Seminar-Technological advancements towards sustainability: inflatable systems for renewable energy harvesting and high-speed transport
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ABOUT THE TALK
How To Build Eolic Towers With 3d Print Technic Or New Inflatable System: Maximizing the use of wind towers means building towers over 100 m high. The use of metal is complex at this point, expensive and unsustainable. The concrete tower option is also expensive and not very sustainable. The increasing use of 3DCP printing technology makes construction much faster and more effcient, reducing the carbon footprint during the transportation and construction of these towers. On the other hand, a unique technology in the world has been developed where the use of infatable structures allows the construction process of towers on land and offshore to be accelerated. The processes are much more sustainable, reducing the use of concrete, reducing transportation and improving accessibility to wind farms.
Hyperloop ZELEROS – UPV: Designing a novel hyperloop solution which will become the backbone of our economy. Scalable and cost-effcient infrastructure, based on key principles of transport economics to unleash system feasibility at a global level. Use a new type of infrastructure infatable & hybrid, easy to produce, transport, assemble and high durability decreasing the carbon footprint. New projects to use the magnetic levitation for zero emissions containers transportation in the Smarts Harbor or Smart cities.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Background University Degrees: Technical Architect (UPV 1994), Materials Engineer (UPV 2005), Specialist in Construction Engineering (UPV 2006), Degree Building Engineer (UCLA 2010), Master in Concrete Engineering (UPV 2013), and PhD in Construction & Civil Engineering (UPV 2015).
International Lecturer: Lecturer invited in different organizations, administration, companies, professional associations, public institutions and other international universities: Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Politechnika Slaska (Poland), Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul), Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Italy), TU Gdanks (Poland), Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Ukraine), Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), Jade Hochschule University of Applied Sciences (Oldenburg, Germany), Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana (Cuba), Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas (Vilnius, Lithuania), School of Urban Design Wuhan University (China), TU DELFT (The Netherlands), TEC Monterrey (México), Shenzhen General Institute of Architectural Design and Research Co, Ltd (China), Beijing Yong Shan Media Co., Ltd, Pekin, Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Dubai, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, VIA University Horsens Denmark.
Research Lines: The main topics research are in the field of sustainability, advanced materials (plastic, cardboard, industry waste, glass…), concrete technology, advanced hybrid structures, 3D print structures (plastic & concrete).

José R. ALBIOL-IBÁÑEZ, PhD
Vice Dean International Relations, Employment, Business Cathedra & Entrepreneurship
Honorary Professor Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering & Architecture.
Member Research Center of Building Construction – CITE
Former Director EXCO 2017-2022
Curator “International Itinerant Exhibition in Building Research” 2017-2022
Building Engineer, Materials Engineer, Master Concrete Engineering, PhD Civil Engineer
ETS Building Engineers UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA - SPAIN