, Session Block B4
10:45 Solar Façades - Academic Viewpoint
Chair: Leo Lau, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
BIPV for downtown Toronto and its impact on peak demand profile
- Impact of BIPV on peak demand profile at an urban scale
- Resilience assessment of city-scale deployment of BIPV
- Monte Carlo simulations
Performance, aesthetics and weight aspects of BIPV technologies
- Aesthetic and versatile multi-wire interconnection
- Laminations on curved surfaces
- Approaches for light-weight PV applications
Economic impact of aesthetic PV integration for retrofitting listed properties
- BIPV aesthetic integration in protected contexts
- Economic profitability of innovative BIPV solutions
- Extra cost of BIPV aesthetic integration
Solar envelope design optimization for energy efficiency and energy flexibility
- Selection between BIPV and BIPV/T
- Optimization of BIPV/T placement and sizing
- Solar envelopes for energy efficiency vs flexibility
Structural timber-glass façade systems with integrated photovoltaics
- Increasing stiffness of a façade with structural glass
- Building integrated photovoltaics
- Numerical model validated with experiments
Brief Presentations
Fiber-reinforced composite materials for building envelopes with BIPV
Revisions of a plus-energy modular building
12:30 Lunch