2019 - Healthy Buildings Day
"Renovactive Overview & Demonstration Results" by Friedl Decock, Petrus Te Braak, Thorbjørn Asmussen
Speakers
Thorbjørn Færing Asmussen
Indoor Climate Engineer, Knowledge Centre for Daylight, Energy & Indoor Climate
VELUX Group
Friedl Decock
Building Physics Consulting Engineer, Partner
Daidalos Engineers
Petrus Te Braak
Sociologist
Vrije Universitet Brussels
Presentation video from the VELUX Healthy Buildings Day that took place in Paris on 10 October 2019. For more information please visit https://www.velux.com/veluxdaysinparis
Friedl Decock is building physics consulting engineer and partner at Daidalos Peutz. Her motivation is to help build a sustainable society. In her work she inspires and supports architects and building owners in the design and construction of energy-efficient comfortable buildings and neighborhoods. Also as a volunteer, she is committed as energy expert of her home town Mechelen and recently founded a citizen movement, Klimaan. With Klimaan they want to enhance sustainable transition by an energy cooperative and by taking care of the commons. Vision with collaboration can change the world. Petrus te Braak is a sociologist at the research group Tempus Omnia Revelat of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He studies various topics related to human behaviour from a cultural sociological pespective. Recently, Petrus was involved in a study on relocation motives of former Brusselians, as well as the sociological monitoring of the family that lives in the RenovActive house. Thorbjørn Færing Asmussen joined the VELUX Group in 2009, as a member of DEIC. His primary tasks are working with indoor climate monitoring and analyzing, advanced building simulation, collaborations with researchers and digesting science into a language understood by everyone. DEIC is the collected knowledge centre in the area of daylight, energy and indoor climate – related to the effects of VELUX product in buildings. Hereunder, to ensure relevance and to promote expanded use of VELUX products by providing specific documentation and information within the fields of daylighting, ventilation, indoor air quality, energy use and thermal comfort.
