The Information Technology Group for Heritage Documentation is collaborating on a national project that can be used in the energy rating of buildings.
Tidop, the Information Technology Group for Heritage Documentation at USAL, headed by Professor Diego González Aguilera, is participating in the national Ensmart project, designed to develop three-dimensional energy mapping of cities. “The truth is that one of the greatest energy losses is found in the housing sector, especially in old or public buildings,” Professor González Aguilera begins to explain the reason for the project. “And the project aims to diagnose the energy loss in terms of facades or roofs,” points out one of the first objectives of the work. In this way, the information obtained from the three-dimensional energy map “will be used to prepare the energy rating through the programs authorized by the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE),” explains González Aguilera. In this phase of the development of the programme, in which the people of Avila are working together with three companies and the University of Vigo, an important step has been taken by having three vehicles specially equipped to take data on the thermal envelope of buildings, one of which travels through the streets of the cities while the other two take images from the air. They do this thanks to photographic and thermographic cameras whose work is spectacular on paper and which are derived from a table of heat loss in buildings. “This way, the problems can be quantified, checking whether more is being spent than necessary and deciding how to act, whether by installing double windows, new insulation…”, explains González Aguilera, the most practical part of the programme.
