EENSULATE demonstration sites

Hosted by the ancient monastery of the Frati Minori Osservanti, once annexed to the church of San Giovanni Battista (one of Pesaro’s most beautiful architectural works) and planned by the Della Rovere family’s architect Girolamo Genga, the library San Giovanni is an example where the historical (the façade facing the access street) and contemporary architecture elements coexists. Those elements are a large windowed eyelet for the lighting of the public spaces and a curtain walling façade in the building's main entrance. The building acted as a demo for testing EENSULATE glass in one window of the historical façade. Although Pesaro municipality is not a project partner, they made this building available as a demonstration case of the EENSULATE project.

The intervention was done by implementation of EENSULATE glass based on VIG (Vacuum Insulated Glass) technology in a door window located in an area of the building organized at an open space hosting a kid library. The VIG was installed directly in the original frame of the door window, minimizing the work carried out as well as the waste of material. The simple substitution of the glass part of the door window with a high insulating VIG increases the thermal insulation of the window system with a consequent benefit for the visitors. The door window is composed of two parts, the above one is fixed (without the possibility of opening) and the bottom part is an emergency door exit leading directly outside the building.

The Polish school resides in a curtain wall building which the Dzierżoniów municipality aims to refurbish to improve the façade performances. The EENSULATE renovation intervention consisted of introducing glazing curtain walls to enhance the building profile to zero energy in line with EU and national targets for public buildings. After the implementation of EENSULATE solutions, the building was a demo case proving the project results to both national and international stakeholders and enhancing the image of Dzierżoniów municipality.

The renovation intervention consisted of the full substitution of the curtain wall façade (including frame) of the school building. The selected façade was one of three façades of the building. The refurbished building area is organized as an open- space where students spend their free time during breaks. In order to compare the performances of the project-developed solution, two floors of the building façade were partially covered by EENSULATE modules with VIGs and the rest by the same module using standard TGU (Triple Glass Unit) in the frame.