3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
amounting to the equivalent of 60% of the world’s existing building stock. 192 Visually, imagine
another Empire State Building being built every 40 minutes for the next 15 years.
Designing, fabricating, and assembling smart buildings, and measuring real-time operating
performance data of the inventory of energy-consuming smart devices (building shell, lights,
appliances, electric motors, and onsite power and storage systems) begin with industrial
manufacturing.
The TIR architectural design features, construction components, and smart technologies open
up vast new opportunities for Luxembourg industry. For example, Luxembourg’s Guardian
Industries are using advanced manufacturing processes like chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to
lay down nano-scale thin films on ‘smart glass.’ This is just one building shell (and vehicle)
component providing valuable climate-adaptive energy efficiency benefits (heating and cooling
control, natural daylight). Within the next 4 years the global smart glass market is projected to
grow to half a billion square meters per year valued at € 53 billion. In addition to smart glass,
the global market for building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is projected to exceed € 5 billion
by 2022. In addition to glass, Dupont Luxembourg has a long record of success of promoting a
line of building envelope and construction system products used in green and sustainable
certified buildings.
The Internet of Things makeover of industrial electric drive systems (motors, pumps,
compressors fans) and heat processes, presents another massive global market opportunity for
cutting-edge industrial and manufacturing companies. Embedding the industrial electric drive
equipment with wireless smart sensor networks enables delivering Big Data for real-time
continuous analytic visualization and automated control by rapid response intelligent
algorithms. Intelligent factory operations deliver multiple benefits including energy and
resource savings, reduced waste, improved product quality, reduced down time, lower capital
and operating expenditures, and reductions in emissions and pollution. They are also integral to
advancing circular economy outcomes.
Half of all the electricity in the world is consumed by industrial electric drive system
components, and over 60% in countries like China. Integrated design and installation of highperformance
components can achieve 50+% savings in new installations at or near zero net
cost, and 30+% savings in retrofits with a levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) as low as several
cents per kWh. China is pursuing large “efficiency power plants” (EFFs) based on this market
transformation potential, aggregating industrial and manufacturing sector retrofits, as in
192 Ed Mazria, Architecture 2030, ROADMAP TO ZERO EMISSIONS, June 4, 2014, submission to Durban Platform for
Enhanced Action; citing and Adapted from, Dobbs, Richard. Insights & Publications. 06-2012.
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