1. How EU collaborations and research can benefit Scottish companies: the example of IES
Dr. Valeria Ferrando
Head of EU research
Integrated Environmental Solutions

2. Outline About IES – who we are and our vision
How EU research helped us growing and achieving our vision
Examples and success cases
Resulting Benefits – why we believe it’s worth continuing

3. About IES
SME, 170 staff, headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland with Offices in Ireland, US, India, Australia, Canada, Singapore
world leader in integrated performance 3D analysis software
Selected global users: AECOM, ARUP, ATKINS, Daikin, Mott MacDonald, Ramboll
expanding from use on buildings to creating sustainable intelligent communities, cities and countries
Ongoing commitment to R&D
>35% of annual expenditure

4. R&D goals and track record
Help shape Communities with better monitoring and intelligent control over the way natural resources are utilised
Achieve synergy through more informed district and city development decision making
IES decided to start with funded research to
support and facilitate the achievement of these goals
speed up developments that are already in the plans
help assessing the feasibility of brakethrough innovations

5. IES EU R&D track record
3 FP7 projects successfully coordinated and brought to completion
1 Marie Curie IAPP coordinated and ongoing
2 H2020 projects coordinated and ongoing
8 FP7 projects where we partnered, now completed
3 H2020 projects where we are partner, ongoing
1 Marie Curie ITN where we partner
EU FP7
EU H2020
EU Marie Curie
Completed
On-Going
Coordinator 3 2 1
Partner 8
These projects have helped advance IES’s existing commercial offering, create new offerings and increasing the growth and revenue for the company

6. IES VISION AND STRATEGY
One analysis platform
Designed for all the different stakeholders
Integrated Collaboration
Used throughout design and operation
WE CAN THEN USE IES SCAN TO OPTIMISE THE BUILDINGS IN USE, ENSURE ANY CHANGES ARE PERFORMING AS THEY WERE DESIGNED AND ENSURE THE BUILDING/CITY IS PERFORMING TO ITS MAXIMUM POTENTIAL

7. IES vision- the ICL
Utility integration
IES ICL is a single analysis platform to help create, plan, evaluate and manage resource efficient, Resilient, low carbon emissions, sustainable, healthy communities

8. R&D helped to shape the ICL
Portfolio/
Community
Information
Model
Scottish Enterprise CitySUMS
TSB MIRIAM
GLASGOW FUTURE CITIES
H2020 ENTRUST
Intelligent
Operation
and Utility
Integration
Masterplan
and Urban
Design
FP7 iUrban
IUK CEDISON
IDM:
Intelligent
Data
Model
FP7 INDICATE
FP7 FASUDIR
FP7 CI-NERGY
H2020 IMPRESS
Building
Operation &
Intelligent
Control
New Design
and Retrofit
Scottish Enterprise: SCAN
TSB THERM
CIP VERYSCHOOL
FP7 Energy in Time
FP7 REEMAIN
FP7 EINSTEIN
H2020 STREAM-OD
IMPACT AND HONE
TSB OPTIMISE
TSB IMPACT
FP7 UMBRELLA & EASEE
H2020 4RinEU
H2020 NewTREND

9. Building energy efficient retrofit -UMBRELLA
Enables total cost plus ROI and payback calculations on simulations selected
KPIs for energy consumption and carbon savings
First European Project written and coordinated by IES
The functionalities developed in UMBRELLA are now part of IES commercial offering (HONE tool)

10. A Virtual Resource Network- iURBAN
Different utility object i.e. other ESB substation in Dundalk. Different electricity network outside DKIT campus e.g. town centre, commercial zone, etc.
It is identified there is no renewable generation embedded at building level on DKIT Campus.
Created a completely new technology to support the modeling of energy and resource networks at urban scale, interact with utilities and design microgrids
Wind Turbine (blue)
Electrical Storage (red)
Total Site Demand (brown)

11. Masterplanning tools- INDICATE
First prototype of masterplanning tool, collaboration with ESRI, a key player in the market of urban scale tools (CityEngine software)

12. Main benefits for the company Long Term Collaboration
Development of New Tools
Long Term Collaboration
Entry into New Markets
New Knowledge
Step Forward for Dynamic Simulation Modelling
Confidence to Enter New Markets

13. For example… EXPLORE A NEW MARKET
FP7 project REEMAIN- see how IES technology, usually applied to the built environment could be applied to manufacturing, working with demo factories in Spain, Turkey and Italy
IMPROVE AND EXTEND THE CURRENT OFFERING
FP7 project iURBAN- see how IES simulation capabilities can be applied to analyse, manage, plan and optimise resource networks across a city
This led to the development of a tool which is currently exploited in consultancy projects
GETTING NEW SKILLS
Marie Curie ITN CiNERGY- use machine learning algorithms to predict the energy use across similar buildings in a city
IES sponsored a PhD on this topic, hopefully staying in IES afterwards
Don’t use ‘troll’…investigate

14. Why we should continue EU collaborative research
internationalization of Scottish companies
Helps explore new markets
Helps consolidate market position
Allows to get new skills, exchange knowledge
Supports Scottish companies in innovating
Creates commercial networks
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15. Thank you
Dr. Valeria Ferrando