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Assembling the façade prototype of Wiser

During the 14 and 15 of April 2025 the prototype that will be monitored was assembled in Bellvitge School, in l'Hospitalet de llobregat.

Wiser Research Plan presentation

PhD candidate Yanjie Li presents his thesis resrarch plan entitled "Multi-Objective Optimization for Retrofitting School Facades."

Impact test of the solution

Impact test of the solution using the prototype on 27/3/2025 with initial results superior to existing similar solutions.

LES workshop with students

The researcher Eva Crespo, head of the SMArT research group, holds a LES workshop (Projecte: Llavor Energètica i Salut. From school to home) on 21/3/2025 prior to the installation of the prototype.

https://les.upc.edu/ca

Final degree project presentation related to Wiser

The student Sofia Perdomo presents her final degree project on 20/2/2025 "Post-disaster housing in the context of the circular economy. Reconstruction of rural post-disaster housing from debris recovered from the disaster"

https://upcommons.upc.edu/

Publishing an article about Data Capture

Published in Applied Sciences on 14/2/2025 "Massive Data Capture Approach for Modeling Existing Building Stocks"

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/4/1995

Publishing an article about the lighting performance

Published in Sustainability on 21/11/2024 "Model to Improve Classrooms’ Visual Comfort Using Waste-Based Shading and Its Validation in Mediterranean Schools"

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/23/10176

New façade pieces production

Production of new facade pieces, LabMaq, Escofet and PedresPonent 10-11/2024.

Presentation at ABS Congress

The researcher Saeid Habibi presents Wiser on 29/10/2024 with the speech "Sustainable Architecture: Transforming Waste into Intelligent Facades" in ABS, Bern, at the congress which has attended with Torsten Masseck

https://abs.green/files/ABS_2024.pdf

Grant 2024 - Circular economy in construction

PhD student Rosnery Castillo wins the grant 2024 of circular economy in construction of the spanish association of demolishing, decontamination, cut and recycling (AEDED), given on 25/9/2024, to her research on recycled concrete with NFU within the Wiser project

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/asociacionaeded_foroaeded2024-activity-7245318094426935297-hXuF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Final degree project presentation related to Wiser

The student Àlex Coromina presents his final degree project on 9/9/2024 "Giving a second live to construction waste materials: looking for concrete as a sustainable material to add the mixture and create a useful composition for the building site"

https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/414181

LMSE - Wiser session

Working session by the materials and structural systems laboratory (Laboratorio de Materiales y Sistemas Estructurales) (LMSE), de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Wiser on 2 and 3/9/2024

Façade pieces of concrete with NFU - Demolding

Demolding façade pieces of concrete with NFU at Promsa on 31/7/2024.

Façade pieces of concrete with NFU - Pouring

Pouring façade pieces of concrete with NFU at Promsa on 30/7/2024.

Campaign of concrete with NFU - Pouring

Pouring concrete of specimens to characterize the mechanical, thermal, fire behavior, etc., of concrete with NFU at Promsa on 29/7/2024.

Flexural and compression tests

Flexural and compression tests of 40x40x160 cm triplets made of concrete incorporating different percentages of construction waste (bag fibers, EPS, aggregates, etc.) at Latem on 26/7/2024.

Presentation at Amps Congress

The researcher Torsten Masseck presents Wiser on 16/7/2024 with the speech "Material Circularity: Waste-based Shading Devices for Building Refurbishment"

https://amps-research.com/barcelona-material-circularity/

Demolding Latem pieces

Demolding the concrete pieces containing recycled aggregate and fibers from cars industry, 15/7/2024

Pouring waste-based concrete in Latem

Pouring concrete containing recycled aggregate and fibers from cars industry in 4 pieces and specimens on 11/7/2024

Final degree project presentation related to Wiser

The student Xinmiao Mo presents her final degree project on 5/7/2024 "Analysis and Simulation-Based Design of Indoor Comfort. An Optimization of Waste-Based Shadings for Refurbishment in Spain"

https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/411862

First 3D printing

First 3D printing at CATMech, UPC, Terrassa on 3/7/2024

Demolding

Demolding on 2/7/2024

Pouring concrete in Escofet

Pouring concrete in 12 pieces and specimens on 25/6/2024

Presentation in Hospitalet

Presentation of the WiSeR project to the city of Hospitalet 12/6/2024

Prototyping

Prototyping tests 4-6/2024

Wiser simulation

Results published in the Journal of Building engineering on 26/3/2024

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2024.109024

Molds production

Production od the molds 15/3/2024

Visit to Promsa

Visit to the Promsa factory on 29/2/2024 by several Wiser researchers

TH sensors

Set up of the TH sensors to the Bellvitge school on 27/2/2024

Visit to FlexBrick

Visit to the FlexBrick factory on 12/1/2023 by several Wiser researchers

Weather Station RF

The weather station has been installed at the school in Bellvitge, the Reference Building of the Cluster that is being studied

First prize for a Wiser TFE project

The TFE "Solar control solutions for the rehabilitation of facades in the framework of the circular economy" wins the "First TFM and TFG Prize of the ceramic forum Hispalyt 2022-2023"

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Final degree project presentation related to Wiser

Ángela Gómez Pérez-Guillermo, an architecture degree student, presents her final degree thesis "Solar control solutions for the rehabilitation of facades in the framework of the circular economy"

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Final degree project presentation related to Wiser

Student Gorka Martínez Marín presents her final degree project "Facades from plastic waste. An opportunity for architecture"

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Wiser Research Plan presentation about Panama

Rosney Castillo D-R, a doctoral candidate, presented her thesis entitled "Development of a lattice module for an envelope in a humid tropical climate (Panama), using mortar with recycled tire aggregate (NFU)."

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