La transferencia de tecnología sostenible es compleja para las firmas de construcción. Una posible solución es analizar esa clase de transferencia como una red social ya que, si se identifican las diferentes relaciones entre los actores del sector construcción, es posible evaluar la capacidad de adaptación tecnológica de dichos actores. El objetivo fue evaluar la transferencia de tecnología sostenible entre empresas constructoras internacionales que se dedican a construir vivienda social o accesible. Para esto, se identificaron dos países con capacidad de transferencia de tecnología sostenible (Reino Unido y Estados Unidos) y dos países de menor capacidad tecnológica y con potencial de adaptarse a dichas tecnologías (Brasil y Colombia); posteriormente, se seleccionaron cinco firmas constructoras por cada país, con las cuales se hizo un análisis de redes (brasilbragrado, intensidad, cercanía y densidad), y luego, procesos de simulación. Como resultado se identificó la capacidad de transferencia tecnológica que tienen las empresas latinoamericanas para aceptar y adaptar tecnologías de empresas de países industrializados, y se espera poder desarrollar indicadores de medición de transferencia tecnológica que permitan comprender mejor la complejidad de la vivienda social.

High return temperatures are a frequent issue leading to inefficiencies in district heating networks. The causes for high return temperatures usually lie on the secondary side, within the building heating system. However, the district heating operator will in most cases only have access to primary side data through the heat meter. This makes it difficult for the operator to identify and remedy these causes. This contribution uses coupled building and system simulations to investigate issues leading to high return temperatures. The resulting synthetic data replace inaccessible secondary side data for the training of supervised classification algorithms allowing these issues to be diagnosed based on temperature and flow measurements in district heating substations. These classification algorithms are tested with three cases differing in the assumed availability of secondary side data. Fault detection and diagnosis can be performed with primary data only, with a modest degree of accuracy. Temperature measurements on the secondary side of the substation are shown to considerably improve the quality of predictions, from 78% to 96% classification accuracy.

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slPCMlib predicts the effective thermal properties of solid/liquid phase change materials (PCM) showing a non-isothermal phase transition behavior. The effective properties are valid over the PCM functional temperature range where latent heat is absorbed and released. Different phenomenological phase transition models are implemented to account for temperature shifts in latent transition changes, e.g. due to multi-step transitions and thermal hysteresis. The library currently contains generic PCM and specific commercial paraffin-based and hydrated salt-based PCM (media). Its purpose is the analysis of partial and complete melting and solidification processes relevant for engineering applications, such as the design of PCM-enhanced building components.

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