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International Conference
Renewables in a Changing Climate: From Nano to Urban Scale
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SOLAR ENERGY AND BUILDING PHYSICS LABORATORY

Head of Laboratory: Prof. J.-L. Scartezzini

Mission: generation of advanced scientific knowledge geared to the requirements of the built environment and sustainable development

Founded in 1988, the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) is part of the Civil Engineering Institute (IIC) of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)

HIGHLIGHTS

LESO-PB spin-off company SOLSTIS, founded in 1996, has won the contract to install the first part of what is going to be the largest building integrated photovoltaic power plant in Switzerland on the roofs of the EPFL (2 MW). >> ESOPP project website


 

Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Conversion
The LESO-PB Nano Solar Group develops a new generation of solar energy systems thanks to nanotechnologies. >> More about the group's activities and lab

 

NEWS

what is excellence?

What is excellence?
In search of excellence and inspired by Prof. Scartezzini's ground breaking research in Daylighting, Bank Julius Bär wanted to know how he defined excellence. Portrait by internationally renowned photographer Marco Grob.
>> Interview.

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Expert paper in Detail
The state of the art of architectural integration of solar thermal systems presented in the renowned Review of Architecture DETAIL by Christian Roecker and Maria Cristina Munari Probst.
>> Abstract
>> Architectural Integration Group