PROJECT INFO

The ZEB Laboratory is a living office laboratory 4 stories high and 2000 m² located in Trondheim at the NTNU Gløshaugen campus, close to the existing laboratory facilities of SINTEF Community and NTNU Department of Civil and Transport Engineering.

The ZEB Laboratory is a full-scale office building where building façades, components and technical systems can be modified and replaced. The elements may furthermore be interconnected in such a way that they form a part of or a complete zero emission building. The building will form a living laboratory, i.e. a laboratory where people using it as an ordinary office building or for educational purposes becomes an experimental parameter giving variations in loads with their use of the premises.

Further, investigations and demonstration of new technologies in a full-scale office building is important to reduce risk for the first movers willing and starting to implement zero emission building levels in their building design and construction. The adaptability of the building/laboratory will make it possible to investigate different building configurations and types.

VISION

The vision of the Norwegian Zero Emission Building Laboratory (ZEB Laboratory) is to be an arena where new and innovative components and solutions are developed, investigated, tested and demonstrated.

The ZEB Laboratory shall

  • be a basis for knowledge development at an international level,

  • be a basis for international competitive industrial development,

  • be an example for new and retrofitted zero emission buildings,

  • be a research arena for developing zero emission buildings,

  • be an arena for risk reduction when implementing zero emission building technologies,

  • be a national resource for all research organisations in the research area,

  • be a tool for NTNU and SINTEF for institutionalizing the post ZEB Centre.

 

ZEB Lab will cooperate with and use other existing NTNU and SINTEF laboratory facilities, like the National Smart Grid Laboratory and building component laboratories.
Smart Grid
Building component laboratories

ZEB Laboratory
Visiting address: Høgskoleringen 13, Trondheim
Postal address: Att. SINTEF Community, P.O. Box 4760 Torgarden, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway

The research centre on zero emission buildings zeb lab