Life at the coalface: CITyFiED consortium & cities visit to Soma demo site in Turkey
Nothing can replace the value and insight gained by a hands-on visit.
And this was the case when members of the CITyFiED project consortium and cluster cities combined a recent project meeting with technical visits to the Soma demonstration site.
The retrofitting interventions in the district of Manisa Province cover an area of 41,158 m2 across 346 dwellings on a site owned by SOMA Electricity Generation & Trading Joint Stock Company (SEAŞ) and used to house its personnel.
Two different retrofitting strategies have been proposed at the site and these were shared with the visiting groups. The first consists of the application of passive design strategies on the building envelope adding defined building elements such as insulation. The second strategy consists of integration of active design strategies such as building integrated PV and solar collectors as a renewable technology and innovative integration of monitoring systems from partner REENGEN for providing best indoor comfort conditions and energy savings. Delegates were able to visit an example of ‘before’ and a series of apartments currently undergoing the significant works.
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