Dr. Juan Camilo Mahecha Zambrano

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Associate Researcher, Building Energy Systems and Technologies - Centre of Building Technologies and Processes

www.zhaw.ch/de/archbau/institute/zbp/

Expertise and research interests

Occupant-centric building design and operation
Building energy and comfort performance assessment
Building energy systems / building technologies
Renewable energies
Thermal energy storage
Simulation

Educational background

PhD in Architecture, Built Environment & Construction Engineering - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Master of Environmental Engineering - The University of Melbourne, Australia
MSc Mechanical Engineering - Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
BSc Mechanical Engineering - Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Projects

• MetaSim – From high-fidelity to data-driven building energy performance simulation / Team member / Project ongoing
• “Humans-in-the-loop” – An occupant-centric digital framework for sustainable building operation / Project leader / Project ongoing
• MoCool - Occupant-centric, mobile, radiant panel cooling for increasing summer comfort in offices / Team member / Project ongoing
• TCology - Thermo-Chemical Network Ecology / Team member / Project ongoing
• SWEET DeCarbCH – Decarbonisation of Cooling and Heating in Switzerland / Team member / Project ongoing

Publications

• Mahecha Zambrano, Juan; Gaetani, Isabella; Oberegger, Ulrich Filippi; Salvalai, Graziano,

  2023.

  Advancing and demonstrating the Impact Indices method to screen the sensitivity of building energy use to occupant behaviour.

  Building Simulation.

  16(7), pp. 1257-1272.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-023-1004-6

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

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