FAIR
Development of new tools and solutions for smart and high performance ventilated double skin façades
This project aims to strengthen the diffusion of ventilated facades (transparent and opaque) through the development of validated calculation tools, guidelines, measurement methods, and performance indicators capable of responding to the needs of designers and companies in the sector in accordance with regulations techniques and certification schemes. FAIR therefore has the ambition to bring the estimate performance of ventilated facades closer to the actual performance during the operation, through the development of innovative tools to support market players, from the design phase to installation and verification on site, up to continuous data acquisition for control and monitoring.
European Regional Development Fund ERDF 2021-2027 (First Call) (2023)

CRiStAll
Climate Resilient Strategies by Archetype-based Urban Energy Modelling
This project aims to create high-resolution climatic datasets and assess the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects on Italian building archetypes across various urban contexts and climate zones. By simulating future climate scenarios and urban configurations, we seek to enhance climate resilience through surface treatments and building technologies, generating key performance indicators for energy efficiency and thermal comfort. These findings aim to inform policymakers on energy strategies, offering insights into UHI intensity across urban areas for informed decision-making.
European Union – Next Generation EU within the PRIN 2022 PNRR program (D.D.1409 del 14/09/2022 Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca), M4 C2, I 1.1 (2022)

iNEST – Spoke 1
Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem – Spoke 1: Ecosystems for
Mountain Innovation
Research and technology transfer activities in the interdisciplinary area of mountain ecosystems, aimed at the development of new products, processes and lifestyles capable of consolidating or supporting local traditions by (a) enhancing the strengths of mountain resources and (b) hampering the major risks particularly relevant in these contexts (e.g., fragmentation and safety of production systems, hard logistics, hydrological hazards, reduced quality of life).
European Union Next-GenerationEU (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)-Missione 4 Componente 2, Investimento 1.5-D.D. 1058 23/06/2022, ECS_00000043) (2022)

ON Foods – Spoke 2
ON Foods – Research and innovation network on food and nutrition Sustainability, Safety and Security – Working ON Foods
Spoke 2: Smart and circular food system and distribution – DSS4LCO
ON Foods brings together 26 universities, research centres, and companies, leaders in scientific research and sustainable innovation of food systems. Within this project, the Spoke 2 aims to improve the sustainability of food systems through circular economy processes and enhancement of waste, to obtain high value-added products and to develop application of intelligent logistics systems of food distribution. In this framework, the unibz research unit contributes to the development of a decision support system for life cycle optimisation of food manufacturing value chains (DSS4LCO).
European Union Next-GenerationEU (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)-Missione 4 Componente 2, Investimento 1.3-Call for tender No. 341 of 15 March 2022, Concession Decree No. 1550 of 11 October 2022, PE00000003) (2022)

EDIH NOI
Digital Innovation Hub South Tyrol – DIS-HUB
EDIH South Tyrol is part of the European Digital Innovation Hub network, which aims to promote digital innovation to companies, helping them maintening their digital edge (in particular implementing AI-based solutions) and increasing their competitiveness through a strong collaboration with research institutes and infrastructures.
Our research unit is involved especially in the “Skills and training” activities, supporting definition and offering of new courses and teaching iniatives regarding AI-related technologies and solutions.
European Union Next-GenerationEU (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)-Missione 4 Componente 2, Investimento 2.3) (2024)

VIAO-MI
Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Offices: Monitoring and Improvement
The project contributes to assessment and enhancement of air quality in workplaces of commercial and office buildings. It aims to develop advanced controls for mechanical ventilation systems and assess the efficacy of air filters and purifiers to reduce the health hazard risk of pollutants and pathogens distributions in office buildings. Proposed controls are going to be defined to optimize occupants’ health safety, wellbeing and productivity and building energy performance.
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2021)

SENSHOME
The sensitive home: sensors for special environments: the home as normal as possible and as special as necessary
The project aims to develop new smart home designs and technologies for people with autism spectrum disorder and disabilities. Specifically, the new smart homes are designed according to a user-centred approach and will be able to recognize critical events and to perform indoor condition monitoring and controlling, as well as to enhance independent living for their occupants.
Interreg V-A Italia-Austria 2014-2020 (2019)

BIGWOOD
Creating awareness and reduction of prejudices and barriers for high-volume wooden constructions
The project aimed to develop an interregional network to enforce large-volume timber constructions and to reduce the existing barriers. In order to achieve such goal, in the framework of the project a network and a platform for stakeholders will be developed, new tools for information and education proposed, and timber mock-ups and prototypes built for research and development purposes.
Interreg V-A Italia-Austria 2014-2020 (2019)

MC4.0
MASS CUSTOMIZATION 4.0 – development and diffusion of Mass Customization and Tailoring (MCT) competences, to provide SMEs with advanced expertise and tools to better adapt products and services to user needs and quicker respond to industry 4.0 changes
The project launched the new MC4.0 Develop & Application (DEA) centres, created to assist SMEs in providing Smart Living solutions tailored on customer’s specific needs, delivering services using both internal and external resources, networked as in a cluster, and making related competencies accessible to the market. To achieve these goals, advanced configurators were developed for the DEA centres in agreement with the Industry 4.0 approaches.
Interreg V-A Italia-Austria 2014-2020 (2019)

GPP4Build
Green Public Procurement for Buildings
The project designed and set up a transnational network of competence centres and competence bearers on green public procurement for buildings and minimum environmental criteria, in order to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and facilitate their participation to public tenders. In this framework, particular attention was paid to timber constructions, concrete constructions, and window supply chains.
Interreg V-A Italia-Austria 2014-2020 (2019)

E2I@NOI
Definition of a System of Laboratories for the development, characterization and the technology transfer for Smart Energy Buildings
The project E2I@NOI dealt with the development of laboratories and competences to analyse the interaction between indoor environmental quality IEQ, occupants’ behaviour, and energy efficiency in the framework of smart energy buildings.
ERDF (EFRE/FESR) Call 2017 – Research and Innovation (3rd call) European Commission (research) (2017)

ClimaIndustry2
Creation of a network of the subjects from the innovation research and the production world on the topic of energy efficiency in production processes in the Province of Bolzano.
FSE (2014)

ENLAN
EN-LAN: ENvelope-LAbs Network dell’Alto Adige per la valutazione prestazionale dell’involucro edilizio
ERDF (EFRE/FESR) (2012)

TIMBER
TIMber Buildings for Environmental Respite: Series of Lectures
Series of lectures and group activities hosted by the Euregio Tirol Suedtirol Trentino universities on high performance timber constructions, with the participation of students and lecturers to foster collaboration on integrated design.
Funded by: Euregio Mobility Fund (2023)

TeSmES
Smart Technologies for Sustainable Buildings
The TeSmES project focused on analyzing the possibilities offered by building automation solutions to transform existing buildings into Smart Buildings. The main objective is to optimize the systems within the buildings, with a particular emphasis on intelligent control solutions.
The project was developed in collaboration between the Free University of Bolzano and the company myGEKKO / Ekon and funded in the framework of the Fusion Grant 2022.
Funded by: Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse / Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio (2022)

Klimahaus und Energieproduktion
Klimahaus und Energieproduktion (Förderung der technologie- und innovationsbasierten Forschung)
Research capacity building related to the areas of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings and in the Biomass to Energy Processes.
Capacity Building – Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige / Autonome Provinz Bozen – Südtirol (2013)

TimBEESt
Timber building with enhanced energy and structural performance
Improvement of the summer behavior of timber buildings without worsening their structural and seismic qualities and identification of technologies optimizing the trade-off between economic results, indoor comfort, energy performance and seismic behavior in different Italian climates.
Funded by: Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige / Autonome Provinz Bozen – Südtirol, L.P. 13.12.2006 N. 14 (2013)

Scoreline
Special comfort for educational indoor environment
This project contributed to the preliminary development of a methodology to (1) identify which environmental aspects (specifically, thermal, visual, acoustic and indoor air quality stimuli) are more impactful on the well-being of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in educational environments, and (2) to support the design of dedicated spaces for ASD students, as well as to optimize the control of the HVAC systems. Particular attention was dedicated to the correlation between environmental stimuli and the duration of crises of ASD students.
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2021)

SOMNE
Bolzano Solar Irradiance Monitoring Network
The project aimed to collect solar irradiance measurements integrating the current local network of meteorological stations with new ones, set up in different points of Bolzano. These data were used to assess the capabilities of current solar irradiance models in the mountain environment and to develop new models for this territory.
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2019)

IndAir-Edu
Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Effectiveness in Educational Buildings
In the framework of this project, several monitoring campaigns were performed in unibz teaching environments and in different local schools in order to assess the IAQ as well as the adequacy and the effectiveness of ventilation. Results were presented and discussed with the Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano and guidelines proposed to improve ventilation in educational buildings.
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2018)

HUCED
Human-Centred Design of the Built Environment: definition of a methodology for the experimental assessment of the overall Indoor Environmental Quality
The project aimed at filling some gaps in the current state-of-the-art regarding the global assessment of the Indoor Environmental Quality. Specifically, while each environmental stimulus is commonly measured and evaluated independently of the other ones, occupants are actually solicitated by several stressors at the same time. In this framework, the project provided an in-depth experimental investigation regarding correlations and interactions between the different environmental stimuli.
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2017)

IBAS
Intelligent Building Automation System for optimization of energy consumptions and indoor environmental quality
Development of an Intelligent Building Automation System (IBAS) integrated with the building monitoring system, able to give continuous feedback on the indoor conditions and, thanks to weather forecast, to define advanced control strategies (e.g., model predictive control MPC).
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2016)

Air-to-air heat recovery in HVAC systems
Designing and building a laboratory test facility to measure the recovery efficiency of heat exchangers. The focus was on membrane-based air-to-air cross-flow heat exchangers. The facility was designed not only to be able to operate in the conditions prescribed by the current technical standards for the assessment of the efficiency but also to work under different conditions (e.g., dynamic conditions), more representative of the actual operative ones.
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2011)

ForSOLARdrying
Modelling and designing solar barn dryers for forages according to modular approaches
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2011)

Fluidodynamic and energetic behavior of ventilated opaque components
Funded by: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2010)

The Building Physics Research Group