“The building as a building block of the energy future”
This year’s 7th cross-border symposium Brennpunkt Alpines Bauen dealt with the topic “The building as a building block of the energy future” and was held in digital form for the first time on 1 October 2020. Innovative research developments and showcase projects were presented, which showed that building and energy production are also possible in a sustainable way. Numerous projects were presented in digital rooms and the 350 or so participants had the opportunity to enter each room individually.
In the session “Post-compaction and redevelopment” Sabine Gadocha from the RSA FG Research Studio iSPACE Smart Settlement Systems/ Zentrum Alpines Bauen and Sabine Erber from the Energieinstitut Vorarlberg showed how post-compaction potentials can be determined and quantified on a parcel-by-parcel basis with the help of GIS methods and what strategies exist for their mobilization. After all, one of the key challenges of the future is to increase the efficiency of land use in settlement development through targeted internal development. This will help to counteract urban sprawl and soil sealing.
The Projects Center Alpine Construction
The Alpine Building – Research and Transfer Center acts as a know-how carrier for resource-saving and sustainable building. It offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular access to current research results and innovative developments in the construction sector and sustainable settlement development.
The center is concerned with technical solutions for future-oriented and networked buildings. The focus is on the simulation and implementation of measures in which buildings are considered in the context of their location and the surrounding settlements as well as infrastructure networks. The Center’s three research areas “Intelligent Building Envelopes”, “Intelligent Energy Systems” and “Simulation of Settlement Systems” form an axis between the fields of building technology, sustainable construction and sustainable settlement and neighborhood development.
In the research area “Simulation of settlement systems” (conducted by iSPACE), innovative (spatial) simulation models and decision bases for resource-efficient densification solutions for sustainable settlement systems are developed using geoinformatics methods.
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