Test facilities for evaluation of building component energy performances - TEST CELL in Florence

In view of the current environmental and energy challenges, the society is in urgent need for adequate retrofitting solutions for the existing building stock, and for concepts for nearly zero energy buildings. The existing test facilities and dynamic analysis methods have the possibilities to contribute to these developments. However, since these facilities have different scopes and scales, there is a need for collaboration within a network of excellence, such that the integral multi-physics performance of new solutions may be investigated both at component and at the whole building level.