It is our pleasure to invite you to this year’s ENERGY FORUM on Solar Building Skins. The main objective of the conference is to contribute to a multidisciplinary, integrated planning approach to sustainable buildings, and to create a dialogue among architects, engineers, scientists, energy managers and manufacturers with the aim of reducing energy consumption while improving the comfort and health of building occupants.
The conference will explore strategies for saving energy and will present new ways of integrating renewable energy technologies into multifunctional building elements to achieve affordable netzero and green buildings.
Simultaneous translations into Italian and English will be available for all presentations.
The Sessions of this year's ENERGY FORUM:
Day 1, 6th December 2012
Session 1: Adaptive Building Skins
Session 2: Evolving Solar Technologies
Session 3: Enhanced Daylighting and Shading
Session 4: Strategies for Optimizing Semi-transparent PV: Performance and Cost Considerations
Day 2, 7th December 2012
Session 5: Holistic Concepts for Solar Buildings
Session 6: Solar Retrofitting
Session 7: Models, Tools and Simulations for Solar Buildings
Session 8: Natural Ventilation and Thermal Behavior of the Building Envelope
Scientific Conference Committee:
Marilyne Andersen, EPFL, Switzerland
Livio de Santoli, Faculty of Architecture, La Sapienza University, Rome
Michael Garrison, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Hans-Martin Henning, Head of Thermal Systems and Buildings, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany
Andreas Karweger, General Manager, Economic Forum, Munich - Bolzano
Dieter Moor, Ertex-Solar, Austria
Wolfram Sparber, Director, Department of Renewable Energies, European Academy, Bolzano, Italy
Mitsuhiro Udagawa¸ President Japanese Solar Energy Society; Department of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Japan
Bernhard Weller, Institute for Construction, TU Dresden, Germany
Stephen Wittkopf, Technology & Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
Yigsaw Yohanis, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, United Kingdom