Innlandet Fylkeskommune is establishing its own climate lab to provide students in secondary education with a living classroom experience.
Innlandet municipality is establishing its own climate lab to provide students in upper secondary education with a "living classroom" where they can try out technology in various applications, including solar cells, heat pumps, hydrogen cars, wind turbines, heat exchangers, and now also technology from us at Sensor Innovation.
Teacher Kjell Arne Hole at Nord-Gudbrandsdal Upper Secondary School believes it's crucial for students to learn about and explore future technologies and energy sources. This knowledge equips them well for their future careers.
– Through the climate lab at our school, we get "a living classroom" where the students themselves can research and test out the innovative products. It is a prerequisite that the students get familiar with this and is also part of their curriculum. In addition, the school day becomes much more interesting when we offer them practical tasks similar to the everyday life they will encounter in the workforce.
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– As for the products from Sensor Innovation, we have opened an outer wall with various insulation materials and the use of various vapor/diffusion barriers to show the students how moisture behaves in a building in different seasons with different types and qualities of materials. We find it very important to teach about sustainability, and material choices such as various insulation materials are important for students to learn about both in terms of sustainable manufacturing processes of the materials and how they behave in use. For example, insulation in wood fiber and cellulose are exciting products to work with. Sensor Innovation's technology provides us with live images, condition monitoring of the construction, and we see the impact of external climate data at all times. Examples of the data include temperature change, relative humidity, moisture, and wood moisture. Through this, the students see how the building construction evolves throughout the year and we can demonstrate how mold and rot damage are formed and developed in the building construction.
Finally, Kjell Arne tells us that he has been in the carpentry profession for 33 years and still finds the profession very enjoyable. Especially at a school that gives students the opportunity to engage in research and experimentation with what is coming into the market.
– It's very nice with Sensor Innovation, which has a forward-looking product, understands construction, and most importantly, they often drop by when passing by and give us some tips and advice.
We extend a big thank you to Innlandet Municipality for giving us the opportunity to contribute to ensuring that future students have access to future solutions.