Publication detail

Conversion of an old brewery into a 21st century culture and social centre

CHARVÁT, P. JÍCHA, M.

Original Title

Conversion of an old brewery into a 21st century culture and social centre

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The decision makers in urban planning face very often a dilemma whether to demolish or retrofit old buildings. Such a dilemma had to be solved during the reconstruction of the campus of the Faculty of Information Technologies at the Brno University of Technology. One of the buildings on the campus (a building that used to be a brewery) was in a really bad shape and the question was whether to demolish it and build a new building instead or to put effort and resources into its retrofit. At that time the Brno University of Technology became a participant in the EU 6th framework project BRITA in PuBs (Bringing Retrofit Innovation to Application in Public Buildings). The decision was made to retrofit the former brewery into a social and culture within the framework of the demonstration part of the BRITA project. The retrofit of the brewery involved a complete change of the building use profile and all the building systems had to be designed from scratch. Sophisticated control and monitoring of the building equipment by means of the Building Management System is used in the Brewery.

Keywords

energy retrofitting, building ventilation, environmental technology

Authors

CHARVÁT, P.; JÍCHA, M.

RIV year

2008

Released

14. 10. 2008

Publisher

AIVC

Location

Kyoto, Japan

ISBN

2-930471-27-1

Book

The 29th AIVC Conference in 2008

Edition

AIVC

Edition number

1

Pages from

67

Pages to

72

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT27443,
  author="Pavel {Charvát} and Miroslav {Jícha}",
  title="Conversion of an old brewery into a 21st century culture and social centre",
  booktitle="The 29th AIVC Conference in 2008",
  year="2008",
  series="AIVC",
  number="1",
  pages="67--72",
  publisher="AIVC",
  address="Kyoto, Japan",
  isbn="2-930471-27-1"
}