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Crossflex: Concept and Early Development of a True Building Integrated Wind Turbine

This paper is the culmination of a series of research projects that investigated the use of wind turbine in urban environments. The context is the development of renewable energy in buildings in meeting UK and International targets for climate change, in particular energy generation on buildings. The work, originally funded by a Scottish Executive SMART award (£70,000), attracted further funding, including 2 KTTBE awards (Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Built Environment) part of Scottish Executive’s SEEKIT programme to promote R&D and knowledge/technology transfer between SMEs and HEI’s. It was undertaken in collaboration with Gordon Proven, an international pioneer in this field and was his last publication before his death in 2011. The paper describes the design development of a wind turbine that can be integrated technically and visually onto buildings. The research resulted in: 1. publications (Proceedings of the 2nd World Wind Energy Conference, Cape Town, South Africa November 2003 ISBN 0-9584663-9-4). 2. Grant-assisted pilot installation on the Newberry Tower, in Glasgow (the first city centre installation in Scotland) the subject of a paper to the 24th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture 2007, Singapore, 22-24 November 2007 “Technical Feasibility of Erecting a Wind Turbine on a High-rise Building” - this project has been selected for monitoring in the Energy Savings Trust micro wind field trials. 3. Publications including: Visual And Physical Integration In Building Mounted Wind Turbines – An Alternative Approach. In: Paths to Sustainable Energy. Intech, pp. 279-300. ISBN 978-953-307-401-6 (4439 downloads); Building Mounted Wind Turbines on Existing Multi-Storey Housing. Open House International: housing and the built environment : theories,tools and practice. , 33 (3). pp. 60-69. ISSN 0168-2601; Technical Feasibility Of Erecting A Wind Turbine On A High Rise Building. In: Proceedings of the 10th World Renewable Energy Congress, July 2008, Glasgow, UK.