Innovative Products and Technologies for the Building Skins
- New materials for the building skin
- Smart materials for intelligent building envelopes
- Architectural membranes for high-performance building skins
- Thermal performance of Phase Change Materials for the building skin
- Eco-materials for a sustainable building skin
- Glass for advanced building envelopes
- Integrating photovoltaics and solar thermal technologies into façades
- Solar Shading systems for enhanced daylight control
- New forms of concrete for the building envelope
Advanced Building Skin Design
- Design methods for sustainable, high-performance building façades
- Double skin and cavity façades
- Responsive and adaptive building skins
- Kinetic architecture
- Biomimicry / Biomimetics
- Intelligent sensing, control and optimization
- High-tech lightweight building envelopes
- Green walls and roofs
- Sustainable design with Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Parametric design and digital fabrication
- Additive manufacturing and 3D print of the building envelope
Performance of the Building Envelope
- Retrofitting the building envelope
- Models, tools and simulations for sustainable buildings
- Tools and models to optimize daylight performance
- Building design optimization / Building energy performance simulation
- Optimal insulation levels for roofs and façades
- Systems performance and benefits of new construction materials
- Cost engineering and life cycle cost analysis
- Building commissioning
- Building certification: LEED, Passivhaus, Minergie and other certification systems
- Natural ventilation and thermal behavior of the building envelope
Policies, Finance, Business Models
- Policies to overcome market barriers / Challenges to policy implementation
- Incentives: moving beyond niche markets / Market strategies for sustainable buildings
- Commercialization: How to get sustainable building products onto the market
- Mandatory policies and community empowerment
- Efficiency improvement programs for existing buildings
- Financing and new business models of building refurbishment
- Economic evaluation of building retrofits / Cost optimization of façade renovation
- Building ownership and energy consumption
- Urban development strategies for eco-cities / Applying sustainable urban-scale strategies at building level