The smart living lunches take place every first Tuesday of the month from 11 am to 1 pm, in the Blue Hall on the blueFACTORY site in Fribourg.
These events are designed for the smart living community. Since 2018, a "pitch your project" session has been launched right after the smart living lunch.
Upcoming smart living lunches in 2018
Tuesday 06.11.2018
• "Transnational Holistic Ecosystem for Better Energy Efficiency through Social innovation (THE4BEES)" – Martin Bösiger, scientific collaborator at ENERGY Institute – HEIA-FR
• "User Behavior Experiment" (the mesoscale of adaptable built environments) – Hamed Alavi, senior researcher at Human-IST Research Institute – UNIFR
Tuesday 04.12.2018
• "Prosumer-based energy production" – Christian Ritzel, senior researcher at the international institute of management in technology – UNIFR
• "Innovation development, communication and collaboration in bounded environments: the case of the smart living lab" – Anton Sentic, senior researcher at the international institute of management in technology – UNIFR
Past events
2018
Tuesday 02.10.2018
• "Are we missing the diversity factor when we specify indoor comfort conditions?" – Dolaana Khovalyg, Head of Thermal Engineering for the Built Environment Laboratory – EPFL
• "Advanced IEQ Sensing: The Next Frontier of the Built Environment" – Dusan Licina, Assistant Professor and Head of the Human-Oriented Built Environment Lab – EPFL
Tuesday 04.09.2018
• "Build, Unbuild, Repeat" – Alex Muresan, main researcher at Structural Xploration Lab – EPFL
• "Grammar based graphic statics for structural design explorations" – Ioannis Mirtsopoulos, research assistant at Structural Xploration Lab – EPFL
Tuesday 05.06.2018
• "Solar Energy in retrofitting building: 10 case studies of solar integration in the residential heritage of the 20th century in Western Switzerland" – Philippe Couty and Elodie Simon – HEIA-FR
Tuesday 01.05.2018
• "LOW CARBON HOUSING. Environmental impact assessment of Swiss residential archetypes: a comparison of construction and mobility scenarios" – Sophie Lufkin, scientist, Judith Drouilles, doctoral assistant, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, doctoral assistant, Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies – EPFL
• "Measuring the effect of office densification on the energy and carbon lifecycle performance" – Thomas Jusselme, research associate at Building 2050 – EPFL
Tuesday 10.04.2018
• "FAR: Laboratory of Construction and Architecture Research Themes and Directions" – Ellan Spero, Riccardo Vannucci, Ricardo Serpell, André Ullal, scientists at Laboratory of Construction and Architecture – EPFL
Tuesday 06.03.2018
• "SEN: a tool for the assessment in reduction of the energy performance gap in projects" – Ilse Bahnsen and Jonathan Parrat, architects and scientific collaborators at TRANSFORM Institute – HEIA-FR
• "Solutions for Daylighting & Electric Lighting at the Smart Living Lab - IEA SHC T61 / EBC A77" – Jérôme Kämpf, professor of building energy efficiency at ENERGY Institute – HEIA-FR
Tuesday 06.02.2018
• "Low Carbon Structural Design" – Catherine De Wolf, scientist at Structural Xploration Lab – EPFL
• "Structural Form Finding from Reclaimed Bar Elements" – Joseph Desruelle, scientific assistant at Structural Xploration Lab – EPFL
2017
Tuesday 03.10.2017
• "Adaptive Structures: Infinitely Stiff, Extremely Slender, Ultra-Light Weight" – Gennaro Senatore, Post-doctoral researcher for EPFL's Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory
• "The potential of energy neighborhoods" – Yves Hertig, Research Assistant at the international institute of management in technology, UNIFR
Tuesday 05.09.2017
• "Impact of buildings on the urban climate: modeling and experimental approaches" – Dasaraden Mauree, Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL's Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory
• "Energy simulation at urban scale : data needs and outcomes, a practical vision" – Jérôme Kaempf, Professor at the HEIA-FR, ENERGY Institute
Tuesday 02.05.2017
• "Architectural Creativity" – Florinel Radu, Professor at the HEIA-FR in Architecture and Director of the TRANSFORM Institute
Tuesday 04.04.2017
• "What is the quality of the indoor air we breathe? CroqAIR - from research to training" – Joëlle Goyette, Professor at the HEIA-FR in Architecture and FOPH radon delegate for the French-speaking Swiss
• "Smart PCM Walls" – Jacques Robadey, Professor at the HEIA-FR in Telecommunications
Tuesday 14.03.2017
• "THN : Cohabitation human – nature" – Nicole Jan, Associate Professor at the HEIA-FR in Architecture
• "BIM Helvetizierung : Cultural choices upstream technological machinery" – Bernard Cache, Associate Professor at EPFL's Laboratory of Digital Culture for Architectural Projects
Tuesday 07.02.2017
• "Big Building Data" – Jean Hennebert, Professor at the HEIA-FR in Computer Science and Director of the iCoSys Institute Institute
• "Mind the gap: difference between planned and actual consumption of residential buildings" – Joëlle Mastelic, Professor at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in the Institute of Entrepreneurship & Management
Tuesday 10.01.2017
• "Active bending structures and active reuse structures" – Jan Brütting, PhD student at the Structural Exploration Lab at EPFL
and Sofia Colabella, Scientist at the Structural Exploration Lab at EPFL
2016
Tuesday 08.11.2016
• "The Solar Decathlon architectural challenges" – Hans Buri, Professor at the HEIA-FR, Architecture
• "Energetic Refurbishment – a global approach for the building envelope" – Stefanie Schwab, Professor at the HEIA-FR, Architecture
Tuesday 06.09.2016
• "Stronger Buildings with Less Resources and Waste" – Corentin Fivet, Professor of Architecture and Design of Structures in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL
• "Principles, values, propositions: The ideas behind FAR, the new ENAC laboratory for construction and architecture" – Paolo Tombesi, Professor of Construction and Architecture in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL
Tuesday 07.06.2016
• "The Urban project reloaded: towards new links between actors, processes and time frameworks" – Marcus Zepf, Professor at the HEIA-FR, Architecture
• "Invisible architecture" – Matthias Armengaud, Professor at the HEIA-FR, Architecture
Tuesday 05.04.2016
• "Building Information Modeling (BIM): Defining the Legal Issues" – Martin Beyeler, Professor at the Institute for the Swiss and international construction law, UNIFR
• "Tiny House Movement for Switzerland?" – Arnold Rusch, Professor at the Institute for the Swiss and international construction law, UNIFR
Tuesday 01.03.2016
• "New tools for assessing solar access in urban master planning" – Raphaël Compagnon, Professor at the HEIA-FR, TRANSFORM Institute
• "The Swiss Living Challenge project for the Solar Decathlon competition 2017" – Philippe Couty, HEIA-FR Coordinator for Solar Decathlon
Tuesday 02.02.2016
• "Smart windows / Smart algorithms for improved visual comfort and energy savings in buildings" – Nikos Zarkadis, Researcher at EPFL’s Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory and lecturer at HES-SO Geneva (hepia)
• "Future users of the smart living building: results of an online survey" – Derek Christie, researcher and Vincent Kaufmann, Associate Professor, both at EPFL’s Laboratory of Urban Sociology
2015
Tuesday 24.11.2015
• "Modern and Green: heritage, energy, economy" – Giulia Marino, Scientist at EPFL's Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture
• "Integral Mechanical Attachment – Assembly through form a renaissance of traditional wood joinery trough computational tools for design, fabrication and assembly" – Christopher Robeller, Scientist at EPFL's Laboratory for Timber Constructions
Tuesday 27.10.2015
• "Carbon footprint of the Blue Hall project" – Jean-Philippe Bacher, Professor Responsible for Tech Transfer at HEIA-FR and Director of the ENERGY Institute
• "Establishment of a Scientific Concept suitable for the Smart Living Building" – Didier Vuarnoz, EPFL, Scientist for the smart living building
Tuesday 29.09.2015
• "Eco-balance of different construction methods for building slabs – a case study" – Daia Zwicky, Professor at the Institute of Construction and Environmental Technologies iTEC of the HEIA-FR
• "Eco-building" – Endrit Hoxha, Post-doctoral researcher for the smart living lab building
Tuesday 25.08.2015
• "Human Building Interaction" – Denis Lalanne, Professor with Dr Julien Nembrini and Dr Hamed Alavi, all from the Human-IST Research Center, UNIFR
• "Mobility and work interactions in building corridors" – Esther Gonzallez Martinez, Professor, Interaction and social practices research group, UNIFR
Tuesday 30.06.2015
• "Crowd Energy – an innovative approach to smart living" – Stephanie Teufel, Professor and Director and Mario Gstrein, Research Assistant, both at the international institute of management in technology, UNIFR
• "Technical and architectural energy strategies for the smart living lab" – Stefano Cozza, Scientific assistant for the smart living lab building
Tuesday 26.05.2015
• "The 2050 climate change objectives towards the smart living lab project: Identification of the future environmental issues / First solutions" – Thomas Jusselme, Project manager Building 2050
• "Buildings and climate with robustness analysis" – Arianna Brambilla, Post-doctoral researcher for the smart living lab building
Tuesday 28.04.2015
• "Usages and locations" – Florinel Radu, Professor and Director of the TRANSFORM Institute
• "Design for uncertainty" – Michelle Jiang, Post-doctoral researcher for the smart living lab building