Aleš KRAINER

Dr. Krainer was from 1998 to 2013 head of the Chair for buildings and constructional complexes (KSKE) and from 1992 director of the KSKE research group. His treatment of dynamic thermal response of buildings is connected to the issues of daylight and system management with the use of fuzzy logic, and recently also influences on the health and energy efficiency of built living and working environment performance. He has been a member of several national and international expert and scientific associations and a member of more than 20 committees at international scientific congresses. He has also led a few dozen of development and research projects in Slovenia and 17 international development and research projects, including 10 Framework Programme and 2 COST projects. He was the initiator and head of the preparation of two new Bologna study programs, BA and MA Buildings. He organized and chaired the Second International ISES Europe Solar Congress, Portorož, 1998, with more than 300 participants from 56 states. His complementary activities are painting and design.

Slovene Ethnographic Museum, energy renovation (A. Krainer, UL FGG). The results of the previous testing are: the reduction of the investment budget in the field of HVAC from € 530.319 to € 434.075; with the removal of previously designed air condition system, 158 m2 were freed for the museum’s critical deposit area; gross energy demand for heating is diminished for 67%, from 156 kWh/ m2.a to 50.4 kWh/m2.a; very low specific energy consumption was achieved for cooling i.e. 11.2 kWh/m2.a.

1942 born in Ljubljana, Slovenia

1968 Graduates at Prof. E. Mihevc on office buildings, University of Ljubljana

1990 Doctorate on the energy balance of building, UL

1969–1970 rehabilitation of damaged buildings in the earthquake 1969, Vojnogradževinska komanda Banjaluka

1993, 1995 Visiting professor Architectural Association Graduate School, UK,

1999 Kobe Design University, JP

1998–2013 Head of Chair for Buildings and Constructional Complexes, UL

2006 Scientific councillor, UL

2007 Full professor, University of Ljubljana

Important Works

A. Krainer (1993) Toward smart buildings, In Building science and environment- conscious design, Module 1: Design principles. London: EC, 1993.

I. Škrjanc, B. Zupančič, B. Furlan, A. Krainer (2001) Theoretical and experimental FUZZY modelling of building thermal dynamic response. Building and environment 36(9).

A. Krainer, R. Perdan, G. Krainer (2007) Retrofitting of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. Bauphysik 29(5).

Selected Awards

1970 Medal for military merits, for cooperation in the design and rehabilitation of buildings damaged in the 1969 Banja Luka earthquake

1980 FAGG Distinction on its 60th anniversary

2009 Golden plaque at the 90th anniversary of UL FGG