La necesaria investigación de los sistemas de calefacción urbana en la docencia del Urbanismo

A pesar de que la influencia de las infraestructuras urbanas en la práctica profesional del urbanismo es evidente, los arquitectos urbanistas que se forman en las Escuelas de Arquitectura que existen en España, reciben escasa información sobre esta materia. De entre todos los tipos de infraestructuras urbanas, la falta de referencias construidas de las destinadas a calefacción urbana en España, propicia la escasez de asignaturas sobre esta materia. Como consecuencia, si no se enseña, tampoco se investiga, generandose un negativo círculo cerrado para esta disciplina. Es por ello que se reivindica la necesidad de crear una metodología de investigación sobre este tipo de infraestructuras, que influya en la docencia que los futuros arquitectos urbanistas reciben en las Escuelas de Arquitectura españolas

Importación de tecnologías avanzadas a la arquitectura

This communication proposes a possible methodology for the efficient technology importation from other areas to architecture with the presentation of different research projects which are actually being developing at the Installations and Energy Section in the School of Architecture of the Universidad de Navarrra. These projects include energetic methane recovery, cell fuels in building and thermoelectric conditioning

Simulation and evaluation of Building Information Modeling in a real pilot site

The current methods of building energy simulation that designers and engineers (D&E) use in order to find the energy performance of a building do not take into account the real behavior of the people who will use the building. The main aim of this paper is to show how by merely including the real behav- ior of people in building simulations there may be differences of up to 30%, through the study of a real pilot site simulation with existing software. These data confirm the possibilities of energy and money saving that energy simulation programs bring about when they include schedules of true use of the build- ing (BIM)

Sensor placement for BPM analysis of buildings in use to implement energy savings through building performance simulation

The article presents the process of placing sensors in a multi - sensorial network, dynamically incorporating a large number of heterogeneous input sources able to provide accurate monitoring data related with sp ace occupancy, energy consumption, comfort levels and environmental quality.To evaluate this multi – sensorial network on real life conditions and on the specific business domains addressed by the Project, this sensing network will be based on heterogeneous sensors (light, motion, CO2, CO, temperature, relative humidity, existing infrastructure on video - surveillance, depth/range image generators, energy consumption, etc.) in order to provide an all - inclusive perspective of covered spaces. The article is part of a global Project to develop privacy - preserving human detection and tracking toolkit , whith the implementation of algorithms for calibration of multiple - depth sensors in the architectural sketch up of a building (BIM), and the development of techniques for extraction of occupancy - related statistics in the spatio - temporal domain of a building. It is an architectural prototype agile and scalable, integrated with the extended LS middleware, que permite the training and calibration as decision making toolkit for Facility Managers

Energy Performance Using Open Studio and Business Process Data

The mission: – Adapt4EE aims at augmenting the contemporary architectural envelope by incorporating business and occupancy related information to the early construction products. – Provides a holistic approach to the design and evaluation of the energy performance of construction products at an early stage and prior to their realization

Análisis del Business Process Model (BPM) como medida de ahorro en el diseño de nuevo edificios y en la mejora de los existentes

El proyecto europeo Adapt4EE descrito en la ponencia, tiene como objetivo desarrollar y validar un marco de evaluación de la eficiencia energética integral que incorpore los metadatos de arquitectura (BIM), los procesos críticos de negocio (BPM), los consecuentes patrones de comportamiento de los ocupantes, los activos y las respectivas operaciones de la empresa, así como las condiciones ambientales generales. El proyecto demuestra como un sistema para la simulación en la edificación que incluya datos sobre el comportamiento de la actividad de los ocupantes como miembros de una estructura empresarial, puede mejorar significativamente el rendimiento de las herramientas de simulación. Se exponen aquí algunos de los principales resultados que se están obteniendo a partir de los edificios piloto

Research Training Programs

Conscientes de la problemática de obtener vocaciones investigadoras en el área de instalaciones y energía, la Universidad de Navarra, dentro del plan de desarrollo de la investigación del Departamento de Edificación de su Escuela de Arquitectura, y del Marco de Innovación Docente Horizonte 2015, ha creado los títulos propios denominados ‘Research Training Program’ dirigidos a los alumnos de cursos superiores de Arquitectura, Ingeniería de Edificación y alumnos de Proyecto Fin de Carrera

Architectural Simulation of the Integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) & Business Process Modelling (BPM)

The current methods of building energy simulation that designers and engineers (D&E) use in order to find the energy performance of a building do not take into account the real behavior and daily activi- ties of the people who will use the building. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate that a system for building simulation, that produces data about the activity behaviour of occupants as members of an enterprise structure and framework, can significantly improve the relevance and performance of building simulation tools, through the study of a real building in daily operation. Furthermore, data (BIM, BPM and occupancy data) has been performed exploiting Open Reference Data Modelling methodology in order to be reusable