Conference Program ENERGY FORUM 2011
Day 2, 7th December 2011
Opening:
08:30 Helmut Hohenstein, Dr. Hohenstein Consultancy, Prien, Germany
08:45 Albert Pürgstaller, Mayor of the City of Bressanone
Session 5: Affordability and Marketability of Plus Energy Houses -
An Economic Evaluation of Solar Decathlon Concepts
Chairman: Helmut Hohenstein, Dr. Hohenstein Consultancy, Germany
09:15 Designing a flexible net-zero energy house at reduced life-cycle costs
- Architectural integration of high performance renewable energy systems
- Efficiency through affordable active and passive systems
- Making renewables affordable
- Life-cycle economics
James Russell, Dep. of Technology & Environmental Design, Appalachian State University, USA
09:40 Market strategies for solar architecture
- New Zealand’s entry to the Solar Decathlon 2011
- Value propositions of solar powered houses
- Affordability and energy performance
Tobias Danielmeier, School of Architecture, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
10:05 Building a functioning, marketable, solar-powered house
- Marketability supplements: energy consumption, energy collection, energy production
- Marketability report for a double skin system
Edgar Stach, College of Architecture & Design, University of Tennessee, USA
10:30 Poster Session 4: Holistic Concepts for Solar Buildings
An energy-plus-house strategy applied to a Solar Decathlon house
- Life-cycle cost and environmental impact assessments
- Semi-passive air cooling system using phase change materials
- Cogeneration system with a solar concentrator
Stephanie Armand Decker, Nobatek, France
Sustainable architecture at low cost
- Optimizing daylighting and shading with computer simulations
- Natural ventilation system
- Low construction and maintenance costs
Rodrigo Carazo, Universidad del Diseño, San Jose, Costa Rica
Habitable skins for comfort improvement in architecture
- Thermal comfort and subjective feelings
- Habitable skin: two case studies of existing buildings
- Involvement of unknown inhabitants, a practices pattern's approach
Daniel Estevez, Architectural Research Laboratory, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture, Toulouse, France
10:45 Poster Session continued and Coffee Break
Session 6:
Natural Ventilation and Thermal Behaviour of the Building Envelope
Chairman: Mitsuhiro Udagawa, Department of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Japan
11:30 Façade’s design solutions for office buildings with natural ventilation in São Paulo
- Thermal performance evaluation: natural ventilation prediction and dynamic thermal simulation
- Opaque and transparent components and their proportion
- Aperture type, area and position
Mônica P. Marcondes, Department of Technology in Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil
11:55 Performance of an active dynamic air envelope
- Building design and construction for energy saving
- Climate adaptive windows
- Comfort level regulation system
Zhuang Yu, Hui Zhang, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
12:20 The impact of photovoltaic thermal mechanical ventilation heat recovery (PV/T MVHR) on net-zero energy housing
- PV/T MVHR system overview
- Z-en house profile and PV/T MVHR architectural integration
- PV/T MVHR whole-house energy simulation
Masa Noguchi, Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh School of Architecture, UK
12:45 Poster Session 5: Natural Ventilation and Thermal Behaviour of the Building Envelope
Heat and moisture transfer characteristics of wet surfaces exposed to solar radiation
- Measurements of surface evaporation in wet
- Application of Lewis relations at the soil surface
- Heat balance at soil surface
Tetsu Aoki, Department of Architecture, Gifu National College of Technology, Japan
Thermal evaluation of envelopes of non air-conditioned buildings
- Envelope performance indexes
- Outdoor and indoor film heat transfer coefficient
- Evaluation of mono-layered and multi-layered envelopes
Guadalupe Huelsz, Energy Research Center, Independent National University of Mexico
Mitigating effects of transparent solar heat absorption glass on cooling loads
- Double-skin façade
- Transparent solar heat absorption paint
- Transparent solar heat absorption film
Zhe Cui, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
13:00 Poster Session continued and Lunch
Session 7: Enhanced Daylighting and Shading
Chair: Marilyne Andersen, Head of Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
14:00 Interactive optimization in the conceptual design stage of shading devices
- Conceptual design and optimization
- Designing shading devices
- Experimental results and conclusions
Paulo Mendonça, School of Architecture, University of Minho, Portugal
14:25 The PV-wire free sunshade system
- Adaptive outer sunshade system with wireless integrated solar cells
- Load bearing construction as conductor
- Optimizing the energy yield
Siebe Broersma, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
14:50 Development of a coated slat for blinds to be integrated within insulating glass
- Field of application
- Development and technology used
- Benefits of the coating: U-value and g-value
Luca Papaiz, Pellini Spa, Italy
15:15 Permeable semi-transparent shading devices
- Presentation of a model for permeable and semi transparent shading devices
- Measurements carried out on a wall equipped with a textile solar screen
- Validation and evaluation of the efficiency of such devices
Antoine Dugué, Nobatek Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingenierie, France
15:30 Poster Session 6: Enhanced Daylighting and Shading
Revaluation of technologically improved blinds as luminance, visual, acoustic and climatic control system
- The Calvet and Milà Houses by Antoni Gaudí
- Enhanced daylighting through double blinds
- Rolling shutters with adjustable refective geometry slats
Nuría Martí, School of Architecture La Salle, University of Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain
Daylighting geometry in architecture
- Daylighting, communication and comfortable use
- Direct daylighting devices
- Reflecting daylighting devices
Paulo Brito da Silva, Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Assessment tools for daylight control performance of expanded metal
- Daylight and thermal computer simulation
- Parametric modeling of expanded metal
- Laboratory simulations and field tests
Josemi Martínez Rico, School of Architecture, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
15:45 Poster Session continued and Coffee Break
Session 8: Models, Tools and Simulations for Solar Buildings
Chairman: Hans-Martin Henning, Head of Department Thermal Systems and Buildings, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany
16:15 Geometrical optimization of building’s façades for BIPV
- Geometric optimization of photovoltaic panels for building façades
- Genetic algorithms applied to design methodologies
- Analytical comparison between curved and flat photovoltaic surfaces
Virgínia Vannini, Solar Energy Laboratory, Faculty of Architecture, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
16:45 Architectural design for energy-efficient and cost-effective buildings
- Interdisciplinary team approach
- Energy modeling
- Strategies for energy-efficient and cost-effective design
Jörg Rügemer, School of Architecture, University of Utah, USA
17:10 Simulating energetic retrofits of school buildings
- Profiles of Italian school buildings
- Strategies for retrofits
- Modeling energy conditions and comfort
Andrea Boeri, Faculty of Architecture, University of Bologna, Italy
17:35 Energy performance criteria for solar optimized high-rise building skins
- Solar cooling against electric cooling
- Optimized physical façade properties in respect to cooling and lighting demand
- Façade integrated energy generation in the context of high-rise buildings
Mohannad Bayoumi, Faculty of Architecture, Technische Universität Munich, Germany
18:00 End of Conference
The conference will be held in English and Italian with simultaneous translation to both languages. The registration fee of € 480 plus Italian value added tax (VAT) includes the conference proceedings, two lunches and all coffee breaks.
