ACE Inventor was selected in March 2025 for the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology's smart construction validation research programme, worth 120 million won over a period running to December 2025.

The scheme funds verification of completed technologies under field conditions — necessary in construction, where nothing is adopted without such data. Designers and contractors do not specify materials that carry no reliability record.

At the space provided on the institute's campus the company is measuring the performance of its lightweight and heating modules: how heating output, surface temperature, clearing time and power draw shift with ambient temperature, irradiance and snow depth.

The results become documents. An installation guide for low-load roofs and a set of test reports are the deliverables, and both feed straight into customer proposals and certification files.

ACE Inventor Inc., founded in November 2022, develops ultra-lightweight building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) modules. Its core technologies are a water-based hydrogel electrolyte membrane, electrophoretic large-area flexible electrode coating, and ultra-lightweight curved module design using FRP and ETFE composites. The company operates a 50 MW annual production line in Paltan-myeon, Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, and holds KS C 8577 BIPV module certification together with ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001. Its patent portfolio includes seven registered Korean patents and one registered US patent, with 23 applications filed in Korea and abroad. Contact info@aceivt.com · www.aceivt.com

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