Publications

2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007

2011

• Forrest Meggers, Hansjurg Leibundgut, The potential of wastewater heat and exergy: Decentralized high-temperature recovery with a heat pump, Energy and Buildings, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 23 December 2010, ISSN 0378-7788, DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.12.008.

2010

Book Chapters

• Meggers, Forrest. "Reduce CO2." Chapter in Re-inventing Construction. Ruby Press, Berlin. 2010.
• Meggers, Forrest and Leibundgut, Hansjürg. "EOL, COP, PVT, TABS, and LowEx." Chapter in Re-inventing Construction. Ruby Press, Berlin. 2010.
  

Conference Papers

• Meggers, Forrest; Ritter, Volker and Leibundgut, HJ. "Low Exergy Building Systems Review." In Conference Proceedings of ECOS 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland. 14-17.June.2010.  Also selected and in submission to a special issue of the journal Energy.
• Meggers, Forrest. "Low Exergy Building Systems Review." Oral Presentation at ECOS 2010. 15.June.2010
• Meggers, Forrest. "Exergy analysis of wastewater heat recovery for optimal LowEx heat pump performance." In Conference Proceedings: 16 Status-Seminar <Forschen und Bauen im Kontext von Energie und Umwelt>. BRENET. Zurich, Switzerland. 2-3.Sept.2010.
• Meggers, Forrest. "Exergy analysis of wastewater heat recovery for optimal LowEx heat pump performance." Oral Presentation. 16 Status Seminar. 3.Sept.2010.
• Meggers, Forrest; Mast, Matthias and Leibundgut, Hansjürg. "The missing link for low exergy buildings: Low temperature-lift ultra-high COP heat pumps." In conference proceedings of Clima 2010, Antalya, Turkey. 9-12.May.2010
• Meggers, Forrest. ""The missing link for low exergy buildings: Low temperature-lift ultra-high COP heat pumps." Oral presentation at Clima 2010. 12.May.2010.
  

Reports

• Meggers, Forrest and Benz-Karlstrom, Petra.  Low Exergy Building Systems Analysis: Integrated wastewater heat recovery and analysis of cooling systems with SEPE: Swiss contribution to IEA ECBCS Annex 49 Low Exergy Systems for High-Performance Buildings and Communities.  Schlussbericht. Bundesamt für Energie, Forschungsprogramm Energie in Gebäuden. Bern, Switzerland. 31.Oct.2010
• Meggers Forrest. "Chapter 3: Tools for Exergy Analsys" and "Section 6.6: Exergy recovery from wastewater in small scale integrated systems. in Annex 49 Low Exergy Systems for High-Performance Buildings and Communities - Guidebook. IEA ECBCS. Frauenhofer IBP, Kassel, Germany. 2010.
  

Presentations

• Meggers, Forrest. "Professionals". Contribution to the final presentation, "Reduce CO2: With technology to zero emissiosn" at the Holcim Forum, Mexico City. March, 2010
• Meggers, Forrest. "Strategic design for LowEx Building." Contribution to the oral presentation at the Annex 49 Conference, The Future for Sustainable Built Environments with High Performance Energy Systems. 21.October.2010.
• Meggers, Forrest. "Introduction, Annex 49, Exergy." Oral Presentation at Low Exergy Building Symposium - From Theory to Practice. Zurich, Switzerland. 26.November.
• Meggers, Forrest. "Annex 49 Exergy Tool" Oral Presentation at Low Exergy Building Symposium - From Theory to Practice. Zurich, Switzerland. 26.November.
• Meggers, Forrest. "Annex 49 Wastewater Heat Recovery." Oral Presentation at Low Exergy Building Symposium - From Theory to Practice. Zurich, Switzerland. 26.November.

2009

Conference Papers

• Meggers, F. Exergy and Building Systems: The Full Potential of Heat Recovery. Proceedings of CISBAT. Lausanne, Switzerland. Sept, 2009.
• Meggers, F. Baldini, L. and Leibundgut, HJ. Active LowEx Geothermal Insulation System. Proceedings of CISBAT 2009. Lausanne, Switzerland. Sept, 2009.
• Meggers, F. New Building Technology Based on Low Exergy Design. Proceedings of International Advanced Technology Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Nov. 2009.

Presentations

• Meggers, F. The Value of Waste: Exergetic Optimization of Heat Recovery from Wastewater. Poster Presenationa at The Future for Sustainable Built Environments: Integrating the LowEx Approach. Heerlen, The Netherlands, April 21st 2009.
• Meggers F. and Schlueter A. Design Performance Viewer (DPV): A BIM Application Including Exergy Analysis. Poster Presenationa at The Future for Sustainable Built Environments: Integrating the LowEx Approach. Heerlen, The Netherlands, April 21st 2009.
• Meggers F. Low Exergy Active Insulation Heat Barrier. Poster Presenationa at The Future for Sustainable Built Environments: Integrating the LowEx Approach. Heerlen, The Netherlands, April 21st 2009.
• Meggers F. Integrated LowEx Building Components. Presentation at the 5th Expert Meeting of the Annex 49. Maastricht, The Netherlands, April 22, 2009.
• Meggers, F. Exergy and Building Systems: The Full Potential of Heat Recovery. Poster Presentation at CISBAT. Lausanne, Switzerland. Sept, 2009.

• Meggers, F. Buildings: The Silver Bullet without a Gun.

    -Presentation at Universidad Andres Bello, Valparaiso, Chile, Sept 7, 2009
    -Presentation at GreenLife Conference Santiago, Chile. Sept 8, 2009
    -Presentation at Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile. Sept 9, 2009

• Meggers, F. New Building Technology Based on Low Exergy Design. Presentation at the International Advanced Technology Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Nov. 4, 2009.

Publications

• Meggers, F., Schlueter, A., Thesseling, F. The Design Performance Viewer. IEA ECBCS Annex49. Newsletter No. 5. Mar. 2009. http://www.annex49.com/materials.html

2008

Conference Papers

• Meggers, Forrest and Baldini, Luca. Unique Integration of Hot Water Heat Recovery into Low Exergy Heating. AIVC 2008 Proceedings. Kyoto, Japan, 2008.
• Meggers, Forrest. Exergy Optimized Wastewater Heat Recovery: Minimizing Losses and Maximizing Performance. ICEBO 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Germany 2008.
• Meggers, F., Baldini, L., and Leibundgut, H. Exergy Recovery from Warm Wastewater for an Integrated Low Exergy Building System. PLEA 2008 Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, 2008.

Presentations

• Meggers Forrest. “Switzerland + LowEx + Annex 49.” IEA ECBCS Annex 49 Third Working Phase Meeting. Vienna, Austria. April 9, 2008.
• Meggers, Forrest. “Exergy Reocvery from Wastewater” IEA ECBCS Annex 49 Third Working Phase Meeting. Vienna, Austria. April 9, 2008.
• Meggers, Forrest. “Wastewater Heat Recovery update.” IEA ECBCS Annex 49 Fourth Working Phase Meeting. Borganes, Iceland. Aug. 28, 2008.

Publication

• Meggers F. Case Studies on Innovative Technologies Building Case 1: Wastewater recovery technology. ECBCS Annex 49 Low Exergy Systems for High-Performance Buildings and Communities Newsletter No. 4. September 2008.

2007

Luca Baldini, Forrest Meggers, Arno Schlüter, and Prof. Dr. Hansjürg Leibundgut. Effective Infrastructure Distribution, Implementing An Integrative Concept for Sustainable Office Spaces. Clima 2007, Helsinki, Finnland