Low Carbon Urban Built Environments

LCUBE held a conference on Low Carbon Urban Built Environments in Munich, Germany on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th September 2008.

A book has been published documenting the papers published at this conference. A copy can be downloaded or if you would like a hardcopy please contact Vincent Buhagiar at vincent.buhagiar@um.edu.mt

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The programme and the presentations follow.

Welcome and Presentation of C23 Action

Phil Jones (Chair of C23 Action)
Head of School
Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University
LINK TO Jones_Phil.pdf

Keynote speaker 1
Christian Wetzel
CALCON, Munich

Keynote speaker 2
Prof.Dr. Evgeny Yantovsky,  Independent researcher,
Zero Emissions Urban Power
LINK TO Yantovsky_Evgeny.pdf

Working Group 1 Session - New/existing buildings

Aleksandra Krstic-Furundzic, Vesna Kosoric
Reduction Of CO2 Emissions Through Solar Thermal Collectors Application On Student Housings In Belgrade

Maj-Britt Quitzau, Morten Elle
Low-energy buildings on mainstream market terms - a study of a municipal translation process
LINK TO Quitzau_Maj-Britt.pdf

Dr Alexis Paizis, Nikolaos Manioudakis
Energy Saving Systems
LINK TO Paizis_Alexis.pdf

Christopher Koroneos
Exergy Analysis of Solar Air-conditioning Systems and their Applicability
LINK TO Koroneos_Christopher.pdf

Adam Rybka, Olivier Bertrand
Passive hotel  building in South Poland
LINK TO Rybka_Adam.pdf

Chris Tweed
Knowledge exchange mechanisms for rapid deployment of zero carbon housing in Wales
LINK TO Tweed_Chris.pdf

Jarl Vindnaes
The vertical airport, a greener approach to airport design
LINK TO Vindnaes_Jarl.pdf

Michaela Hoppe
Manual for Improving the Energy Performance of Existing Buildings using Timber and Derived Timber Products
LINK TO Hoppe_ Michaela.pdf

Cristina Samaniego Angulo
Dimensions of the sustainability and optimal values of the indicators for buildings of houses

Working Group 2 Session -  Urban Infrastructure
Cecília Silva, Paulo Pinho
The Structural Accessibility Layer (SAL): A design support tool for urban mobility management
LINK TO Silva_Cecília.pdf

Gonzalo Fernández Sánchez, Fernando Rodríguez López, David Pizarro, Manuel Larraya
Carbon Breakdown Structure
LINK TO Rodriguez Lopez_Fernando.pdf

Véronique Stein
Mobility plans in Switzerland: a partnership towards a sustainable society
LINK TO Stein_Veronique.pdf

Fernando Rodríguez
Universal tool to evaluate the rate of sustainability
LINK to Fernández Sánchez_Gonzalo.pdf

Cristina Samaniego Angulo
Dimensions of the sustainability and optimal values of the indicators for buildings of houses
LINK TO Samaniego_Christina.pdf

João Granadeiro Cortesão, Fernando Brandão Alves, Helena Corvacho
The Public Space Surfaces and Summer Thermal Comfort
LINK TO Cortesão_João.pdf