The PV architecture is a new concept for Romania. Consequently, the project aims to achieve demonstrative designs of ecological solar buildings containing in their structure photovoltaic elements, passive solar elements, and modern systems for day lighting. These will be available on-line on the web-site of the project and, additionally, will be presented to building contractors and to the public. In this section of the project we have in view the practical construction of three BIPV (building integrated PV) systems to be integrated in the structure of buildings. The three systems will be equipped with monitoring systems and the necessary infrastructure for transmitting the data to the web-site. A computer-based displaying system

placed in public domain will permit real-time visualisation of the parameters of the installation and, additionally, will transmit technical and economical information referring to the solar/photovoltaic architecture to the large public.

A holistic analysis of the building has to be done before to introduce a BIPV system. The main criteria of such analysis would be as follows:

• opportunity of the BIPV utilisation;

• involvements of the built environment (urban, rural, industrial) towards the building;

• involvements of the BIPV placement towards the building itself (these criteria are linked with volumetric analysis, style, general and particular look of the building envelope);

• specific requirements of the building envelope based on the type of selected BIPV;

• optimum action type and place (analysis of the BIPV systems corresponding with the envelope parts where it would be intended to act);

• technical and operational involvements on the envelope components;

• efficiency of the agreed system;

• financial and payback period involvements of the investment;

• type and way of the produced electrical energy management.

The main activities developed by the project partners are as follows:

Project coordinator (IPA SA):

• elaboration of technical solutions for PV systems integrated into facade and roof elements, including sizing and preparation of the technical documentation for the design of the PV systems to be used in the three demo projects;

• elaboration of the technical information and data support for the development of a data acquisition and processing software;

• software development for sizing building-integrated PV systems;

• design of the PV systems for all real and demo applications within the project.

West University of Timisoara (WUT):

• development of a software for solar radiation estimation (based on the models which can be deduced taking into account the new database);

• achievement of a PV system located at the WUT.

• development in Timisoara of the centre for measuring solar radiation on tilted surfaces.

Polytechnic University of Bucharest (PUB):

• development of a BIPV Laboratory at Physics Department (together with IPA);

• elaboration of IT solutions for the development of a specific website for the performance of all project activities (database administration, online courses, partner’s communication, setting up of a solar architecture library, etc.). The website will be structured on two levels: public and private;

• elaboration of market surveys and of a strategy for the implementation of BIPV systems on the Romanian market;

• drawing up of a guide on building-integrated PV systems;

Polytechnic University of Timisoara (PUT):

• research related to the achievement of the measuring and data centralising instrumentation (electronic data acquisition and processing equipment);

• development of a FIELDBUS type measuring network, of programs associated to interfacing and real-time building of a database with online access;

• studies on the optimal use of solar radiation spectrum areas.

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Partner University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest “Ion Mincu” (UAUIM):

• analysis of types of civil buildings in the existing stock and evaluation of possibilities of intervention upon these ones by introducing PV panels;

• proposals of interventions in existing civil buildings by integrating the panels within the building envelope;

• experiments related to possibilities of intervention on the covering — terrace of a building of the "Ion Mincu" University and on the framework of the same building (the old building of the School of Architecture), and monitoring of subsequent behaviour;

• participation at the elaboration of market surveys and of a strategy for the implementation of building — integrated PV systems on the Romanian market.