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BRITA in PuBs e-learning system

An intelligent computer learning system is developed and installed at the VGTU and will assist the user/reader in selecting the most relevant text from the electric textbook to study for a specific subject. The part of the module based on an automated analysis of key words included in the different chapters of the BRITA in PuBs reports.
The texts in the electronic textbook will consist of pdf-files of the design guidelines and demonstration project reports. For each text a set of related questions and answers is developed for the intelligent testing system. the questions and answers have been developed by the guideline and demonstration project authors.

The E-Learning module includes:
- intelligent computer learning system
- an electronic textbook with results from BRITA in PuBs
- intelligent testing systems

Optionally are three more elements:
- videos
- audios
- discussion forum

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Latest news

A European Lighthouse Project with ongoing Public Interest

The final remarks of the project coordinators summarise the various project results including the achieved energy savings at the retrofitted demonstration buildings and the tools and training material developed and the reports and guidelines written during the project phase. A high public interest could be gained on the website and due to articles in journals, tv footages and presentations at conferences.

BRITA in PuBs broadcasted on several TV stations

During the project phase of BRITA in Pubs 4 videos have been made mostly on the demonstration buildings. Besides the wind turbines on the roof of the City College in Plymouth, the Norwegian case studies Borgen Community Centre and the Church in Hol have been the focus of tv documentations on energy efficient retrofits.

Keynote lecture on BRITA in PuBs results at the first ECO-Build Cluster workshop

The 28th of May 2008 the new formed ECO-BUILD Project Cluster from 3 supporting projects organized a workshop in Brussels entitled "Innovative concepts and technologies in the building sector".

Hol church in focus: The successfully retrofitted listed building from 1920 video shot for television broadcasting!

The first one year monitoring result for Hol Church is now available. The result has been anticipated with great interest since a listed building is involved. The challenge has been: What can you do when antiquarian authorities refuses to grant permission to do anything at all?

The BRITA project results presented as Architectural Courses

Courses to train students of architecture in the fields covered by BRITA and the other Eco buildings projects SARA, Eco-culture and Demohouse are designed by the following BRITA partners: Hans Erhorn, Simone Ferrari, Karin Buvik, Euphrosyne Triantis and the Work Package leader Harald N. Røstvik.