University of Innsbruck- Austria
University of Innsbruck has 2 technical faculties (civil engineering, architecture) and in total of 25,000 students of which 1400 are registered in the faculty of architecture and 815 in civil engineering. The EGEE chair is newly established at the University of Innsbruck. It represents a link between classical civil engineering in the building sector and the more mechanical engineering driven HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) system and the use of renewable energy (solar, biomass, ambient heat) in buildings. The chair works in close cooperation with the chair of building physics. The chair "Energy Efficient Buildings and Renewable Energy" is equipped with a laboratory and an outdoor collector test area. In autumn 2010 a fully automatic and flexible heat source/sink apparatus was put in operation including the connection to the collector test area and the corresponding measurement, data acquisition and control equipment as well as data analysis tools.
Prof. Streicher Wolfgang

​Mr. Streicher took over the chair "Energy Efficient Buildings and Renewable Energ" in December 2009. He was working from 1986 to 2009 at the Institute of Thermal Engineering at Graz University of Technology. He was vice head of that Institute and lead a working group on this field with 10 third party financed persons. His expertise covers HVAC systems, energy efficient buildings, solar thermal energy use (active and passive), renewable energy use in buildings, thermal energy storage, thermal building and HVAC system simulation, numerical methods and energy certification of buildings and especially the systems integration of all these parts. He was activ by implementation of the two  projects CD-JEP-31109-2003(SY) and UM-JEP-33048-2005(SY).

Mr. Martin Hauer

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Martin Hauer DI(FH) is working in the field of coupled simulations of facades and solar thermal collectors using TNRSYS and Matlab.

 

Norbert Hauer

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Norbert Hauer (DI) is responsible for the laboratory including measurements and testing. He will lead the measurements of façade elements
with thermal collectors in the passys boxes of the unit.