Study on the Potential of Converting Former Military Bunkers into Energy Storage Facilities
Building a sustainable future calls for a strong re-evaluation of energy production and consumption patterns. With the release of the so called energy concept in 2010, the German government has made a clear commitment to sustainability, by officially anticipating a future energy supply system depending almost exclusively on renewable energy and utterly turning away from fossil energy carriers. The remodeling process involved will take decades and a number of defined issues are yet to be solved. Among others, dealing with the fluctuation of renewable forms of energy, such as sun and wind power, is one of the key challenges. Apart from the extension of the power grid, it is inevitable to provide capacities for energy storage to face this problem. These are able to buffer times when energy production exceeds or falls beneath the current demand. A more or less unnoticed approach is the possibility of reactivating unused building complexes to serve as medium scale storage units, in this case former military bunkers going back to the Second World War and the Cold War. Altogether about 3000 of these facilities still exist in Germany, of which many are vacant to the present day inter alia because their specifications dont match the requirements of residential or office use. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to take effort in finding solutions to preserve these buildings since demolition is an elaborate task when dealing with walls up to three meters thick. Apart from that, the construction of new buildings can be prevented, which results in less energy consumption. The research covers the historical background of the bunkers in Germany and continues by defining relevant bunker types using cluster analysis. Finally, these bunker types are evaluated in terms of how their structural properties fit the requirements of two selected systems of energy storage.
conversion military bunker energy saving
Joachim SCHULZE
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
国际会议
2017世界可持续建筑环境大会(the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference)
香港
英文
387-393
2017-06-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）