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, Session Block A3

8:30 Integrating Solar Technologies into the Building Envelope

Fire safety and quality control on high PV façades

  • Fire Safety Guidelines for PV façades over 30m
  • Solutions for high PV façades respecting fire safety aspects
  • Control and maintenance of high PV façades
  • Partial shadowing and overheating of c-Si PV façades

Urs Walter Muntwyler, Dr. Schüpbach & Muntwyler, Bern, Switzerland

Functionalized plastic films for building-integrated photovoltaics

  • Advantages of perovskite solar cells for BIPV and BAPV
  • Functionalized plastic films as front- and back-sheets
  • Pilot-production scale advancements for flexible solar cells

Michael Hoffmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology, Dresden, Germany

3D Solar textile

  • Technical textiles and BIPV
  • Solar shading
  • Lightweight building strategies

Claudia Lüling, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, GermanyNils Adam, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Shading-tolerant colored façade BIPV modules

  • Shading-tolerant BIPV using back-contact cells
  • Integrated bypass protection at the cell level
  • Reduced planning effort for complex urban shading

Marcus Bäckmann, Invitaic, Switzerland

Brief Presentations

Laminated photovoltaic U-profiled glass skin

Wael Mandow, Institute for Solar Energy Research, Hamelin, Germany

Solar-thermally activated façades as heat sources for heat pump systems

Edward Frick, Institute for Solar Energy Research, Hamelin, Germany

Rhino plugin for PV glare risk assessment in urban environment

Janina Willmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany

10:00 Coffee Break