The challenge for this European project (under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research - FP7) is to implement the gas absorption heat pump technology in the area of single-family detached residential homes. One of the most important international research projects in the area of climate change and energy efficiency applied to the built environment, which also falls under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) promoted by the European Community. What is even more important is the goal of designing heat pumps that can be installed in the existing buildings stock to improve the heating efficiency (49% of the overall energy consumption in terms of primary energy, and 36% of greenhouse-gas emissions).
15 among the most important European organizations in the energy, industrial, and research fields are involved in such project, namely Robur – which is also the project coordinator, - Pininfarina, ENEA, Polytechnic University of Milan, D’Appolonia and CF Consulting from Italy; Bosch Thermotechnology, E.ON and the Fraunhofer Institute research centre from Germany; GDF Suez and Gas Reseau Distribution France from France. The consortium also includes UK-based British Gas, the Polish Flowair, and the two Slovenian companies Primorje and ZAG.
