The diffusion plan of PSE-ARFRISOL is structurated in three stages, as follows:

3.1. Development of Building Design guidelines. Using the final results of this project, two different guides will be developed:

3.1.1. New office buildings construction guidelines. The conditioning strategies tested during the project will lead to new office building design guidelines. This task will be done in collaboration with architects and other research groups.

3.1.2. Extend this study to other kind of buildings. The results of this project will be employed to develop new design guidelines in other areas: residential and non­residential (such as hospitals, shopping centers, etc.).

3.2. Development of systematic knowledge concerning energy efficiency in buildings. This task will be done regarding two complementary aspects:

3.2.1. Development of sets of educational resources, according to different knowledge levels. The know-how reached during the PSE-ARFRISOL project will be transposed directly to the different educational levels: Primary school, high school and university. The teachers of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF) will lead this task,
together with architects, engineers and scientists. Complete sets of courses and educational resources -“Didactic Units”- will be developed according to the current pedagogical view of education. These documents, then, will be adaptable enough to the different educational levels existing in the society.

3.2.2. Development of diffusion documents for the rest of the society. A complete marketing campaign will be launched to change the people’s state of mind. This change will be held in a joint collaboration with public institutions such Town Halls or Regional Governments. This effort will be useful to support further actuations in the energy efficiency area. This task involves showing the Bioclimatic strategies in science festivals and other similar public events. The PSE-ARFRISOL team has got a interactive scale model manufactured to explain to the public how every strategy works in this kind of buildings. In addition, PSE — ARFRISOL will be presented in round tables, scientific conferences and congresses to communicate the final results. The aim of these actuations is to influence the public opinion and specially the construction sector.

4. CONCLUSION

After four years of investigation in the ARFRISOL project, the pursued results are:

— The five RDBP of this project will be singular buildings in the design and the solar heating and cooling systems.

— The constructions will have a high energy efficiency, with a saving of conventional energy between 80 and 90%. These data will be backed up by the monitoring of the building and the analyse of the energetic data collected.

— The solar devices and systems (like solar thermal collectors, absorption pumps and photovoltaic panels) used in the RDBP will be optimised for a reduced use of energy. In case that the system optimisation process produced any new development, it would be patented for marketing.

— The diffusion of the results will be carried out at different levels: from childhood (with educationals guidelines) to adult age (news, science festivals…) and into society (newspaper, tv, radio, etc.). The guidelines will be developed in educational modules that will be checked and validated in several schools chosen by sampling.

The final result would be to achieve a reduction of the conventional energy used for heating and cooling because of having changed the society mind. This goal is not only applicable to offices buildings but also to any kind of construction.

5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This work has been supported by funds of the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science (MICINN). The authors would like to thank the press office of CIEMAT for the given help it. Also the Energy Efficiency of Building R&D Unit — CIEMAT would like to thank all the companies and Institutions included in PSE-ARFRISOL project.

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