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The meeting hosted at the Department of GeoSciences, University of Padua (Italy), on 12-13 April 2018 marked the beginning of the GEO4CIVHIC EU project. All 19 project partners, among which the Italian National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Project coordinator, and UNESCO through its Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in [...]

1.Museum of Natural History of Alexandroupolis – Greece, | 2.Administrative building “Palacete de la Cruz Roja” – Spain | 3.Residential building Avangarde Forest 2 – Romania | 4. Residential building in Bucharest – Romania […]

1.Msida Bastion Garden (La Valletta Malta) | 2.UNESCO Historical building (Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta) | 3.Residential House Battelse Bergengn 32 2800 Battel | 4.Residential HouseGreystones, Co.(Wicklow, Ireland) […]

Demonstration Facilities Demonstration facilities (WP5) host the overall GSHP systems, including the building to be renovated, the heat pump and the ground heat exchangers. The GEO4CIVHIC Project will use both real and virtual demonstration facilities […]

Pilot facilities GEO4CIVHIC Project maintains 3 pilot facilities in existing infrastructure, to check and validate the adapted well point technology, a novel high conductive plastic co-axial GSHE, two very shallow heat exchanger solution, the plug and play heat pump […]

Case study sites The test field sites are used for improving the technologies and to develop the innovations within the project. There are 2 companies as partners producing technologies for the drilling: THYSSEN and HYDRA; HYDRA is also a drilling company. Alsfeld, Germany: the new concepts are related to novel technology for the head of the machine: [...]

Project’s objectives The main goal of GEO4CIVHIC is to develop and demonstrate easier to install and more efficient GSHEs, using innovative compact drilling machines tailored for the built environment & developing or adapting HPs and other hybrid solutions in combination with RES for retrofits through a holistic engineering and controls approach improving the return of [...]