Building 2050

The Building2050 group, coordinated by Sergi Aguacil, was founded in 2014, following the creation of the EPFL Fribourg satellite campus and of the smart living lab. Its activities support the development of the smart living lab building, which will house a hundred smart living lab researchers as of 2021, as a research object and outcome.

The mission of the Building2050 research group is to provide scientific and technical support for the research projects that are using the smart living lab building as an experimental tool. The team also integrates the results of the research program into the design, implementation, and operation of the smart living lab building.

News

The smart living lab at PLEA 2018 Conference, Hong-Kong

— The Structural Xploration Lab and the Building2050 Group of the smart living lab present new research papers at the PLEA 2018 Conference in Hong-Kong this week.

Selected applications to develop smart living lab building's project

— Further to the call for applications launched by the smart living lab and Bluefactory Fribourg-Freiburg SA (BFF SA) on 14 September, four teams were selected in order to define the draft of an experimental building on the blueFACTORY site, by means of a collaborative parallel studies mandate (MEP*). The multidisciplinary study groups selected are invited to present the development of their projects during several discussions that will be taking place between December 2018 and June 2019.

Calculating Switzerland's energy carbon footprint more accurately

— By developing a method for calculating the carbon footprint of energy used in Switzerland on an hourly basis rather than as a yearly average, EPFL researchers have shed important light on an otherwise obscure industry.

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Latest Publications

T. Jusselme : Workshop BEEP Camp for Students ; CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 16-22 December 2018.
T. Jusselme : Energy efficiency trends in European buildings ; CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 2018-12-19.
T. Jusselme : Integrated design in relation to the overheating risk, thermal comfort and energy demand in hot climates ; CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 2018-12-20.
D. Vuarnoz : ECABO software: Energy and Carbon Assesment of Buildings in Operation.
S. Aguacil Moreno : Stratégies de rénovation active pour le parc bâti suisse. Cas d’étude à Neuchâtel..
D. Vuarnoz : Integrating hourly life-cycle energy and carbon emissions of energy supply in buildings.
T. Jusselme; D. Vuarnoz : Dataset concerning the hourly conversion factors for the cumulative energy demand and its non-renewable part, and hourly GHG emission factors of the Swiss mix during a one year period (2015-2016).; Data in Brief. 2018-12-09.
T. Jusselme; E. Rey; M. Andersen : Findings from a survey on the current use of life-cycle assessment in building design. 2018-12-10. PLEA 2018 - Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit, Hong-Kong, December 10-12, 2018.
D. Vuarnoz; T. Jusselme : Neutral global warming potential target of electricity storage as threshold for greenhouse gas emission mitigation in buildings. 2018-12-10. Passive and Low Energy Architecture conference (PLEA 2018): Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit, Hong-Kong, December 10-12, 2018. p. 1217.
S. Cozza; T. Jusselme; M. Andersen : Usability assessment of building performance simulation tools: a pilot study. 2018-09-12. Second International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment - SDBE 2018, September 12-13, 2018.
É. Nault; T. Jusselme; M. Andersen : Setting contextual life-cycle objectives in urban design: requirements for a decision-support method. 2018-09-17. Second International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment (SDBE), London, UK, September 12-13, 2018.
D. Vuarnoz; S. Cozza; T. Jusselme; G. Magnin; T. Schafer et al. : Integrating hourly life-cycle energy and carbon emissions of energy supply in buildings; Sustainable Cities and Society. 2018-08-29. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2018.08.026.
D. Vuarnoz; T. Jusselme : Temporal variations in the primary energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of electricity provided by the Swiss grid; Energy. 2018-07-24. DOI : 10.1016/j.energy.2018.07.087.
A. Brambilla; J. Bonvin; F. Flourentzou; T. Jusselme : On the Influence of Thermal Mass and Natural Ventilation on Overheating Risk in Offices; Buildings. 2018-03-22. DOI : 10.3390/buildings8040047.
T. Jusselme; E. Rey; M. Andersen : An integrative approach for embodied energy: Towards an LCA-based data-driven design method; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2018-02-27. DOI : 10.1016/j.rser.2018.02.036.
T. Schafer; E.-L. Niederhauser; G. Magnin; D. Vuarnoz : Development and validation of an intelligent algorithm for synchronizing a low-environmental-impact electricity supply with a building’s electricity consumption. 2018. The 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Technologies (ICRET 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 16-18, 2018.
A. Brambilla; J. P. Bonvin; F. Flourentzou; T. Jusselme : Life cycle efficiency ratio: a new performance indicator for a life cycle driven approach to evaluate the potential of ventilative cooling and thermal inertia; Energy and Buildings. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.12.010.