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MICA (Monitoring Internal Comfort Application): A new BIM tool processing IEQ data input for building management and energetic optimizations

Façades are one of the main elements that affect indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in buildings and building performance. Given the increasing development of sensor technology, the collection of building monitoring data is useful to understand whether the building and in particular the façade system performs as designed.

A 6 metre long glass footbridge for the Ancient Public Slaughterhouse of Pisa

This paper illustrates the design process and the load testing of a steel-reinforced laminated glass beam built for a 6 m span glass footbridge. This specific glass footbridge has been designed and tested to join two existing floors of the main room of a refurbished masonry building of the 19th century public slaughterhouse of Pisa. To meet the needs for transparency asked by the Municipality of Pisa the beams, the running surface and the balustrades, were made of laminated glass. The project started with a design of a 5790 mm length beam which has been designed and checked using analytical and numerical modelling. Previously a series of 4-point bending experimental tests had been performed on 6 specimens of 2000 mm steel-reinforced glass beams at the University of Pisa in order to validate the accuracy of both the numerical and the analytical modelling. A final load testing has been done on the footbridge and the results have been compared with the numerical findings.

Design of a Glass Walkway in the Historical City of Pisa using Jumbo Glass Slabs

The project for a structural glass walkway originates from the plan of the Municipality of Pisa to connect two historical public buildings of the old town centre, respectively Palazzo Pretorio and Palazzo delle Logge di Banchi, see figures 1a) and b). The design, signed by arch. Roberto Pasqualetti, was developed by paying specific attention to the architectural and historical value of these two buildings. The basic idea is to build a footbridge that does not alter the Renaissance perspective of this area.

The energy gallery: a pilot project in Pisa

The climate crisis will be the main driver of social pressure in the next twenty years. Large-scale urban coal tarred areas contribute immensely to the heat island effect and to excessive carbon emissions. One of the strategies that can guarantee results, in short term, is introducing energy generating galleries that can transform urban districts into power generators. Urban centres have a great capacity to be converted into beneficial galleries that can generate electricity using renewable sources and house within them a micro-climatic atmosphere that encourages urban agriculture. The present study provides possible solutions and applications of this approach through parametric model design and its simulated computer sided analysis in order to produce results for power generation (energy- plus), and overall benefits of comfort of proposing Power Plant Greenhouse Solar Galleries. The Energy Gallery project aims at identifying the potential of a new strategic design for energy generation at a urban scale. By strategically locating energy-generating/ reducing systems like modular pavilions, green houses, winter gardens, or public facilities in the city's open spaces, we could reduce dioxide emissions by engineered transparency. International Conference at glasstec, Düsseldorf, Germany 21 and 22 October 2014