Tanja Zimmermann, member of Empa’s Board of Directors, and KICT President Seung Heon Han with the signed MoU, surrounded by representatives of both institutions. Photo: KICT
Empa and the Korean Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) are committed to working together for a sustainable and networked society. The joint research activities will focus on smart buildings and the sustainable use of natural resources and energy. Global challenges call for global cooperation: By signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology 2019 in Vienna, Empa and KICT declared their intention to launch joint research efforts in the coming months. The focus will be on issues such as: What role do buildings play in a sustainable energy system? How does the construction industry counter the scarcity of resources' How must our building stock react to demographic change? These and similar questions are of equal concern to both institutes. Both KICT and Empa do not limit themselves to research activities, but try to implement new ideas as fast as possible in demonstration buildings and platforms. On the Empa campus in Dübendorf, the research and innovation building NEST , the energy research platform Energy Hub (ehub) , the mobility demonstrator move and the digital equivalent of these three demonstrators - the Digital Hub (dhub) - have been established in recent years. At the same time, the Modular House and the Zero Energy House were built at KICT.
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