Laboratory
for Sustainable Technologies in Buildings
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
University of Ljubljana
Teaching, research and professional work of colleagues in the
Laboratory for Sustainable Technologies in Buildings, which operates at the Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, is focused on the development of technologies for
efficient energy use and exploitation of renewable energy sources in buildings.
The main research area is the heat transfer and
performance optimization of low-exergy systems for active natural
heating and cooling of buildings, development and modeling of systems for
solar energy utilization for buildings heating and cooling, modeling the thermal environment in buildings
and urban design and modeling based on the
principles of reducing urban and street heat islands. The common point of research is to create optimal
living conditions for the nearly-zero
energy buildings, which will be, according to the guidelines set out in the
EPBD, built after 2020.
In addition to technological measures, to achieve this objective,
a new and interdisciplinary knowledge are needed. Because of that a pedagogic work of LOTZ is
focused on the implementation of new curriculum, which a
laboratory colleagues are developing within the framework of the IEE projects. In the study
process students of various disciplines are involved: mechanical engineering,
architecture and sanitary engineering students, which participates in the processes of planning,
modeling and assessment of the living environment and energy efficiency.
LSTB employees published a number of publications that can be viewed and
ordered in
online bookshop.
LOTZ employees produce expertise in the fields of thermography,
air permeability of buildings, shading and natural lighting, building physics elaborat, energy audits and energy certification of buildings, the feasibility studyes
of distributed cogeneration systems and solar energy utilization, analysis of urban heat islands mitigation.