This Global Intensive course will be the fourth realization of an educational collaboration between 精品SM在线影片, the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), and the University of Brescia (UNIBS) Italy and will focus on district-scale energy concepts and modeling. We will spend 12 days in the beautiful lakes region of Northern Italy, specifically Lecco in Lombardy, one hour north of Milano on Lake Como. We are going to work hard but also have a lot of fun! The course will introduce students to the objectives, tools, and methodologies of urban-scale building energy analysis by first allowing students to develop a working knowledge of individual building energy modeling, followed by exploring the capabilities of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) that simultaneously considers multiple buildings in concert. Using the URBANopt鈩� and REopt鈩� platforms developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, students will identify the benefits that may be achieved when buildings and distributed energy resources (DERs) are designed to operate interactively rather than individually. International teams of two students each, one from POLIMI or UNIBS and one from UCB, will be formed to cross-pollinate, recognizing differences in educational systems, engineering approaches, and cultural background between Italy and the United States.听
The Global Intensive will span 12 days in May 2025 on the Lecco Campus of Politecnico di Milano and attendees are from all three involved universities: POLIMI students from the Energy Efficient Building class by Prof. Graziano Salvalai, UCB students from the Building Energy Systems Engineering class by Prof. Gregor Henze, and UNIBS students from the Architectural Engineering class by Prof. Marta Sesana, taught in collaboration with NREL Senior Researcher Dr. Nicholas Long. The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) supports the Global Intensive on Energy Systems for the Built Environment through planning, organization, and logistics by Ms. Danielle Felix, Associate Director of RASEI.
Contact Professor Gregor Henze for questions and to be added to the global intensive roster.
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