Projects

In order to optimize the energy consumption of the Vienna Airport, a simulation model is being created that will transform Vienna Airport into a virtual model city. Vienna Airport comprises around 100 properties in which 20,000 people work in hotels, offices, shops, terminals, logistics companies and many other areas. The power consumption is comparable to the consumption of the city of Klagenfurt. The insights gained from the simulations of the virtual airport city serve as a strategic basis for decision-making. The goal is to sustainably reduce energy consumption and improve the CO2-balance as well as to avoid planning mistakes that would only become noticeable in real operation. The virtual visualization model is developed in the simlab.

The project is a cooperation between the following TU Wien partner institutes:

• Faculty of Civil Engineering – Institute of Building Construction and Technology – Research Division of Building Physics and Sound Protection (E206-02) (project lead)
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology – Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives (E370)
• Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering – Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics (E302)

External cooperation partner:

• Schöberl & Pöll GmbH, Institute of Building Research & Innovation ZT-GmbH

For further info please visit:
https://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/124830/

As a road/rail/air transport hub, Graz Airport and it surroundings offer an ideal opportunity to embed thematic principles of sustainable development such as building and spatial organisation, conservation of resources, sustainable energy supply, quality of life, noise reduction, economic balance and good governance into the planning process and test them out for the first time for potential further application in other projects.
The airport environment is thus transformed into a transparent, interconnected, controllable and resilient location – the so-called SmartAIRea, where the key emphasis is on sustainable design and a space planned around people and their needs. Modelling and simulation are essential tools for the planning of a resilient location of this kind, providing a basis for communication that allows all the necessary stakeholders to be brought together around one table. For this research project both an analogue and a digital model were developed at the SimLab (see images).

This project was elaborated with Joanneum Research Graz LIFE - Centre for Climate, Energy and Society and Energie Steiermark.

The research project SIMULTAN addresses questions about the city of the future with a view to planning sustainable, liveable cities of tomorrow. The goal is to produce a workable tool, in the form of software to support the planning and decision-making process, which will allow experts from various disciplines to jointly design, optimise, build and operate building complexes. The City of Vienna serves as a case study, providing a concrete space in which to develop the methodology and concrete data with which to validate the models. The simlab platform allows highly complex processes to be translated into visual form for the respective experts. This supports and facilitates communication among the participants in planning and decision-making processes. Developing various planning scenarios, modelling them in combination with big data from the various urban energy systems and visualizing the results allows interventions in complex networks to be tested in terms of their impact on the overall system before being implemented in practice.

The project is a cooperation between the following TU Wien partner institutes:

• Faculty of Civil Engineering - Institute of Building Construction and Technology - Research Division of Building Physics and Sound Protection (E206-02) (project lead)
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives (E370)
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives - Energy Economics Group (E370-3)
• Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics (E302)
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - Telecommunications (E389)
• Faculty of Architecture and Planning - Department of Spatial Planning -  Sociology (E280-6)
• Faculty of Informatics - Institute of Information Systems Engineering - Research Division of Distributed Systems (E194-02)

External cooperation partners:

• Wiener Stadtwerke Holding GmbH
• Schöberl & Pöll GmbH
• Vasko & Partner / Gebäudetechnik

This project is funded by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and implemented under the "Stadt der Zukunft" program (3rd call) within a proposal of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).