3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
erection and deployment of "mobile infrastructure and habitats" on a large-scale, similar to the
way refugee camps and front line military outposts are set up. In the future, resiliency has to
also include infrastructure and habitats that can be distributed, decentralized, and modular, to
facilitate dismantlement, shipment, and reassembly in new locations.
We also need to develop a more sophisticated approach to integrating infrastructure, human
habitats, and living patterns with the complex dynamics that animate the evolution of natural
ecosystems, learning from the approaches to short-term and long-term resiliency that evolve in
natural ecosystems as guides to future human development patterns. This will require focusing
greater attention on stigmergic self-organization, emergence, and complexity theory in
modeling the liquid infrastructures and habitats of the future.
An important step toward transforming Luxembourg’s building stock into nodes connected to
the Internet of Things platform is the development of education and training. Education and
training should be implemented in all the education layers, and the basic education programs
of the future generations should consider specific courses on energy strategy and “IntenCities”
objectives.
The building sector is a core element of the TIR roadmap. Buildings are responsible for 40% of
energy consumption and 36% of CO 2 emissions in the EU. 110 Buildings are durable and play an
important role in the economy as investment and property. They allow privacy and define
public spaces between them and they are key elements forming a city. In the past, buildings
often provided only a room to be protected against the weather, with low thermal and other
comfort. In the future, buildings will provide optimal comfort through intelligent and efficient
design and infrastructure as well as ICT systems, which can read the needs of the occupants and
provide a comfortable environment. The buildings will be equipped with a high number of
sensors and intelligent control systems gathering data, which enable the HVAC system to
provide: fresh air at the right temperature depending on the oxygen demand; perfect light
combining daylight and the light spectrum adapted to the needs of the occupants; as well as
highly efficient use of heat, cold, and electricity, energy generation on the façades and the roof
via solar systems and an optimal connection to ICT services for entertainment, information,
communication, and education. Additional services include personal health assistance and
supplementary childcare support.
With the the Third Industrial Revolution, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is aiming to actively
prepare and stimulate the transformation process in the building sector. In 2015, the total
energy demand for heating was 5,723 GWh in the residential sector. 111 Taking into account the
110 See: http://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/energy-efficiency/buildings
111 STATEC projection 2015. Delivered to TIR Consulting Group in January 2016.
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