Italian Green Building Engineer Andrea Costa

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Andrea Costa is a qualified chartered engineer and building energy rating (BER) assessor in Italy and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) affiliated to the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). 
He is expert in building simulation with experience on an array of building energy simulation software and ISO 50001 certification tools. Andrea is originally a graduate from the Politecnico di Milano where he obtained a BSc(Eng) in Building Engineering in 2005.
In 2007 he was also awarded a summa cum laude Masters of Science degree in Building Engineering. During the master degree programme, he was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship and studied at University College Cork in the academic year 2005/2006.
He pursued and was awarded a PhD in Civil Engineering from the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) with a PhD topic of providing support to the energy manager in improving the building operation strategy with considerations on building energy use and occupant comfort throughout the building lifecycle.
After his PhD, Andrea was awarded an industrially supported Postdoctoral Fellow co-funded by IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology) as part of the Enterprise Ireland Partnership Scheme and D’Appolonia Spa in Italy.
Andrea brings with him a balance of field and research experience including FP7 projects for energy efficiency with targeted focus for office buildings, airports, sport facilities, and schools.

Show Highlight

  • Play sustainability Legos to inspire your direction.
  • Aims and innovative solutions and technologies to speed up change to the construction industry and the real estate industry.
  • Research funded projects to support green building consulting and projects.
  • R2M focus and industry impact

    a. Making buildings more digitally sustainable and eco digital.
    b. Understanding new European directive for building energy efficiency
    c. Educating stakeholders to manage their own assets.
    d. A framework for digital initial log books directly working with requirements and guidelines for green building.
    e. Unique approach to digitizing and keeping digital data available for buildings during daylight time.

  • Providing internal occupants with the digital solutions that maintain better conditions.
  • Understanding the difference between the European Green Deal and EU taxonomy mandates and priorities.
  • The secret to growing a sizable business for budding entrepreneurs.
  • Transform buildings into digital assets.

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