The "Sun Ship": PlusEnergy building by Rolf Disch SolarArchitecture, Freiburg, Germany
© Rolf Disch SolarArchitectureIn February 2009, the Research Council of Norway assigned The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to host the Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB), which is one of eight new national Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME). The main objective of the FME-centres is to contribute to the development of good technologies for environmentally friendly energy and to raise the level of Norwegian expertise in this area. In addition, they should help to generate new industrial activity and new jobs. The centres have been selected primarily on the basis of the scientific merit of their research, and their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate innovation and value creation. The Research Council of Norway has been responsible for selection. Over the next eight years, the FME-Centre ZEB will develop competitive products and solutions for existing and new buildings that will lead to market penetration of zero emission buildings related to their production, operation and demolition.