Day 1, Session Block B

Refurbishment of building envelopes on a district level

• Advantages of refurbishment on a district level
• Business models and tools for decision-making
• Transforming the energy refurbishment of districts

Jure Erzen, Local energy agency of Gorenjska, Slovenia

True value of building envelope retrofits

• Building envelope retrofits
• Hidden costs and value
• Cost-benefit analysis to determine the payback for retrofits

Ian Miller, Pretium Anderson Waterloo Inc., Breslau, Canada

Market potential and acceptance of BIPV solutions

• Building integrated PV (BIPV) market in urban renewal
• Specific retrofit project
• Acceptance model of BIPV solutions

Martin Boesiger, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale de Fribourg, Switzerland

Impact of a window rating system on the performance of windows

• Improving the energy efficiency of a building with high-performance windows
• Impact of the window rating system on the building energy performance
• Increasing the window performance with a rating system

Minjung Bae, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, South Korea

Envelope design optimization for building refurbishment

• Analysis of refurbishment options
• Budgets and amortization
• Refurbishment of listed buildings

Raul Corrales, Bureau d’Ingénieurs Fenêtres & Façades, Lausanne, Switzerland