About the workshop:

Today, cost effective and environmentally friendly approaches represent a must when designing / renovating building envelopes. Newly developed smart plug and play envelope systems are reacting to these latest requirements by offering low cost solution with energy demand reduction, which contributes to sustainable use of natural resources and meets European climate targets.

The workshop featured examples of these novel approaches looking at them from the research & development as well as industrial and commercial perspectives.

Topics discussed were:

• The role of smart windows in EU’s Energy Efficient Buildings Strategy
• Different approaches towards smart building envelopes designs – Examples of EU funded projects (Switch2Save, PLURAL, POWERSKIN+)
• How to bring innovative technologies to the market – Climate smart and cost-effective glass
• Challenges of smart plug and play systems from the industrial perspective
• Round table discussion
• Switch2Save Architectural Design Competition launch

You can watch the POWERSKIN+ presentation recording here. 

To find out more about the POWERSKIN+ Project, visit our website.