Five presentations were given by Task 56 Experts during Session D3: "Active Façades for Ventilation, Heating and Cooling"
	at the 13th Conference on Advanced Building Skins in Bern on October 1, 2018. Website: abs.green
	 
	Session D3 was led by Task 56 expert Fabian Ochs, University of Innsbruck, Austria
	 
	
		
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					Active roofs and façades technologies 
				
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						Active facades - building integrated solar collectors
 
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						The ”Summer garden” concept
 
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						Active House evaluation of the energy and indoor climate
 
				 
				
					Jakob Klint, Kuben Management, Denmark 
				
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					Advanced daylighting systems and combined lighting and thermal simulation 
				
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						Daylight system characterization
 
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						Integrated design for day- and electric light and user comfort
 
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						Comparison of a simplified and a complex simulation approach
 
				 
				
					David Geisler-Moroder, Bartenbach GmbH, Austria 
				
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					Solar thermal façade systems – An interdisciplinary approach 
				
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						Three new technologies of aesthetic solar thermal façades
 
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						Solar thermal venetian blinds as adaptive energy harvesting
 
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						Thermally activated building components
 
				 
				
					Christoph Maurer, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany 
					Paul Denz, Priedemann Facade-Lab, Germany 
				
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					Heating with façade-integrated heat pumps 
				
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						Compact façade integrated MVHR and heat pump for decentral ventilation & heating
 
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						Potential of onsite-PV to reduce non-renewable primary energy consumption
 
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						Results of the project "SaLüH"
 
				 
				
					Fabian Ochs, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
				
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					Picture credits: Aagesen, Klint (Kuben Management) 
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					Heating with a PV Façade in a Passive House 
				
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						Passive House with PV façade and electric heating
 
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						Low costs and minimal installation effort vs. performance
 
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						PV potential and evaluation of primary energy consumption
 
				 
				
					Georgios Dermentzis, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
				
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	The Session C7 "Façade Integrated Day- and LED-Lighting Basedon Micro-Optical Components"
	- was led by Task 56 Expert Jan de Boer, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Stuttgart, Germany. One presentation disseminated contributions to Task 56.
	 
	
		
			
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					Lab measurements and field testing of integrated systems 
				
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						Assessment of photometric properties
 
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						Relation between photometric properties and lighting conditions in indoor spaces
 
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						Energy performance and user acceptance studies
 
				 
				
					Jan de Boer, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Stuttgart, Germany 
				
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