Call for Papers
ENERGY FORUM on Advanced Building Skins
05-06 November 2013, Bressanone, Italy
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 8th ENERGY FORUM on Advanced 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.
We would be happy to review your proposal and to include your presentation in our conference program or poster session.
Simultaneous translations into Italian and English will be available for all presentations.
Topics of the 8th ENERGY FORUM on Advanced Building Skins:
- Multifunctional Building Skins
- Intelligent and Adaptive Building Skins
- Evolving Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Technologies and Projects
- Enhanced Daylighting and Shading
- Holistic Concepts
- Building Concepts and Strategies for Plus Energy Houses
- Refurbishment Strategies for the Building Stock
- Solar Retrofitting: Methods, Products and Projects
- Performance Criteria for Building Envelopes
- Performance Metrics
- Life-Cycle Cost Assessment
- Models, Tools and Simulations for Solar Buildings
Who can apply:
Researchers, scientists and professionals, including architects, engineers, energy managers, urban planners and industry experts, are invited to submit papers for presentation.
How to apply:
We will accept proposals that are both “research” or “practice” orientated. Please send your proposal in either English or Italian and include the following information:
- Paper title plus titles of 3 sub-chapters (see the 2012 program for samples of sub-chapters)
- Author’s and co-author’s name, job title and organization; please underline the name of the speaker
- Phone number, email address and postal address
- Synopsis of 400 words (abstract) with 4 key words
- Brief Curriculum Vitae on page two of your proposal
Please put your contact information and the topic of your paper in your proposal AND your email. Proposals should be sent to proposals [at] energy-forum.com by March 20th 2013. All proposals will be peer-reviewed by four members of our scientific committee. Applicants will be notified by April 10th regarding the status of their submission with detailed instructions for preparing their final papers (i.e. a template in Word format) and suggestions for accommodation in Bressanone. Registration and payment of the reduced registration fee of 380 EUR are due by April 30th. Full papers must be received by June 15th and will be included in the conference documentation available in a printed version at the congress.
Those papers that are not admitted for presentation in plenary session will be considered for poster presentation. Poster presenters will present their projects during a two-minute talk in plenary session and are entitled to the reduced registration fee of 380 EUR. Posters will be published in the conference documentation.
Calendar ENERGY FORUM 2013:
- March 20: Deadline for submission of proposals
- April 10: Notification of submitters
- April 30: Registration deadline for speakers and poster presenters
- June 15: Submission of full manuscripts
- June 15: First announcement of the conference program
- July 15: Deadline for Poster submission
- Sep. 20: Second announcement of the conference program
- Oct. 15: Deadline for PowerPoint presentations
- Nov. 05-06: ENERGY FORUM
Scientific Conference Committee:
- Cinzia Abbate, AeV Architetti, Rome
- Marilyne Andersen, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Konrad Bergmeister, Director, Institute of Structural Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- 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, Freiburg, Germany - Eckhart Hertzsch, Project Manager and Research 'City of the Future', Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Stuttgart, Germany
- Andreas Karweger, General Manager, Economic Forum, Munich - Bolzano
- Dieter Moor, Excecutive Director, 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
- Stephen Wittkopf, Technology & Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Yigsaw Yohanis; School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Registration Fee:
The cost to participate at the ENERGY FORUM is €480 which includes all conference documentation, lunches and coffee breaks.
Early Registration:
Participants who register online by June 30th will receive a 20% discount.
How to get there:
The conference centre is located in the heart of Bressanone in northern Italy, close to the border with Austria. Bressanone has a train station for all trains travelling on the Innsbruck-Verona route. The nearest airport is Bolzano (distance 40 kilometers) which has several daily flights to and from Rome. The nearest international airports are Innsbruck (80 kilometers), Verona (190 km), Munich (260 km) and Milan (330 km). We will arrange a shuttle bus between Bressanone and the airports of Munich (pickup in the morning of 4th Nov) and Innsbruck (pickup in the evening of 4th Nov). In addition, there is a Shuttle bus to/from Munich Airport that runs five times a day.
For more information including hotel accommodation in Bressanone, please visit our page “How to get there”.
Organizer:
ECONOMIC FORUM
Elisabethstr. 91
D-880797 Munich, Germany
Tel +49 89-200 004-161
info [at] energy-forum.com
