BIPV-Entwurfstool
| Project Title | BIPV-Entwurfstool |
| Project Subtitle | Target-based potential analysis and design tool for building-integrated photovoltaic systems in the early planning phase |
| Projekt Leader | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Engelmann (TU Dresden) |
| Employee | Dipl.-Ing. Christian Popp (TU Dresden) |
| Partners | ee concept GmbH SOLARSCHMIEDE Software GmbH |
| Funding | BMWK – Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM) |
| Time Span | 2022-2024 |
Project Description
According to the Climate Protection Plan 2050 of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of November 2016, "energy efficiency and the integration of renewable energies in individual buildings are the essential cornerstones" to achieve a climate-neutral building stock - free of climate-damaging emissions. Building-mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems offer enormous potential for this, but this potential is usually not fully recognized and utilized in the design and planning of buildings. There is a lack of planning tools that can be integrated in the early design process to comprehensively identify the building-specific PV potentials.
Therefore, the goal of the project is to develop a potential analysis and design tool for building-integrated photovoltaic systems that can be used in the early design and planning phases. The core functions of the tool are a 3D model for mapping the design, on which an area potential analysis of all building surfaces is carried out, the recording of the building-specific energy demand profile, the determination of life cycle characteristic values of different PV installation variants and their comparison with the values of conventional reference designs, and the linking of the calculation results for multi-criteria optimization and target-size-based system design. In this way, the PV areas that best meet the building-specific energy demand are determined. The life cycle assessment and the comparison of PV systems to conventional constructions allows to evaluate them with regard to the associated emitted greenhouse gas potentials and environmental impacts but also life cycle costs and possible payback periods.
The development of the BIPV design tool provides planners and architects with a tool that can be used at an early stage to analyze the design with regard to building-specific PV potentials and to obtain relevant planning information and characteristic values. This makes it possible to optimize the design according to the planning goals and the exploitation of PV potentials already in the first determination phase. In this way, the integration of photovoltaics into the design process and thus - in the sense of the climate protection plan - the use of low-emission energies in the building are accelerated.
Contact person TU Dresden
© Franziska Rehde
Research Associate
NameDipl.-Ing. Christian Popp
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Institute of Building Construction
Institute of Building Construction
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ABS 30, Haus 116, Room 06-012 August-Bebel-Straße 30
01219 Dresden
© Franziska Rehde
Professor of Sustainable Building Construction
NameProf. Dr.-Ing. Michael Engelmann
Head of the Institute of Building Construction
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Institute of Building Construction
Institute of Building Construction
Visiting address:
ABS 30, Haus 116, 06-018 August-Bebel-Straße 30
01219 Dresden