Kick-Off of the cooperation for an AIT Joint Laboratory in Singapore for the emerging topic green building envelopes.
February, 18th, 2013, as a prelude to the start of the planned cooperation in Singapore, AIT managing director Wolfgang Knoll signed a memorandum of understanding for a new research initiative on the topic green building envelopes in Singapore.
Together with the two project partners ERI@N - Energy Research Institute at Nanchang Technological University and IMRE - Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, the Austrian Institute of Technology will develop this upcoming research topic. The research team from the AIT Energy Department brings together a wide range of expertise in the field of emerging façade systems and photovoltaics.
Innovative building combinations
Green Buildings are closely related to high performance building envelopes and façade systems. With innovative combinations of design, technology and materials, a responsive building envelope – tuned to interact with the environment – contributes greatly to an integrated approach towards sustainable buildings. To be energy-efficient and sustainable, building envelopes should be active on all levels to utilize microclimatic energy cycles and interactions over time, while exploiting renewable energy and protecting the building occupants from local climate impacts
Project Partners
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http://www.imre.a-star.edu.sg/
Press article
<link file:1931 download file>Green buildings for a greener Singapore