The MIT Portugal Program invites you to join professor Christoph Reinhart of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a three-hour workshop (from 9 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.) on Wednesday, October 13, at Técnico, Alameda campus.
This workshop is organized by the MIT Portugal Program (MPP) in collaboration with IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research and Instituto Superior Técnico.
• Title: “Modeling resource-efficient districts with UBEM Workshop”.
This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to concepts and workflows to model buildings’ operational energy use and embodied energy, as well as neighbourhoods’ walkability and urban food production potential, both for new
and existing districts. The resulting urban building energy models (UBEM) can be used to develop resource-efficient new developments, to help municipalities develop greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction plans for their jurisdictions, to convince citizens to retrofit their homes, and to coordinate development of the building stock and the electric grid.
• Who can apply?
The workshop is structured for a max of 15 students preferably from architecture and engineering fields and 5 practitioners from architecture and urban planning firms. If possible, we will pair the students with practitioners to develop a high-level carbon reduction strategy for existing buildings in the Eastern side of Lisbon (Beato, Marvila or Parque das Nações), build an UBEM of a typical neighbourhood and quantify retrofitting costs and expected savings for the neighbourhood.
• Registration: until 8th October. This hands-on workshop can only host a limited number of participants. Your registration at the workshop will be confirmed via email.
PLEASE NOTE
• To participate in this workshop, you will need a newish Windows PC.
• If you have a Mac you can also participate, as long you have Windows installed on your laptops (on Bootcamp or using a virtual machine).
