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INTERACTIVE SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS
CLIMA 2022
CLIMA 2022 is set to be a conference completely dedicated to sharing knowledge, inspiration and motivation. Sharing knowledge to face the challenges ahead, inspiration to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions and motivation to step up and work together to make that difference.
As a conference attendant you will be challenged to think out of the box and to look beyond the regular frontiers. The conference will offer you ample possibilities to be inspired, to exchange ideas, to better get to know people you know already and to meet new people.
Workshop | Future ventilation solutions and indoor environment
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Monday May 23 |
| Time | 10:30 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Energy |
| Location | Rotterdam C |
Ventilation is responsible for maintaining sound indoor environment with a fair amount of energy consumed. With tightened requirements on energy efficiency in future building, ventilation is expected to play a more important role. Innovative and yet practical solution is to be explored to achieve…
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Seminar | “Towards Smart Ventilation” in Mid-sized buildings
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Monday May 23 |
| Time | 10:30 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Energy |
| Location | Dock 12 |
This interactive session is a seminar/webinar chaired by Hilde Breesch, and co-chaired by Jelle Laverge, Ivan Verhaert, Douaa Al Assaad, Twan Van Hooff. It is an outcome of the collaborative work of the Flemish VLAIO Flux50 strategic basic research (SBO) project “Towards Smart Ventilation in mid-…
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Workshop | Trigeneration systems based on heat pumps with natural refrigerants and multiple renewable sources
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Tuesday May 24 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Energy |
| Location | Rotterdam C |
TRI-HP project will develop and demonstrate flexible energy-efficient and affordable trigeneration systems. The systems will be based on electrically driven natural refrigerant heat pumps coupled with renewable electricity generators (PV), using cold (ice slurry), heat and electricity storages to…
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Workshop | Digital transformation facilitating building performance convergence and enabling operational rating
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Wednesday May 25 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Digitization |
| Location | Rotterdam C |
The main scope is to raise awareness/promote, collect feedback and explore use cases on the U-CERT digital tools while also presenting the overall contribution of U-CERT in the evolution process of Building Performance Assessment and Certification at both EU and national level. The content will b…
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Workshop | The Future of HVAC as a Service
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Wednesday May 25 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Digitization |
| Location | Dock 15 |
This workshop will deep dive into the potential future of the HVAC industry when it comes to sustainable, shared and digitalized solutions and will allow participants to open our minds to what that future could look like through the unique, collected lens of experts from across the industry. We w…
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Workshop | Efficiency beyond the building: the leverage of advanced HVAC control systems in the management of Energy Communities
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Wednesday May 25 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Digitization |
| Location | Dock 6 |
The workshop will introduce the principle of operation of Artificial Intelligence-based advanced BACS and focus on how these algorithms can be exploited to reach optimal performance of the HVAC systems with respect to different objective functions, ranging from occupants’ comfort requests to comm…
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Seminar | Education & Learning in the HVAC sector: what’s next? Session 2: shaping the future: blue print for professional continuous education
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Tuesday May 24 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Learning & Education |
| Location | Dock 6 |
The workshop with two sessions of 60 min will take place as part of the Clima 2022 conference in Rotterdam. The results of the workshop will be compiled in a white paper addressing the question: “How to accelerate continuous professional development in the European HVAC sector?”. The two sessions…
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Discussion forum | Accounting for occupants in building design and operation
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Tuesday May 24 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Health & Comfort |
| Location | Dock 11 |
Literature shows that occupant-building interactions impact building performance and are often a result of occupants’ dissatisfaction with indoor environmental quality. However, occupants seem to be only limitedly considered during building design and operation. Obviously, there is a signif…
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Workshop | CEN-CE scheme roll-out: harmonised training and certification of experts on EPB standards
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Tuesday May 24 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Learning & Education |
| Location | Dock 15 |
Maintaining a constant exchange of information will be needed between universities, manufacturers, policy makers and practitioners (designers, installers, operators, auditors) to guarantee the feedback loop is closed and all lessons learned captured, while taking into consideration the sectorR…
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Course | Masterclass circularity
Workshop & Interactive session| Date | Wednesday May 25 |
| Time | 11:00 – 12:30 |
| Theme | Circularity |
| Location | Rotterdam A |
Georg Fischer has prepared a compelling business case study which addresses different parts of the circular value chain. This business case scrutinizes the potential of taking products back at the end of their life cycle, repurposing and giving them a second life. There are manifold interesting c…
More information- CLIMA workshops
CLIMA workshops are interactive sessions organised by international academic expert groups (Task Forces), European research projects and supporter companies discussing various scientific and technology topics. The 1.5 hours sessions feature short presentations from key academic and industry expert followed by at least half an hour discussion or other interactive group work. - Interactive sessions
These 1 hour sessions belong to the scientific part of the congress and as such, went through a review process. Abstracts submission for Interactive sessions is closed.- Discussion forums – highly interactive sessions. At least 50 % of the time involves attendee interaction. Forums are discussion sessions among experts on trending topics, based for example on propositions or two different opinions. Forum can be organized offline or online and will take 1 hour.
- Seminars (webinars) – thematic, more scientific oriented sessions with room for discussion. The session starts with prepared presentations on a specific topic which do not have to be connected to any submitted paper. Significant time of the seminar should be left for the discussion and Q&A. Seminars which will be organized online are called Webinars. Seminars and webinars have the same rules/set-up and duration of 1 hour.
- Courses – the focus is more on practical learning and demonstration given by experts, such as new methods or software.