© Zürich Tourismus Sustainable Built Environment Regional Conference Zurich SBE16 June 13–17, 2016 ZURICH Expanding Boundaries: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment sponsored by media partner supported by Content Introduction 3 Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Regional Conference Zurich <Expanding Boundaries: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment> Program 5 Daily overview of all events Workshops 11 Keynote Speakers 15 Panel Discussion 20 <Smart humans or smart meters?> Poster Presentations 21 Conference Sessions 22 Detailed session schedule Site Visits 29 Venues 33 Conference Venue Social Events Visiting Zurich 35 Behind the Scenes 37 Organising Committee Advisory Board Scientific Committee SBE16 Zurich | Introduction Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Regional Conference Zurich, June 13-17, 2016 Expanding Boundaries: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment Consuming over 40% of total primary en- SBE16 Regional Conference Zurich acts ergy, the built environment is in the focus as a platform to discuss this shift between of worldwide strategies and measures students, researchers and profession- towards a more sustainable future. To als and to foster system thinking in the provide resilient solutions, a simple opti- built environment. The conference takes misation of individual technologies will not place from June 13 to 17, 2016. It is part be sufficient. In contrast, whole-system of the international SBE series of con- thinking reveals and exploits connections ferences focusing on a sustainable built between otherwise disparate parts. Each environment. It is accompanied by keynote system interacts with others on different speeches, workshops and site visits to re- scales (materials, buildings, cities) and cent, cutting edge building projects in and domains (ecology, economy, social). around Zurich. The need for such system thinking is On behalf of the hosts and organisers of reflected by the current shift in research this event – the city of Zurich, ETH Zurich, from the perspective of single buildings to and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy small urban neighborhoods and districts. – we warmly welcome all participants! The expansion of system boundaries opens up vast opportunities for interaction and synergies but also poses challenges due to an increase in complexity. 3 SBE16 Zurich | Introduction Zurich Skyline, © GMC We have defined a set of key conference Accepted papers have been allocated to topics to prompt paper submisisons that the following conference streams: cover different aspects and scales of sys- tems thinking. These key topics determine • Distributed energy systems & the content and structure of the main infrastructure conference sessions which take place on • Life-cycle oriented approaches Wednesday, June 15 to Friday, June 17. • Integrated approaches & tools for decision-making • Innovative materials & components 4 SBE16 Zurich | Program Program Workshops Poster Presentations SBE16 Zurich offers half-day, 1-day and Short Poster Presentations of 1min 2-day workshops that focus on the topics each are scheduled for Wednesday and of the conference. They take place on June Thursday following the keynote speakers. 13-14. They aim to provide an opportunity for students, researchers and profession- Panel Discussion als for focused debates as well as hands- On Friday morning, following the keynote on experiences and explorations of new lecture, participants are invited to gather methods or technologies. The workshop for a panel discussion with the title <Smart results will be presented following the humans or smart meters?> opening program on Wednesday. Site Visits Keynote Speakers We have selected a range of recent, cut- We have invited renowned scholars and ting edge building projects in and around industry leaders to discuss the topic of Zurich to accompany the theoretical de- sustainability in the context of built envi- bate with practical examples. Site visits ronments. These lectures represent the take place on Thursday and Friday after- theoretical frame of the conference. noon and require registration in advance. Transportation is provided. Conference Sessions Conference Sessions take place on June Social Events 15-17. Input lectures of 15 minutes will be In addition to the formal program, we followed by 5 minutes of Q/A. We kindly invite all participants to join our social ask all participants to respect this sched- gatherings on Tuesday and Thursday. We ule and to allow equal opportunities for all are looking forward to meeting you! speakers. For information on IT require- ments please see page 22. Opposite page: Overview of the SBE16 Zurich conference schedule, June 13 – 17, 2016. 5 SBE16 Zurich | Program Mon, June 13 Tue, June 14 Wed, June 15 Thu, June 16 Fri, June 17 Opening Keynote Keynote Program Chrisna du Plessis Jens Feddern Keynote Keynote Panel Koen Steemers Serge Salat Discussion Poster Presentation / Coffee Break Keynote Peter Edwards Conference Conference Sessions Sessions Presentation Workshops Lunch Break Workshops Workshops Conference Conference Conference Sessions Sessions Sessions Coffee Break Closing Program Site Visits Conference Sessions Farewell Site Coffee Visit Welcome Conference Apéro Dinner 6 Monday, June 13 9:00 – 18:00 Workshop 1 | City Energy Analyst (CEA) Toolbox HIL E65 Workshop 4 | Sustainable Hybrid Building HIL F25.2 Tuesday, June 14 9:00 – 18:00 Workshop 1 | City Energy Analyst (CEA) Toolbox HIL E65 Workshop 5 | Bauen für die 1t-CO2-Gesellschaft LEE 101 14:00 – 17:30 Workshop 2 | Urban SOLar Visual Explorer HIL E15.2 Workshop 3 | Management Game of a Building Material Supply Chain HIL F25.2 15:00 – 17:30 Workshop 6 | Sustainable building operation HIL F36.1 18:00 Welcome Apéro ETH Zurich Dozentenfoyer Rämistrasse 101, Floor K, 8092 Zurich Wednesday, June 15 8:30 Registration Registration Desk HCI G HCI is the main conference venue (see map on page 33) 9:00 Opening Program HCI G3 Chair: Arno Schlueter (ETH Zurich) with Andreas Eckmanns (BFE), Nils Larsson (iiSBE) and Wiebke Rösler Häfliger (City of Zurich) 9:45 Keynote Speaker: Koen Steemers (University of Cambridge) 10:30 Poster Session 1 HCI G 10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 Keynote Speaker: Peter Edwards HCI G3 (Singapore-ETH Centre) 11:45 Presentation of Workshop Results 12:40 Lunch Break 13:45 – 15:30 Conference Sessions 1.1 2.2 3.1 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:30 Conference Sessions 1.1 2.3 3.3 Thursday, June 16 9:00 Keynote Speaker: Chrisna du Plessis HCI G3 (University of Pretoria) Chair: Guillaume Habert (ETH Zurich) 9:45 Keynote Speaker: Serge Salat (Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute Paris) 10:30 Poster Session 2 HCI G 10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:40 Conference Sessions 1.1 2.3 3.3 12:40 Lunch Break 13:45 – 15:30 Conference Sessions 1.2 2.3 4 15:30 – 18:30 Site Visit 1 | NEST at Empa Site Visit 2 | Campus Tour ETH Hoenggerberg Site Visit 3 | Development of the District ‹Hardau› Site Visit 4 | Building Cooperative ‹mehr als wohnen› Site Visit 5 | Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects Meeting Point: Stefano-Franscini-Platz 19:00 Conference Dinner g27 restaurant Grubenstrasse 27, 8045 Zurich Friday, June 17 9:00 Keynote Speaker: Jens Feddern HCI G3 (Siemens Building Technologies) Chair: Arno Schlueter (ETH Zurich) 9:45 Panel Discussion <Smart humans or smart meters?> Chair: Niklaus Kohler (em. Prof. KIT) with Jens Feddern (Siemens), Suren Erkman (University of Lausanne), Annette Aumann (City of Zurich) 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:40 Conference Sessions 1.3 2.1 4 12:40 Lunch Break 13:45 – 15:30 Conference Sessions 1.3 2.1 3.2 15:30 Closing Program and Award Ceremony HCI G3 with Chi Sun Poon (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Niklaus Kohler (em. Prof. KIT), Andreas Eckmans (BFE), Annette Aumann (City of Zurich) and Guillaume Habert, Arno Schlueter (ETH Zurich) 16:30 Farewell Coffee 16:30 – 19:00 Site Visit 2 | Campus Tour ETH Hoenggerberg SBE16 Zurich | Workshops Workshops 1 | City Energy Analyst (CEA) Toolbox 2 | Urban SOLar Visual Explorer June 13 & 14 / 9:00 – 18:00 / HIL E65 June 14 / 14:00 – 17:30 / HIL E15.2 The City Energy Analyst (CEA) is a novel The workshop proposes a multi-criteria computational framework for the analysis decision-support workflow that esti- of building energy systems at neighbour- mates the passive, active, and daylight hood and district scales developed at ETH performance of neighbourhood variants Zurich. Based on ArcGis, the framework automatically generated from a set of serves to define energy efficiency strate- urban design parameters provided by gies that minimize the energy intensity, the user. This tool is developed to provide carbon footprint and annualized costs of practitioners with early-stage design al- energy services in an urban area. ternatives in an interactive and iterative sequence, guiding them towards a design Interested participants are invited to take with improved solar and energy potential. part in the first CEA Toolbox workshop, a The core of the workflow is coded and 2-day session including theoretical input packaged as a Grasshopper plug-in for and group work. Rhino, with a customised interface for gathering the user-inputs. Number of participants: 9 – 12 Number of participants: max. 25 Duration: 2 days Duration: 3 – 3.5 hours Organisers: Amr Elesawy, Anja Willmann Organiser: Emilie Nault (Interdisciplinary (ETH Zurich, Chair of Architecture and Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Building Systems) and Jimeno Fonseca Design (LIPID), EPFL, Switzerland) (Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre) 11 SBE16 Zurich | Workshops 3 | Management Game of a Building Material Supply Chain 4 | Sustainable Hybrid Building June 14 / 14:00 – 17:00 / HIL F25.2 June 13 / 9:00 – 19:00 / HIL F25.2 Building material supply chains form part A multidisciplinary approach to mixed-use of the complexity of built environments. buildings in small urban districts This system dynamics management game A hybrid building combines several pro- involves a supply chain with four compa- grams in one fabric. It could be managed nies and the respective material and in- by public-private partnerships and could formation flows.