Dr. Michele Sauchelli

Experience

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  Freelance Engineering Consultant

  May 2010 - Sept 2018

  Sustainability and Façade Engineer/Project Manager

  Main Responsibilities:*Construction drawings and façade details consultant;*Façade/Cladding sketches, drawings, specifications, site inspections;*Assistant Construction Manager of small/medium residential buildings for building envelope technologies, thermal bridge solutions;*Building Energy Performance Certificates;*Building Energy Audit/Energy Analyst/Dynamic energy and daylighting simulations; Show less

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  IlSole24Ore, Arketipo

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Freelance

  Editor of the monthly section called "Material-Mente" about research and innovation in building construction

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  Politecnico di Milano

  Jan 2011 - Sept 2014

  _Teaching Assistant at the course Sustainable Construction Technologies 9 ECTS Credits, MSc in Architectural Engineering (English Course).Main competencies:*construction details, façade technologies, energetic and lighting analysis.*Visiting lecturer in building envelope and cladding technologies_Visiting Lecturer at *Technological Design Course, MSc in Architectural Engineering;*Sustainable Low Energy Houses: Basics of Design, ATHENS International Students Exchange Programme;*High energy efficiency building systems, MSc in Building Engineering & Architecture; Show less In my doctorate studies I have been involved and coordinated some international research activities, among them:_"VELUXlab": the first italian Nearly Zero Energy Building in a university campus. *Coordinator of the scientific teams;*Responsible for the building envelope technologies and energy analyses;*Project and construction manager assistant (on site in charge of the building envelope technologies)*Now working as the operations coordinator and supervisor of the ongoing researches *Invited speaker at technical conferences and visiting lecturer at university Msc courses on architectural technology, sustainable and low energy building design;_"ISIS Facchinetti, Zero Energy Restoration": research activity regarding the energy retrofitting of an existing high school (designed by Arch. Castiglioni) protected by conservation restrictions.*Preliminary study of possibile façade technologies and building envelope solutions;*Energy analyst for low energy solutions;*Building’s dynamic energy simulations;*Deliver technical reports of the building envelope and of the energy simulations;_"EdZen": research activity regarding the realization of the first Zero Energy University Campus in Italy.Preliminary studies; Show less

  • Teaching Assistant & Visiting Lecturer

    Mar 2011 - Sept 2014

  • Research Assistant

    Jan 2011 - Sept 2014
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  Arup

  Jun 2012 - Jan 2013

  Sustainability and Mechanical Engineer (Sponsored PhD Student)

  *Energy analyst and mechanical engineer in an international research project (3EnCult, http://www.3encult.eu) about sustainable and low energy retrofit for historic buildings*Deliver technical reports of building services and dynamic energy simulations*Sustainable and zero energy analyses for international architectural competitions*Teamwork and coordination for the successful delivery of projects technical report

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  University of Sydney

  Feb 2013 - Dec 2013

  Visiting Academic/Teaching Assistant

  *Leading and coordinating an international research project on innovative façade technologies (with patent development);*Parametric design/solar optimization of smart façades (Grasshopper/Rhino 3d);*Combined energetic and daylighting analyses;*Visiting Lecturer in innovative façade technologies;*Teaching assistant in Architectural Technology, Emerging building Technologies, Innovative and Lightweight Building Structures;

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  Laing O'Rourke

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2018

  Innovation Project Manager - facades and technology
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  WSP in the UK

  Sept 2018 - now

  • Technical Director

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Associate Director - Facade Engineering

    Sept 2018 - Jan 2022