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.
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Workshop BEEP Camp for Students
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 16-22 December 2018.Energy efficiency trends in European buildings
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 2018-12-19.Integrated design in relation to the overheating risk, thermal comfort and energy demand in hot climates
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 2018-12-20.ECABO software: Energy and Carbon Assesment of Buildings in Operation
Integrating hourly life-cycle energy and carbon emissions of energy supply in buildings
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.Stratégie de rénovation active pour le parc bâti suisse. Cas d’étude à Neuchâtel
Build & Connect - Technologies et pratiques pionnières du bâtiment, Strasbourg, France, November 28-29, 2018.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.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.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.
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.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.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.On the Influence of Thermal Mass and Natural Ventilation on Overheating Risk in Offices
Buildings. 2018-03-22. DOI : 10.3390/buildings8040047.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.
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.