CLUSTER-EEB-Zero Energy Buildings In Smart Urban Districts - Doctoral Program in Urban and Regional Development XXX Cycle Interuniversity ...

Doctoral Program in Urban and
      Regional Development XXX Cycle
Interuniversity Department of Regional
 and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

                                                  CLUSTER-EEB-Zero
                                                  Energy Buildings
                     Italian Technology Cluster
                        for Smart Communities
                                                  In Smart Urban
                                                  Districts

Hello!
                       I am Sara Torabi
    I am here because I want to tell you about my experience of
              CLUSTER Scholarship
EEB-Zero Energy Buildings In Smart Urban Districts

Ph.D. Cluster
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                                   Project
RESEARCH 3 years

                                             Internship

                                                                     RESEARCH
                                   Courses            Study Abroad

                                                                      3 years
                    Conference

                                                   Defense
                                                    Ph.D.

THE PROJECT

The EEB (Zero Energy Buildings in Smart Urban
Districts) project aims to pursue the increase the
energy efficiency in buildings, and then of urban
districts, through the pervasive use of technologies
for the real-time monitoring and control of
environmental parameters and of the energy
production/consumption by means of smart devices.
Collected information were be delivered to distributed
and remote platforms through a suitable communication
and data management infrastructure. Suitable web
services were then be used to offer this data to
applications used by both final users and providers.
The infrastructure is supposed to allow for the
interoperability among devices over heterogeneous
networks to facilitate the interaction between the Smart
Buildings inside a Smart-District.

Politecnico di Torino
                                                                         Piemonte
                            Politecnico di Milano
                                                                         Lombar
                            Università degli Studi di Trento
            University                                                   Trentino Alto Adige
                            Università di Bologna (subco di ST)
                                                                         Emilia Romagna dia
                            Università Politecnico delle Marche
                                                                         Marche
                            (subco di Polito)
Partners                    STMicroelectronics                           Sicilia Lombardia
                            Telecom Italia                               Lazio
                            Selex ES Finmeccanica Global Services        Lazio
                            Enel Distribuzione S.p.A.                    Lazio
                            Enel Ingegneria e Ricerca S.p.A              Lazio
                            Expert System                                Emilia Romagna
            GI e PMI        Labidee                                      Marche
                            Logical System                               Marche
                            UMPI                                         Emilia Romagna
                            Power Evolution                              Sicilia
                            BMS impianti                                 Lombardia
                            Media Italy SRL                              Lombardia
                            Metoda                                       Lazio
           Duration:
           CLUSTER, 2014 – 2017

           Partners:
           Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di Trento, Telecom Italia,
           STMicroelectronics, Selex Elsag, Finmeccanica Group Real Estate SpA, Enel Distribuzione SpA,
           Enel Ingegneria e Ricerca SpA, Expert System, Labidee, LogicalSystems, UMPI, Power Evolution,
           BMS Impianti, Media Italy SRL, Metoda SpA.

Case Study:
Demonstrator   Settimo Torinese

COURESE

Behavioural theories
                   Data mining concepts and algorithms
                   Energy in smart buildings
                   Individual and population decisions in agglomeration economies
                   Geomatics and GIS for environmental application and regional planning
                   Landscape policies and planning
  Hard Courses     Metodi per il supporto delle decisioni
                   Multicriteria analysis and strategic assessment
                   Smart City Metrics for the Evaluation of the Urban Morphology
                   Social research methods in urban and regional studies
                   Sostenibilità energetica ed ambientale del territorio
                   Territories in crisis (didattica di eccellenza)
                   Urban protocols and community sustainability assessment in urban planning

                   Fondi competitivi per la ricerca: dall'idea alla scrittura del proge
                   Lingua italiana I livello
  Soft Courses     Managing Ph. D. Thesis as a Project (didattica di eccellenza)
                   Topics In Internet & Society Interdisciplinary Studies

*Summer Schools, Seminars, Workshops

STUDY ABRAOD

6 months stay at EPFL | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
                                  University
SOLAR ENERGY AND BUILDING
   PHYSICS LABORATORY         •   necessary and bridging steps        •   writing a joint paper to submit
         LESO-PB                  toward the development for              it for the consideration to a
                                  my Ph.D. thesis.                        peer-revised journal.
                              •   mutale benefits. I intended to      •   monthly seminar, which I
                                  expose the themes of my Ph.D.           always attended and from
                                  and my own developed field of           which I obtained many
                                  research    to    the   research        feedbacks and suggestions for
                                  community at LESO-PB to                 my thesis.
                                  obtain more comprehensive           •   regular lunches, meetings, and
                                  perspectives on the issues that I       coffees during which many
QS-World University Ranking
                                  work on.                                useful ideas were exchanged.
                              •   I was also very eager to benefit    •   many laboratory members
  EPFL is 12th in the world       from the wider context of EPFL,         while at EPFL to discuss my
                                  itself well known for its               thesis.
   EPFL is 3rd in Europe          strength in the urban/district
                                  energy planning research
                                  area.

“
     Turning back on these last few months, I would
     have to say that this experience was the great
     opportunity for my Ph.D. I am very pleased that
     we have achieved several outcomes from this
     visiting and I noticed a significant productivity
     gain, as a result of being in a new environment,
     particularly an environment as EPFL. The
     success of the collaboration has created the
     relationship between Politecnico and EPFL.

12

INTERNSHIP

300 hours of Internship
                                  • gain valuable industry knowledge
                                  • get my foot in the door at a company in my
                                      field
                                  •   develop my professional skills
                                  •   got something to show a potential employer
                                      next time I am in an interview
                                  •   may be recruited to work full-time
    best and brightest in the     •   grow my network of professional contacts
fast-paced fiber-optic world of   •   confidence in professional environments will
      telecommunications              improve
                                  •   It's a low-commitment way to test out a job
                                      and career path

RESEARCH

Main Objective
 Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System for urban energy planning in
                             the built environment
The Ph.D. research focuses on the problem of ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF THE BUILDING STOCK in the urban environment,
using GIS TO MAP ENERGY CONSUMPTION. The aim of the project is to explore ENERGY CONSUMPTION PATTERNS based
on STATISTICAL-ENGINEERING methods to provide a methodology for evaluating different saving scenarios based on
multi-criteria analysis in the context of policy implementation to promote effective and sustainable urban planning. This fact
can help to assess, over a mid to long term period, the mix of measures by analyzing meaningful scenarios focused on
ENERGY CONSUMPTIONS/ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS/ ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRITERIA. The RESULT is able to be used
to VISUALIZE INTERACTIVELY BY STAKEHOLDERS and explore a range of possible futures for assisting urban planners, policy
makers and built environment stakeholders in their efforts to plan, design and manage LOW_CARBON CITIES.

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CONFERENCE
      &
PUBLICATIONS

Future Buildings and Districts - Energy Efficiency from Nano to Urban
                 Scale (CISBAT 2017), Lausanne, Switzerland

                 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research
                 Societies (IFORS)- Quebec City- Canada

                 Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016-Shanghai-China
  9 Journales
2 Book Chapter
                 Energy Systems Conference-2016-London-UK

 4 Proceeding
                 9th International Conference Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial
                 Buildings and Smart-Frankfurt, Germany

                 Towards Post-Carbon Cities (SBE2016)-Torino-Italy

                 2nd IBPSA-Italy conference-Bozen-Bolzano-Italy

                 6th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2015)-Torino-Italy

THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me at sara.torabi@polito.ite