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The numerical study was conducted in order to evaluate the potential energy savings achievable with such a facade and to evaluate different functional strategies and options. This paper briefly illustrates the ACTRESS MFM concept and its functional strategies, focusing on the simulation and the assessment of the performance of such a dynamic envelope. In the framework of a decade-long research activity on Advanced Integrated Facade, AIF, a new Multifunctional Facade Module called ACTRESS has been conceived: the ACTive, RESponsive and Solar envelope is designed to play different roles through its ability to change its thermo-physical behaviour in order to suit the different environmental conditions.

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The future building skin is required to be responsive and dynamic, actively regulating the flows of heat, light, air and water from outdoor to indoor and vice versa, in order to effectively respond to ever-changing climatic conditions, occupant comfort and energy efficiency requirements.

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For a full account of how these data are split into different categories within eachВ scope, please send a request to the Programme Lead.The growing demand for both building energy efficiency and indoor environmental comfort is leading to a substantial evolution of the traditional concept of the building envelope. AВ report can be found here please note our calculations have tended to overestimate our GHG emissions, particularly with journal distribution, when compared with this report. These data haveВ been verified by the UNFCCCВ Climate Neutral Now campaign, detailing our business travel, staff commuting, business meals and office energy consumption. By ensuring we operate with a 100% renewable tariff, we have already reduced our potential GHG emissions by this amount. For interest, we also calculated what our Scope 2 emissions would be if we were taking electricity directly from the grid this calculated to be 1.58 tCO 2e across the base year. This is likely to be an underestimation as exact distances were not recorded distances were calculated retrospectively using recorded addresses. Current and target greenhouse gas emissions for all three scopesД«usiness travel was calculated at 6.19 tCO 2e across the base year and is our biggest source of GHG emissions. We have also determined a location-based vs market-based approach of emissions under Scope 2. Given the available data, we have calculated our current emissions of Scope 3, as well as our target emissions based on a well below 2вЊ climate change scenario, which aims for a 2.5% reduction each recording year. As we are running our operations using a 100% renewable energy tariff, we do not produce GHG emissions under Scope 2, which includes our heating system (electric central heating), as there is no gas or fuel consumption in the property. Upon return to the office, we will begin collecting these data, which will allow us to rebase our targets for Scope 1. At the time of writing, we do not have sufficient data on our air conditioning units and refrigerator unit within the office we are producing Scope 1 GHG emissions but we cannot calculate these accurately at this stage. As part of this process and the ongoing reporting, we will endeavour to improve our data collection processes for these, and for the remaining 4 categories within our organisational and operational boundaries that we currently do not have sufficient data for. Of those within boundary, we have sufficient data to calculate an estimation of our current emissions and set targets for 6 categories. Whilst not an exhaustive list, the diagram below is indicative of the categories that the IES is accountable for within our organisational boundary. We are also very conscious of single-use plastics!

Several of our staff choose to commute to work by bike and none do so by private vehicle. We do not have any company-owned vehicles and encourage our staff, council and volunteers to use public transport where possible for business travel. We operate out of one main office, which uses a 100% renewable energy tariff and has no gas in the property, with electric central heating. We recycle as much as we can including our food, plastics and metals, ink cartridges and batteries, and we purchase second-hand and recycled goods over new products for office supplies and furniture. We do not own or control any processing or producing operations or facilities.

As a small team of 7 full-time staff and 2 part-time staff, our organisational boundary is relatively limited. We chose this period as it is the most recent time frame that affords us a full set of reliable data for as many categories as possible within our organisational and operational boundaries. We have set our baseline year to fall between April 2019 and March 2020.