• SAIE Bari 2019

    Alfonsina Di Fusco will be at SAIE Bari 2019 to talk about LIFE-HEROTILE project and the software SENSAPIRO

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  • ECOMONDO 2019

    Mario Cunial will present the project at ECOMONDO 2019

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  • THE FIRST 2 EPD OF THE BRICK INDUSTRY

    The Italian brick industry joins the database of products with EPDItaly Environmental Declaration

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  • MARIO CUNIAL VIDEO INTERVIEW


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  • TBE CONGRESS 2018

    21 – 22 June 2018
    Gdańsk, Poland

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  • Life-Herotile Mock up in Yeruham

    19 – 23 April 2018
    Yeruham, Israel

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  • LIFE HEROTILE

    High Energy savings in building cooling by ROof TILEs shape optimizationLIFEHEROTILE toward a better above sheathing ventilation

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SENSAPIRO

for predicting the energy performance of different roof configurations

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

LIFE HEROTILE aims to improve the energy behavior of the buildings through the development of innovative types of roof tiles able to increase their underlay ventilation.

Thanks to technologies and systems suitable for being replicated, transferred or mainstreamed, the project will contribute therefore to the development and implementation of energy savings approaches, mainly at Mediterranean Region, and to climate change mitigation.

  • Two pilot plants

    to produce two new types of roof tiles with a shape characterized by a higher air permeability through the overlap of the tiles, and then a better energy performances by passive disposal of the solar radiation through under-tile ventilation

  • Two real scale test buildings

    with seven different roofs each, will be made to test new tile performances in two different location (one outside EU) and two demonstrator buildings located in Mediterranean regions have been chosen to test and quantify benefits of new tiles

  • A practical and simplified software

    for architects and technicians, able to predict the energy performance of different roof configurations. The software will be free-license.

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10% Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, (South Europe), equal to an absolute (Yearly) value of 1.5 Mt_CO2/year

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50% Carbon footprint of building space cooling in comparison with standard pitched roof, equal to
an absolute (Yearly) value of 150 g_CO2/kWhe

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5% Reduction of air pollution, (South Europe), equal to an absolute (Yearly) value of 0.1 Mt_PM2.5/year and of 1.0 Mt_NOx/year

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5% Reduction of electrical power for air conditioning in urban area, equal to an absolute (Yearly) value of 25 kW/ha

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25% Reduction of maximum under-tile air temperature

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30% Increase under-tile yearly average air velocity

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50% Reduction under-tile maximum radiation

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50% Reduction of specific cooling power of novel solution, equal to an absolute (Yearly) value of 2.3 W/m3

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50% Reduction of equivalent heat transmittance of a vented roof (equivalent U-value), equal to an absolute (Yearly) value of 0.25W/(m2 K).