Partnering for Innovation

Thomas Lipinski, CTO

Our Street Cred

Best Innovation in Energy Management, Innovation & Sustainability Awards: Winner

Best UK CleanTech Company, 2011 CleanTech Open: 2 out of top 10

Sustainable Innovation Award 2011 (CIOB): Winner

Architecture Innovation Award 2011 (CIOB): Winner

Environment & Energy Awards 2011: Finalist

Construction News Awards 2011: Finalist

Best Retrofit Innovation, Retrofit Awards 2010: Winner

Best Retrofit, Retrofit Awards 2010: Highly commended

Award for best innovative sustainable construction product, Ecobuild 2010

Environmental Best Practice Green Apple Awards 2009: Bronze Winner

Environmental Best Practice Green Apple Awards 2009: Gold Winner

Best Builder and Developer International Green Apple Awards 2009 : Gold

Built Environment & Architectural Heritage, International Green Apple Awards 2009: Green Champion

Best Sustainable Building The Sustainable City Awards 2009: Winner

Best Eco Project FX Magazine International Design Awards 2009: Finalist

Best Carbon Reduction Project Environmental Excellence Awards 2008: Winner

99% Campaign Award for Refurbishment Building Magazine Sustainability Awards 2008: Runner up

Green Structures; an SME CleanTech incubator

We work within the Built Environment area covering:

• Design of Energy Saving Products & Systems (Ventive, the Passive Heat Recovery Ventilation)

• Development of Energy Efficient Technologies (Thermal Accumulator, Passive Cooling)

• Sustainable Architecture (Passive Space, Passive Loft, Zero Carbon Dwellings)

• Modelling & Prototyping of Modern Built Environment Innovations (Low Energy Heating & Cooling, “RoboSquirt”)

• Design of New Construction Methodologies (Passive Adaptive Building, Thermal Memory House)

How does it work?

• We identify a distinct need for a new solution

• We work out an ideal future scenario, what would users, installers and others want from it?

• We work out the market size for the innovation (e.g. Ventive - £400M per annum for new build and £2BN for retrofit markets from 2013)

• We back engineer from the ideal end product identifying development steps

• We apply for and secure appropriate part funding

• We conceptualise, design, prototype, simulate and test the end product

How does it work?

• We apply for a number of patents covering the technology

• We identify development/commercialisation partners & collaborate

• We set up spinouts in order to bring products to market & seek investment

How does it work?

Collaborative R&D (KTA)

Innovation Awards for Collaborative R&D

The University of Sheffield has launched `Building for the Future´ program with 10 Innovation Awards made available to initiate Collaborative R&D projects and give SMEs access to cutting edge research expertise and facilities.

Projects are business-led and aim to develop innovative products, processes or technology in the area of `Building for the Future´.

Green Structures won 2 Collaborative R&D Innovation Awards: Thermal Accumulator & On-demand Solar CHP

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) is the temporary storage of high or low temperature energy for later use.

Some say that Energy Storage Market is to hit $500BN by 2030

Sounds familiar?

“Incubator is a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship providing office and laboratory space early-stage businesses who can take advantage of being in close proximity to eminent scientists and experts in technology.” Or not? Out of the largest top 10 companies set up in the last decade, which one is the University spinout? How about the top 50?

GS & Collaborative Joint Ventures

Incubators redefined, University spin-ins as opposed to University spin-outs?

Robotics 4 Retrofitting is a CleanTech start-up resulting from partnership between Imperial College London, Imperial Innovations & Green Structures.

Energy-Unplugged

tom@greenstructures.co.uk

Ventive

thEnergy

“Robo-Squirt”