6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

230 College Street

To fully take advantage of integrating passive and active solar strategies into sustainable and low-energy buildings, certain choices have to be made at the early design stage. This is the stage when architects have a dominant role in the decision-making process. This talk will present the outcomes of two international research projects: IEA SHC Task 41: Solar Energy and Architecture, and Task 51: Solar Energy in urban planning, whose objectives include providing adequate tools, information and support to architects, planners and urban designers in their efforts to create high quality architecture and urban environments that integrate renewable energy generation. Successful examples ranging from macro (urban design) to micro level (component integration) will be presented in order to create inspiration and stimulate discussion. Dr. Miljana Horvat is educated as an architect (Arch.Dipl.Ing., Belgrade and M.Arch, McGill) who also completed her Ph.D. in Building Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal. Since 2004, she has been a faculty member at the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University. Her research includes design for energy efficiency, performance of building envelopes, sustainability and solar energy in architecture. Dr. Horvat?s research has been supported by funding from NSERC (Discovery), NRCan CANMET/Energy Sustainable Buildings and Communities group, Metcalf Green Prosperity Challenge, to n...