Wireless Friendly Energy Efficient Buildings

This project’s objectives are to develop and verify the new concept of the wireless friendly, energy efficient building. The wireless propagation properties of building and insulation materials must be assessed. The same properties must be measured for building structures such as walls (internal and external), floors, facades and window systems. These properties will be evaluated from 400 MHz to 20 GHz to include both current and future wireless networks and systems. A significant part of this project is the development and optimisation of CAD tools that combine wireless propagation models with energy efficiency models producing a complete model for the built environment. New innovative construction materials such as glass and steel fibre reinforcement will be studied and new architectural designs investigated to improve wireless signal propagation while maintaining energy efficiency.