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, Session Block A5

14:00 Integrating Photovoltaics: Products and Performance

Metal facade cladding system with semi-fabricated PV modules

  • Lightweight BIPV facade cladding system
  • Mass customisation manufacturing
  • Regulatory and certification challenges

Livio Vasella, Ernst Schweizer AG, Switzerland

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

Anders Smith, SolarLab, Denmark

Artificial Intelligence in building integrated PV systems

  • Adaptive façades controlled by artificial intelligence
  • AI-driven material innovations
  • Critical barriers of AI application in BIPV

Lisa Duan, University of Alabama, United States

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

Jochen Weick, Pixasolar, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Fire Protection for PV Façades

  • Principles of fire protection for PV façades
  • Fire protection of ventilated PV façades
  • Outlook

Samuel Summermatter, Plan-E, Lucerne, Switzerland

Brief Presentation

Multifunctional modular façade panels for building renovation

Emmanouil Katsigiannis, National Technical University, Athens, Greece

15:30 Coffee Break