Franca Trubiano is a registered architect, researcher and educator. Her research areas include construction technology, materials, tectonic theories, integrated design, architectural ecologies, and high performance buildings
She is editor and co-au
...MoreFranca Trubiano is a registered architect, researcher and educator. Her research areas include construction technology, materials, tectonic theories, integrated design, architectural ecologies, and high performance buildings.
She is editor and co-author of the recently published Design and Construction of High Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (Routledge Press), which features architectural innovations in building skin technologies, energy-free architectural design principles, advances in building-integrated photovoltaics, essential engineering principles, controls and approaches to simulation for achieving net zero, and the advantages of integrated design in residential construction. It also discusses innovative case studies of homes which have incorporated a series of low-energy design solutions.
Franca is also a Research Associate and inaugural member of the Energy Efficient Buildings HUB, a US Energy Innovation Hub located the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Her funded research is focused on the use of Integrated Design Practices for the Energy Efficient Retrofit of buildings in a mid-Atlantic region.
At the University of Pennsylvania, she teaches high performance building design studios in the graduate and post-professional Masters of Environmental Building Design Program, as well as Construction Technology seminars. She has also introduced Building Information Modeling in the Construction Technology sequence by authoring a two-volume BIM Handbook for use by students.
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