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Final Update on the GeoFit Bordeaux Demo

The GeoFit Bordeaux demo is a retrofit geothermal installation realized in the scope of the GeoFit UE project. It deals with the installation of a geothermal system on a Bordeaux University building to reduce a part of the building gas consumption during the heating season and improve the cooling efficiency

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EUROPEAN GEOTHERMAL CONGRESS 2022, the final GEOFIT event! 

Last 17th to 21st October 2022, GEOFIT partners presented several conference papers during the European Geothermal Congress held in Berlin, Germany. This event, the largest geothermal congress in Europe, brought together the entire European geothermal sector and attracted many from outside the continent providing a varied public with a range

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Sustainability in the GEOFIT Project

As part of the GEOFIT project, we conducted a holistic sustainable study of the novel GSHP (Ground Source Heat Pump) concepts on energy efficient building retrofitting, which is taking into account environmental (LCA), economic (LCC) and social (S-LCA) aspects. LCA aspect LCA analysis was performed according to ISO 14040-44, using

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Works Started at the GEOFIT University of Galway Pilot

Construction started in early September at the lawn of the Alice Perry Engineering Building at the North Campus of the University of Galway (formerly the National University of Ireland Galway) after a long process that comprised an extensive analysis and design of the dual source OCHSNER heat pump providing hot

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Time to Wrap Up! GEOFIT Last General Assembly

Taking the advantage of the pending visit to the Irish pilot sites in Galway and Aran Islands, the GEOFIT consortium organized its last General Assembly last week, from 5th to 7th October, in the University of Galway. It was time to look back at all the work done in the

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GEOFIT Project participates in “Sustainable Places 2022” within the workshop: “RHC Solutions for Buildings and Industry – 3rd Edition”

Renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling are safe, clean, efficient and increasingly cost-competitive. In its vision 2050 prospective document, the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling – RHC ETIP – envisions that 100% renewable energy-based heating and cooling (100% RHC) in Europe is possible by 2050. This workshop

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GEOFIT EXTERNAL TRAININGS SOON!

September & October 2022 The EU-funded project GEOFIT is an integrated industrially driven action aimed to deploy cost-effective enhanced geothermal systems on energy-efficient building retrofitting. Upon the completion of the pilots, it is time to present and share the results, and bring all the experience accumulated to potential stakeholders. GEOFIT

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GEOFIT at the GeoTHERM Expo & Congress 2022

GEOFIT was one of the exhibitors at the GeoTHERM, held on June 2nd & 3rd, 2022, in Offenburg (Germany). This expo & congress represents one of the final dissemination and exploitation actions of the project, which will end October this year. GEOFIT showcased its main innovations, from heat exchangers and heat

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