Call for Papers: 11th Conference on Advanced Building Skins

Below are the topics which will be covered in our Conference 2016.

Policies, Finance, Business Models

• Policies to overcome market barriers / Challenges to policy implementation




• Incentives: moving beyond niche markets / Market strategies for sustainable buildings




• Commercialization: How to get sustainable building products into the market




• Mandatory policies and community empowerment




• Efficiency improvement programs for existing buildings




• Financing and new business models of building refurbishment




• Economic evaluation of building retrofits / Cost optimization of façade renovation




• Building ownership and energy consumption




• Urban development strategies for EcoCities / Applying sustainable urban-scale strategies at building level

Innovative Products and Technologies for the Building Skin

• New materials for the building skin




• Smart materials for intelligent building envelopes




• Architectural membranes for high-performance building skins




• Thermal performance of Phase Change Materials for the building skin




• Eco materials for the building skin




• Integrating solar technologies into the building envelope




• Solar reflective technologies and shading systems for enhanced daylight control




• Solar Decathlon projects and technologies

Advanced Building Skin Design

• Design methods for sustainable, high-performance building façades




• Responsive and adaptive building skins 




• Biomimicry




• Intelligent sensing, control and optimization




• Membranes for high performance building skins




• High-tech lightweight building envelopes




• Kinetic architecture




• Green walls




• Sustainable design with Building Information Modeling (BIM)




• Parametric design and digital fabrication

Performance of the Building Envelope

• Models, tools and simulations for sustainable buildings




• Tools and models to optimize daylight performance




• Building design optimization / Building energy performance simulation




• Optimal insulation levels of roofs and façades




• Systems performance and benefits of new construction materials




• Cost engineering and life cycle cost analysis




• Building commissioning




• Building certification: LEED, Passivhaus, Minergie and other certification systems




• Natural ventilation and thermal behavior of the building envelope

How to apply

Proposals should be sharply focused; please avoid an introduction to the topic or a description of your organization. Each proposal should clearly identify its subject and its particular approach to it; the premise, scope, and ambitions underlying the paper should be clear to the reader. We will accept proposals that are either research or practice orientated. Please send your proposal in English or German language and include the following information:

• Paper title plus 3 bullet points




• Author’s and co-author’s names, job titles and organization; please underline the name of the speaker




• Phone number, email address and postal address




• Synopsis of 300 words (abstract) with 6 key words




• Brief Curriculum Vitae or résumé on page two of your proposal

Click here to download our template that you can use for your proposal. See the 2015 program for samples of bullet points; do not use words like Introduction, Results, Conclusions, or Case Studies as bullet points.

Please include your contact information also in your email, and the topic of your paper in the subject line of your email. Proposals can be submitted in either English or German and should be sent in WORD format to proposals [ at ] abs.green by 15 February 2016. The Scientific Conference Committee will review your proposal, and submitters will be notified by 30 March regarding the status of their submission.

Registration Fee

Speakers are required to register for the conference by 30 April and qualify for the reduced conference fee of 480 EUR (regular fee is 680 EUR). The registration fee includes lunches and coffee breaks, and the publication of manuscripts and posters in the conference documentation. Full papers received by 1 June 2016 will be included in the conference documentation. In addition, selected papers will be published in the Journal of Advances in Building Energy Research, a scientific Journal published by Taylor & Francis, Oxford and New York; all papers will be cited in the Scopus index.

Important Dates

Deadline for paper proposals: 15 February 2016

Registration deadline for speakers: 30 April 2016

Submission deadline for full manuscripts: 1 June 2016

First announcement of the conference program: 15 June 2016

Second announcement of the conference program: 15 September 2016

Deadline for PowerPoint presentations: 15 September 2016

11th Conference on Advanced Building Skins: 10-11 October 2016

You will find information about the conference venue and hotels in Bern here: abs.green/how-to-get-there

Advanced Building Skins: Scientific Conference Committee

Cinzia Abbate, AeV Architetti, Rome, Italy

Rachel Becker, Director, National Building Research Institute, Haifa, Israel

Michael Garrison, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Andreas Hempel, International Academy of Architects; former President Association of German Architects BDA

Hans-Martin Henning, Head of Thermal Systems and Buildings, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany

Eckhart Hertzsch, Project Manager 'City of the Future', Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Germany

Andreas Karweger, General Manager, Economic Forum, Munich, Germany

Leo Lau, Director, Green Energy and Green Manufacturing Technology R&D Center, Chengdu, China

Zhenjun Ma, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia

Dieter Moor, Ertex-Solar, Austria

Fabian Ochs, Unit for Energy Efficient Buildings, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Valentina Puglisi, Architecture Building and Construction Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Christian Renken, BIPV Competence Center, University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland

Wolfram Sparber, Director, Department of Renewable Energies, European Academy, Bolzano, Italy

Mitsuhiro Udagawa, Prof. Emeritus, Department of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Japan

Stephen Wittkopf, Technology & Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland

Yigsaw Yohanis, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, United Kingdom

Organizer

Advanced Building Skins GmbH

Hostettstrasse 30

CH-6062 Wilen

Switzerland

info [ at ] abs.green