, Session Block A5
14:00 Integrating Photovoltaics: Products and Performance
Chair: Roland Valckenborg, TNO, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Metal facade cladding system with semi-fabricated PV modules
- Lightweight BIPV facade cladding system
- Mass customisation manufacturing
- Regulatory and certification challenges
Artificial Intelligence in building integrated PV systems
- Adaptive façades controlled by artificial intelligence
- AI-driven material innovations
- Critical barriers of AI application in BIPV
Lightweight and smart substructures for BIPV
- Market needs
- Lightweight approach
- Disruption and technology evolution
Beauty and safety of solar façades
- Design freedom in layout and material expression
- Typologies and engineering for all use cases
- Testing and certification for a global market
Challenges in a maturing BIPV market
- PV as integral part of a building skin with multiple functions
- The triad of aesthetics, performance and cost
- Fire safety as one of the dominant technical details
Colored BIPV - Generation 4.0
- Easy to integrate
- Design/performance ratio
- Case study
15:30 Coffee Break
