Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Buildings

            LUND UNIVERSITY (LU), SWEDEN

            Lund University, founded in 1666, is Scandinavia's largest institution for education and research, active in the cities Lund, Malmö and Helsingborg in South Sweden. It has 5,500 staff members, more than 40,000 students, 100 educational programmes, 18 international masters programmes and 1 400 courses covering all disciplines. Almost 300 courses are, or can be, held in English for the benefit of our inter-national exchange students. The University has a comprehensive global network of contacts and participates in many of the European Union’s education and research programmes. The faculty of Engineering (LTH) is the largest of the 8 faculties at Lund University and comprises of schools in Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering among others. Every school comprises of a number of departments, of most interest for this project is the department of Building Physics and the department of Housing, Development & Management (HDM). The research and education areas in the Building Physics Department include energy efficiency and environmental impact of buildings, implementation of solar energy in buildings, heat- and moisture transport and air movements. The department is active in international projects, committees and collaborations both within EC and outside. The participants in the proposed project are: Professor Jesper Arfvidsson, Chair in Building Physics, assoc professor Dan Gaffner, senior lecturer in Building Technology and technology licentiate Elisabeth Kjellsson, researcher in solar energy. Housing, Development & Management Dep (HDM) undertakes research and training in housing from an international perspective: planning, design, creation, use and management, and the connection between a home and its surroundings. The goal is to improve the processes leading to good housing and sustainable development, especially for the poor. Projects of special interest for this application are the ongoing projects; Sustainable Buildings in Jordan and Conception Architectural adaptée à l'enivronnement, Tunisia. Completed projects are: Environnement Urbain, Morocco; Architecture Adaptée aux Zones Arides, Tunisia; and Materiaux thermiquement isolants, Algeria. In most of these projects Dr Djamel Ouahrani, architect and researcher on climatic design, has been active, in some projects as project leader. Research and education in energy in buildings has since the 1970s been an important area for Lund University, the faculty of Engineering (LTH) has been the leading faculty in Sweden in this area.

            CAIRO UNIVERSITY (CU)

            Cairo University, founded in 1908, is the largest university in Egypt with 200,000 students during the year 2005–06. It is a public institute and plays a major role in higher education in the country. It has a number of campuses in Egypt as well as in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. The university has created two other universities in Egypt, in Fayoum and Beni Suef. It is financed by the Government of Egypt and enjoys administrative and financial autonomy. Instruction is given in English and Arabic. The Faculty of Engineering was founded in the 1920s. The principal mission of the Faculty is to develop engineers in 14 disciplines, including architectural engineering, which embraces energy and environment, building technology, community research and planning. It offers consultancy services and capacity building services to the industry in Egypt. Professor Ahmed Abdin, proposed co-ordinator for this project application, is the principal founder of the Environmental Architecture section and is currently the co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Environmental Design and Planning section. Prof Abdin did his doctral thesis at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and now teaches at Cairo University in the subjects of Environmental Control, Environmental Architecture, Building System Integration and Energy and Environmental Sustainability. He has carried out and supervised research in the areas of environmental control and energy efficiency. He is also a very successful practising architect with a special interest for the design of energy efficient and sustainable buildings.  Some interesting buildings designed by him include apartments houses and a library in the new city 6 October City west of Cairo.

NEWCASTLE  UNIVERSITY (NU)

Newcastle University, situated in Newcastle, UK, can trace it origins back to1834 becoming a University in its own right in 1963. The University is part of the Russell group of principle research universities. The University has approximately 18000 undergraduate students and 4000 postgraduate

The School of Architecture Planning and Landscape provides a wide choice of degrees in the Built environment with the majority of student studying a design discipline . The School offers under-graduate, masters and Doctoral programmes of study. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has awarded the Architecture programmes a very high teaching quality rating (23 points out of a possible 24 one of the highest scores nation wide). Dr Dudek has an undergraduate degree in Engineering Mathematics from Nottingham University and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering also from Nottingham University. He is active both as a consultant engineer and as a lecturer in architectural Technology and teaches on architectural design and Architectural Technology applications.

THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (KTH), STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, founded in 1827, has over 11,000 undergraduate students, 1,500 postgraduate students and 3,100 staff members.  KTH is an international institution with established research and educational exchanges all over the world. KTH has a lot of experience ifrom coordinating and participating in several TEMPUS projects, some of them regarding curriculum development in the Middle East countries, such as Jordan, Egypt and Palestine. KTH is especially strong in the energy related studies through its Energy department, which offers a Master’s degree programme taught in English in the topic of Sustainable Energy Engineering with two majors in Sustainable Power Generation and Sustainable Energy Utilization. KTH will support this project primarely with Inter-Tempus project coaching.

SHOROUK ACADEMY (SA)

El-Shorouk Academy is a private institute accommodating 10,000 students and is operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt. It is located in El-Shorouk City, 25 Km off Cairo. In addition to the schools of Management, and Computer & Information Technology, the Academy encompasses one of the pioneer private engineering institutions in Egypt, founded in 1996. The High Institute of Engineering graduates Engineers in six departments, amongst which is Architecture. Duration of the study is five years. Taught curricula are all in line with corresponding departments in local State Universities. Instruction medium operates in Arabic and English languages. Chaired by Prof. Sami Serageldin, the Department of Architecture developed particular interest in environmental architecture, both in ecological and cultural senses. This interest is realized in the specialized environmental control courses, as well as the environmental applications in architectural design and execursion courses. This strategy is strengthened by the engagement of about 45 part-time faculty and visiting lecturers [in addition to the full-time staff], who are invited from other local institutions to maintain diversity, broaden perspectives and enrich the content of the taught subject; as well as extending affiliations with other architectural institutions. From the department of Architecture Dr Ehab Rached and Dr Sherif El-Fiki will take part in all the phases of the project.

INDIVIDUAL EXPERT

Dr Mats Areskoug, associate professor in physics, at the School at Teacher Education in the Malmö University, will be an expert in setting up appropriate experiments. He is a leading expert in Sweden in teaching environmental physics and has written textbooks in environmental physics and energy for sustainable development.

Cairo University	Faculty of Engineering	Lund University	Tempus