings
- IDSKS Lessons learnt report
- IDSKS Cross – program knowledge sharing report
- IDSKS JP03 Lessons from Integrated Design Studios_Focus on Zero Carbon
- Lessons Learnt Report
- IDSKS Catalyst for Integrated Design
- What are we doing about Integrated Design?
The IDS-01 Next DC Integrated Design Studio investigates design innovation to reduce net energy consumption through the use of renewables and other energy technologies.
The IDS-02 ACT Schools Integrated Design Studio investigates design innovation to reduce net energy consumption through the use of renewables and other energy technologies.
This studio is the second to examine schools. Learnings from the first schools studio will be built upon and extended.
Ambulance Victoria aims to reach zero-net carbon by 2050. Solutions will be innovative and adaptable to each of Victoria’s climatic zones and the future electrification of fleet. They will also be socially responsible. The integrated design studios will be explore avenues in design to help achieve this.
Aquatic centres are notoriously heavy users of energy. Their extended operating hours, large heating loads and subsequent large energy costs represent a significant drain on council finances. As public buildings with a recreation agenda there is also considerable pressure to provide open architecture with areas of glass façade, etc. This makes them ideal candidates for the Integrated Design Studios. Renewables along with other emerging technologies such as low charge ammonia heat pumps will be explored in a push to reduce energy use.
This project is one of a series of Integrated Design Studios (IDS’s) to be carried out under i-Hub. This studio will use transport buildings (namely stations), as a part of the LXRP (Level Crossing Removal Project Victoria) as a case study.
This project is one of a series of Integrated Design Studios (IDS’s) to be carried out under i-Hub. This studio will use Aged Care as a case study.
This studio will use laboratory facilities (buildings) as a case study.
This project is one of a series of Integrated Design Studios (IDS’s) to be carried out under i-Hub. This studio will use the Lightning Ridge LALC Multi-Purpose Building as a case study.
This project is one of a series of Integrated Design Studios (IDS’s) to be carried out under i-Hub. This studio will use the Lendlease Residential Aged Care Facility on the University of Wollongong’s Health and Wellbeing Precinct as a case study.
This studio will use the Wollongong City Council Ribbonwood Community Centre as a case study.
This studio will use the Illawarra LALC Former Unanderra Police Station Redevelopment as a case study.
This IDS program, incorporating two design projects (IDS-13 and IDS-14), will bring together architects, mechanical and electrical engineers, construction managers and quantity surveyors to explore new ways of designing that will integrate technical performance and “constructability” with the many other design aspects of mixed-use buildings incorporating aspects of aged care.
Data Clearing House
This project will investigate features of the CSIRO Senaps data platform and their suitability for the DCH.
- DCH1 DCH Product features report
- DCH1 Report: Assessment of Demand Response Potentials in Australian Non – Residential Buildings
- DCH1 Sub – project knowledge sharing report
- Ecolibrium Spring 2020 i-Hub Data Clearing House
- DCH1 HVAC_DR Resource Assessment Summary Report
- DCH1 Lessons Learnt Report V1.0 October 2020
- Data Clearing House – Integration options
- DCH1 M5 Lessons Learnt May 2021
- DCH API Manual (Oct 2021)
- DCH1 M6 Lessons Learnt Report
The Open Data Clearing House project will develop and deliver a proof of concept that demonstrates how technology infrastructure can underpin an open data clearing house for all Australian buildings.
The DCH will provide the base data lake for this analysis with algorithms developed running off the data collated by the DCH. The results will inform on the feasibility of using gas engines in commercial buildings as a demand response resource, from a financial and environmental perspective.
The project will demonstrate the implementation of IoT solutions with the DCH IoT platform, as a means of scaling the management (control and maintenance) of solar, batteries and HVAC in Property NSW’s building portfolio.
The technical and operational challenges caused by the higher ingestion of DER in the electricity grid can be addressed using demand response. In this regard, efficient scheduling of flexible loads can play a pivotal role. In this context, a fully operational open ADR based DR model, emphasising the HVAC systems in two commercial buildings at Swinburne University, is proposed. A multi-agent-based open transactive demand response (TDR) model is proposed to improve the efficiency of HVAC and on-site renewables. The core component of the model is the multifactor optimisation of energy usage based upon activity type, weather conditions, and the occupancy rate.
Data Clearing House (DCH) 6.1 provides proof-of-concept testing to onboard 3-trial sites from SINSW’s building portfolio, and demonstrate DCH operational effectiveness.
- DCH6.1 Report on operational testing and evaluation of control systems in each of the 3 schools
- DCH6.1 CSIRO Battery Schedule Report
- DCH6.1 Lessons learnt report
- DCH6.1 Sub – project knowledge sharing report
- DCH6.1 Technical Report: Site survey and concept design
- DCH6.1 Lessons Learnt Report V1.0 October 2020
This project proposes the utilisation of the VBIS asset classification open standard and link them with Data Clearing House based semantic models to demonstrate the benefits of integrated asset and building tagging systems to be used by PrediQ’s analytics solutions.
- DCH7 Application implementation in trial buildings report
- DCH7 Use case results report
- DCH7 Lessons learnt report
- DCH7 Sub – project knowledge sharing report
- DCH7 Building of Data Models for 2 Buildings Report
- DCH7 PV Analytics and Energy Analytics Development Report
- DCH7 Appendix 1 – PV Analytics and Energy Analytics Development Report – Data Ingestion List for connected sites as of November 2021
- DCH7 Appendix 2 – PV Analytics and Energy Analytics Development Building Report – Performance Results for Library at the Dock
- DCH7 M6 Lessons Learnt Report
This project aims to integrate the Exergenics exOptima central HVAC plant optimisation solution with the Data Clearing House and use it to demonstrate energy savings and renewable energy demand profile matching, in at least one CSIRO building.
This will help validate the efficacy of the Data Clearing House as a tool for Exergenics to rapidly onboard buildings. It will also provide a rigorous case-study of the exOptima software that can be used to develop the market for Exergenics services.
This project tests the hypothesis that, in less than 6 months, data from 11 buildings at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, along with electricity and gas utility data can be ingested to the Data Clearing House (DCH) platform and other databases so that a Renewable Energy and Enabling Technology and Services Evaluation Framework (REETSEF) report as specified in iHub LLHC1 can be produced for Metro North Health (MNH).
The outcomes from this project will highlight opportunities in existing building stock that can accelerate the uptake of renewables and reduce energy consumption.