Collaborazioni

Starting from the beginning of the 2015, an agreement regarding the bilateral collaboration of the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) and the University of Naples Federico II was signed. This was the official starting point for the joint work of both institutions on projects aiming to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The main goals of the cooperation, coordinated by prof. N. Bianco and Dr. F. Ascione (DII – Università degli Studi di Napoli) and O. Böttcher and R. Kaltenbrunner (BBSR) are the following:

• sharing research activities by coupling data measurements and simulation studies;

• joint publications and joint participation at national and international conferences;

• short-term mobility of researchers;

• visiting lectures in the context of seminars, workshops, conferences or university courses;

• developing projects of common interest.

Meanwhile, a similar agreement was concluded between the BBSR and University of Sannio (coordinated by professors Giuseppe Peter Vanoli and Filippo de Rossi), in March 2015. Both Italian universities have already intensively collaborated in a lot of projects in the field of energy efficiency. This is why the agreement with the University of Sannio is a logical conclusion and reasonable advancement of the agreement with the University of Naples Federico II. In the context of both agreements, annual meetings of the project coordinators are foreseen. The main objectives of the meetings are to evaluate the projects realized and to arrange new projects but also to improve the exchange of knowledge and to give information to all parties involved about actual activities. A first meeting took place from 20th to 24th April 2015 in Naples and Benevento. During the first meeting in Italy, Dr. Böttcher was invited to give a lecture at the University of Sannio, in matter of energetic aims in the German building sector, in general, and the special energy target specifications for the buildings of the Federal Government.

First results of the trilateral collaboration do already exist. Indeed, following the first three visiting periods of researchers and research fellows, respectively in Berlin (Fabrizio Ascione, Claudio De Stasio) and Naples (Uta Krone), scientific papers were developed and submitted at the International Conference on Applied Energy ICAE 2015 and, some months later, further studies were published on Applied Energy and Energy and Buildings, international journals edited by Elsevier. At now, all parties are having the opportunity to appreciate the collaboration of the Institutions, with useful sharing of methods, studies and mutual exchange of knowledge.

Further visiting periods are planned and, in the following weeks, for some days (November 2016), the Dr. Robert Vieweg, from Berlin, will visit us, at the Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Naples Federico II.

Contacts:

Dr. Fabrizio Ascione, Prof. Nicola Bianco
Department of Industrial Engineering
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
fabrizio.ascione@unina.it, nicola.bianco@unina.it

Dr.-Ing. Olaf Böttcher, Dr. Ing. Robert Kaltenbrunner
Division II 7 “Energy-Optimized Building”, Department II Building and Housing
Phone: +49 30 18401-2770
Olaf.Boettcher@BBR.Bund.de