Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación (IVE) (engl.: Valencia Institute of building) is a private non-profit making foundation with public interest set up in October 1986, whose headquarter is in Valencia. IVE is a research institute that seeks to improve the quality and sustainability in the construction process through the R&D in the building field. IVE board includes professionals, developers, building contractors, end-users, in order to provide a platform for ideas exchange, developments and knowledge in the different fields of construction. During 30 years of its existence the institute has remained very active in the drafting of technical documents to support the pre-normative research of building process and to spread of all the aspects related to the quality and sustainability in the design, construction and use of buildings.
Financial manager, EU project manager and Head of the International R&D&i Department at Valencia Institute of Building (IVE).
Miriam joined the Department of Construction Management in 2006 and worked in the development of different tools for professionals regarding the application of sustainable products and technologies to the built environment (new and existing buildings as well as urban areas).
In 2013, she joined the International R&D&i Department and has managed different EU projects from different programmes focused on energy efficiency and sustainability in the built environment. She is redactor of different publications about buildings and their environment.
Currently, she is the financial manager of the institute and Head of the International R&D&i Department. Degree in Industrial Design and Bachelor in Industrial Engineering - Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Bachelor in Economics (Spanish National Distance University (UNED).
Dr. Leticia Ortega is architect from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, currently training & Employment Manager at Valencia Institute of Buillding (IVE).
She has extensive experience in the fields of civil society development and institutional strengthening, environmental research and policy.
Her research is focused in Sustainability planning, energy conservation, changing user behaviour to conserve resources, community-based research, environmental education and community based social marketing, environmental assessment.
She has led and collaborated in several EU projects (Med Programme, Intelligent Energy, H2020 and Climate KIC).
She is assessor of Certified Professional in Accelerating Transition - Climate-KIC initiative.
She has been lecturer at Polytechnic University of Valencia in several courses and masters.
She has national technical publications in the field of the built environment. She has authored peer-reviewed articles in sustainability building field.
Senior researcher at the International R&D&i Department - Valencia Institute of Building (IVE).
Ana has experience in both public and private organisations, on design and supervision of architectural projects; and Geospatial Science research oriented to smart cities and communities, and quality and sustainability research oriented to construction processes and buildings.
She has collaborated with JRC Institute for Energy (Ispra - Italy) with the implementation of energy efficiency (GreenBuilding Programme) and urban sustainability projects (Covenant of Mayors Programme).
Architect (Polytechnic University of Valencian, Spain), MsC. on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (Jaume I University, Castellon – Spain), and MsC. on Geospatial Technologies (Jaume I University, Castellon – Spain; University of Münster, Germany; NOVA University, Lisbon – Portugal).