PEOPLE 2015

Environmental engineer, Trento (Italy). "My skills are mainly related to the field of construction industry in the field of site supervisor, job accounting, and safety manager. I have an experience of almost ten years. In addition to my main activity linked to construction sites I have always been interested to the energy linked to construction. I attended courses for CasaClima consultant and became energy certifier of the province of Trento."

Architect, Brasov (Romania). "I am an architect and a green building professional with strong believes that we can create a healthy environment with the power of nature itself and with the power of our senses. I invest in a multidisciplinary future of Romanian education and in a strong synergy between business and universities through the SDB NGO and Solar Decathlon Europe competition. Our imagination is a map for our lives. I mix dreams and reality for more possibilities."

Architect and mechanical engineer, Barcelona (Spain). "I am a mechanical engineer, master in architecture and sustainability and LEED Green Associate. I got my first job in an environmental engineering office. A few years later I decided to join environment and architecture as a way to work and keep studying on it. I am very interested in building sustainable certifications. At this moment I work at the Municipal Housing Board of Barcelona’s as a building engineer."

Architect, Monza (Italy). "Architect and PhD in Architectural Technology with specialization in LCA of the environmental impacts of buildings. I am a researcher, university teacher, trainer for professionals, freelance architect. I am the author of 17 publications and has participated in several international scientific conferences. I am currently research fellow at the ABC Department of the Politecnico di Milan."

Architect, Rimini (Italy). "I graduated in Architecture at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (AAM), Switzerland on May, 2010. During the university I worked one year in an architecture office in Locarno and Bellinzona. After graduation I lived 4 months in London where I studied English and I developed my passion for paintings and drawing that is my second employment (www.pietromarsciani.com). From 2011 I work in an engineering and architecture studio in Riccione."

Landscape engineer, Rimini (Italy). "I graduated in Environmental Engineering in Bologna, in 2008. During the university I developed my study with specialization about hydraulic works, water treatment plants, hydrology analysis and environmental analysis. I am graduated as engineer in 2008. From 2008 I work in an engineering and architecture office in Riccione called Polistudio S.r.l."

Architect, Teramo (Italy). " I am an Architect and PhD candidate focused on the emergent technologies for environmental design. My cultural and scientific training has attempted to address the various issues related to the centrality of the project in relation to the environment context in connection with the rapidly evolving technological innovations in the contemporary era. I am convinced that innovation and research are a necessity considering the worldwide key role architecture plays."

Architect, Bucharest (Romania). "Having an educational background in architecture, with a strong focus on the integration of the architectural heritage in the urban development process, the social aspects involved and the multidisciplinary approach in sustainable development of urban and rural communities, my professional profile is filled with different types of experiments meant to answer as much as possible to the HOWs and WHYs involved in the process of the contemporary architecture."

Civil engineer, Zagreb (Croatia). "I am employed at DARH 2 L.l.c., company for architecture and acoustics, at the position as authorized design engineer, energy performance certified and person for conducting safety at work with over 8 years’ experience. My key qualifications are experience in designing, supervising and energy and energy performance."

Architect, Cuneo (Italy) "Interest in sustainable materials leads me since the days of curricular training looking for studies or/and construction companies that deal with this topic, so I do my undergraduate training at a construction firm that uses a wooden frame building system, an innovative system albeit tied to tradition. This experience leads me to learn about the great benefits of the wooden building."

Architect, Sevilla (Spain). "I am an architect by the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. I specialized in building environmental assessments methods and tools in the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Marseille and the University of Seville. My work brings together research, teaching and professional practice, as PhD student in the University of Seville and as architect collaborator in MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos."

Architect, Vicenza (Italy). "I spent several years in Milan, Stockholm and Vicenza studying, learning and working in the field of architecture. I started my office in my hometown 2 years ago, aware that Italy is a country where in the last 60 years too many buildings have been designed and built with very poor aesthetic and energetic qualities."

Energy engineer, Turin (Italy). "I am an Energy Modeller and Sustainability Consultant for Ai Engineering, working on various projects over the Italian territory and abroad; I am also tutor of the academic course in "Sustainable Architecture" at Polytechnic of Turin. I'm a LEED AP professional with specialty for Existing Building: Operation and Maintenance. I worked on a LEED Platinum Certified building in Switzerland and on the design and construction of a Net+NZEB in Italy."

Urban planner, Agrigento (Italy). "I am a dynamic and curious person, during my studies and my professional experiences I got in contact with some of the most interesting practices related to sustainability and sustainable urban planning with a clear approach to low tech tactics, tools and strategies. I studied and then apply in my design: agriculture of proximity, crafts, reuse and urban activism and I supported active citizenship in the self-building of their own spaces."

Civil engineer, Riga (Latvia). "I am a green building enthusiast with a broad scale experience in sustainability field – starting from design features mainly on efficient CHP and micro CHP design and going further to global cooperation on sustainability agenda and research. I am currently developing my Ph.D thesis on criteria for resilient building features in Latvia in close cooperation with Latvian Sustainable Building council."