Day 1, Session Block B
10:45 Policies for Energy-efficient Construction and Refurbishment
Chair: Ian Miller, Pretium Anderson Building Engineers, Canada
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
12:30 Lunch