Publications
• Digital Erasmus – a pan-European approach to teaching building performance and resilient design
CLIMA 2022: REHVA 14th HVAC World Congress 22nd - 25th May, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Christina J. Hopfea, Eleonora Brembillab, Lori B. McElroyc, Robert S. McLeoda, Matej Gustina, Daniel Costolac
a Institute of building physics, services and construction (IBPSC), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
b Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
c Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Abstract: The global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has forced universities to completely re-think their teaching concepts to provide safe, remote teaching of students off-campus. One of the challenges of this rapid transition is ensuring that the quality of the learning experience remains high and that students are able to engage and thrive in this new and predominantly digital environment. This project, entitled ‘Digital Erasmus - a roadmap to using building performance simulation to achieve resilient design’, responds to this context by seeking to transform the learning experience of students in built environment disciplines using a continuous digital learning cycle. This paper outlines the concept of the program and the learning objectives that it responds to, as well as some initial results highlighting the programs opportunity for students to work collaboratively and transnationally. The program is still in its infancy but it is hoped that it can serve as a template for similar future online courses that will promote safe, interdisciplinary and engaging collaboration amongst students from different universities.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34641/ clima.2022.129
• Teaching data analysis for building performance simulation – Series: Building simulation and calculation tools in teaching
BAUPHYSIK: Volume 44, Issue 5, October 2022
Christina J. Hopfea, Robert S. McLeoda, Matej Gustina, Eleonora Brembillab, Lori B. McElroyc
a Institute of building physics, services and construction (IBPSC), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
b Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
c Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Abstract: The Erasmus+ project, entitled ‘Digital Erasmus – a roadmap to using building performance simulation to achieve resilient design’ (DesRes), seeks to transform the learning experience of students in built environment disciplines using a continuous digital learning cycle. Three universities play a part in this project: Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the University of Strathclyde (UoS), each developing and delivering a module to complete the learning experience in building simulation. This paper describes the aims and learning objectives associated with the workshops taught at TU Graz as part of the module dedicated to energy monitoring. These workshops tackle the complexity of working with large data sets, which commonly arise from energy monitoring research. In particular, the workshops aim to provide a practical understanding of how to identify, handle, reshape, clean up and evaluate important summary statistics from incomplete data sets. These are fundamental skills in building simulation where model validation and calibration are increasingly commonplace.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bapi.202200027
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