Conference on Advanced Building Skins

05-06 November 2013, Bressanone, Italy

It is our pleasure to invite you to this year’s Conference 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.

Simultaneous translations into Italian and English will be available for all presentations.

The Sessions of this year's conference:

• Interactive, Adaptive and Dynamic Building Skins
• Building Integration of Solar Thermal Systems
• Integrating Photovoltaics into the Building Envelope (BIPV 1)
• Models and Tools for PV System Integration into the Building Envelope (BIPV 2)
• Building performance simulation for design and refurbishment
• Daylight Design, Simulation and Compliance for Solar Building Envelopes
• Solar Energy and Architecture: A way to achieve Zero Energy Buildings
• Refurbishment – Issues and Challenges
• Solar Concepts for Historic Buildings
• Evaluating Investments in Building Refurbishments
• Guided Tour of the Enzian Tower Bolzano (BIPV 3)

Scientific Conference Committee:

• Cinzia Abbate, AeV Architetti, Rome, Italy
• Marilyne Andersen, EPFL, Switzerland
• 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
• Eckhart Hertzsch, Project Manager 'City of the Future', Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, 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
• Stephen Wittkopf, Technology & Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 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. Participants who register by 30 June 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). There is a Shuttle bus to/from Munich Airport that runs five times a day. In addition, we have scheduled a shuttle bus to pick up conference participants at Munich Airport on 04 November at 11.00 am.

For more information including hotel accommodation in Bressanone, please visit our page “How to get there”.

Organizer:

ECONOMIC FORUM
Elisabethst. 91
D-80797 Munich, Germany
Tel +49 89-200 004-161
infoatta@economic-forumdotta.eu