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DIT had its national event on the 9th June 2011. Lectures /Presentations included:
Introduction & Opening Address – Prof. Brian Norton, President, DIT
Wind Energy- Derek KearneyEnergy Efficient Ventilation – Dr. Peter Warren, Brunel University
Generating Operational Benchmarks for Operational Rating- Dr. Jens Knissel, Institut Wohnen und Umwelt
National event was followed by teachers cross over on the 10th.
On June 15th an article was published to promote USE Efficiency Project in DIT Research News Magazine.
Brunel participated at DITs national event and teacher's cross over on 9-10 June. As mentioned above, Dr. Peter Warren made a presentation at DIT's national event on 'Energy Efficient Ventilation' and attended student's presentations.
Dr. Peter Warren also attended an evening debate in central London on 29 June. The topic of the debate was University Campus Community and was held at FeildenCleggBradley Architectural Studios in Central London. It was attended by 40+ people mainly architects. The USE-Efficiency flyer was distributed with details on the project.
June has been busy for the students at IHA too. The last exams of the students attending the summer school were on the 30th of June. A hard time for them but they are looking very much forward to the summer school. The project that IHA brings to the summer school was sent to ECNetwork for an extra feedback; the students are trying to adjust and implement the notes. The project is in Danish, but there will be an English abstract provided. IHA have had posters and distributed flyers to schools they collaborate with. The aim was to create more awareness about the project.
Other big news for IHA is the approval of their new building, the Navitas Park at the harbor front, a joint building structure on the docklands of Aarhus. Navitas will be Aarhus's new hub for innovation, education and energy. The building will contain facilities for education, research, development and entrepreneurship and the approx. 35,000 m² at Navitas Park will be taken into use in 2014. To read more about the building at Navitas Park visit: http://www.navitas-park.dk/
Malardalen University arranged a conference in Västerås for University teachers in the Building technology area 14-15 June 2011. There were 54 participants from 10 different Colleges and Universities. Bjorn Karlsson gave a presentation about solar energy systems and also presented the Use Efficiency project. More info in Swedish of the conference at: http://www.mdh.se/hst/byggkonf11
Another important event at Malardalen was the Annual Meeting of Västmanland Energy Association on 15 June. After the formal meeting Bjorn Karlsson gave a presentation on the Use Efficiency project. There were around 25 participants. More info on the Energy Association in Swedish is: http://www.vef.se/
UPVLC has been busy mostly with the preparation of Summer School action plan and finalizing Summer School schedule. They have been also working on the promotional material and internal university permits to host the course in August when the University is closed.
At HCU students from the training course were also working hard, they went into detail with many topics regarding building insulation, renewable energies, design for a conversion of the building and a new building on the site.
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