Day started in the usual way by having Irish energy intensive breakfast and by walk to DkIT.
First lectures were given by professor Jurgen Neugebauer from FH Joanneum Austria. Title of the presentation was Civil engineering and sustainability. Mr Neugebauer told us first bit about civil engineering in general by showing illustrating pictures of different kind of build infrastructure. Night time photo of Earth taken from space showed nicely how we waste energy by lighting the night sky. Then he concentrated more on buildings and used material and the most energy efficient building shapes.
We continued with the space heating demand calculations taking into account different factors like wall materials and thicknesses etc. Naturally the location of the building (Austria, Ireland, Finland) has big impact on the energy demand and solar gain.
Lunch time. Salad for the Finns please.
Afternoon we had interesting presentations and introduction to school research group CASALA (Centre for affective solutions for ambient living awareness). Several researchers from the CASALA presented what they are doing and trying to study there. They are for example studying how elder people could continue living on their own more longer. For this they have implemented a system involving different kind of sensors telling e.g. when person is in the room and when not. Final goal being that the system could form kind of activity pattern of the inhabitant behavior and detect if there are changes for the worse.
After the presentations we were introduced the 3D CAVE at the site and then we went to see the Great Northern Heaven resident. In later there is real elder people living their lives and the sensor system have been implemented and tested in cooperation with the inhabitants.
After another long day we walked back to the hotel for recovering - everyone with their own style.
Traditional cultural evening at the Oriel Centre Dundalk (old Jail)
Our Irish hosts had kindly arranged us a cultural evening happening with traditional Irish music and dancing. There was a big band of c. 10 musician/dancer telling a story from Irish history. We get to hear many traditional instruments like harp and Irish bagpipe and solo singing telling both funny and sad stories from the Irish history. Irish dance with the rhythmic slapping looks bit funny at first but sounded strong with the hard stepping gave finally kind of impressive image.
The audience enjoyed both the show and the refreshments of the local jail bar. After the show we continued the evening in local pub with our Austrian and Irish friends. Finally the next morning was bit heavy for most.
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