Projects per year
Organization profile
Introduction / mission
Building Performance aims to optimize energy use and indoor environment during design and operation of new and existing buildings, to arrive at sustainable, healthy, productive and/or comfortable buildings.
Highlighted phrase
Increasing sustainability by optimizing energy use and indoor environmental quality
Organisational profile
Building Performance (BP) is a research group of the Building Physics and Services (BPS) unit at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The group’s aim is to contribute to achieving a sustainable, energy-positive built environment with indoor environmental quality optimized for health, comfort and/or productivity.
This requires a multi-scale / multi-physics and trans-disciplinary approach that addresses technological solutions for energy generation, storage, distribution and demand reduction, and integrates and optimizes these in design, construction and operation of new and existing buildings. A performance-based perspective is at the center of these activities, providing opportunities for informed decision-making in the development of designs, products and services that foster the sustainability transition.
Research and teaching is focused on:
- Computational building performance simulation as an enabling technology in this context
- Optimization of indoor environmental quality for health, comfort and/or productivity.
Although the building industry is one of the most important industrial and economic sectors, influencing the quality of life and the environment, planners and property developers pay relatively little attention during the design phase to the life-cycle cost of owning and operating buildings.
For building design, construction, operation, maintenance and management activities, there is an urgent need for the integration of ‘generally applicable’ and ‘generally accepted’ methods and tools, for various applications, each having various levels of complexity and/or various types of end-users.
Increasingly, computer-based models (programs) are employed to aid in the design, operation, or management decision-making process. Development, evaluation, ways of dealing with uncertainties and practical use of the models and programs is therefore increasingly important. Building performance is closely involved in the TU/e Strategic Area Energy and in the TU/e Smart Cities Center program.
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Profiles
Ádám Bognár
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Performance - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
P.E. (Ella) Braat-Eggen
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Acoustics - Doctoral Candidate
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Performance - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
Henk Brink
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Performance - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
Projects
- 1 Finished
PVOpmaat: CustomFit: the integration of solar panels
Hensen, J. L. M., Loonen, R. C. G. M., Bognár, Á. & Nelissen, E.
1/01/16 → 31/07/19
Project: Research direct
Research Output
A practical approach to representation of real-time building control applications in simulation
Yahiaoui, A., 1 Jun 2020, In : International Journal of Automation and Computing. 17, 3, p. 464-478 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
A stepwise approach for assessing the appropriate occupant behaviour modelling in building performance simulation
Gaetani, I. I., Hoes, P-J. & Hensen, J. L. M., 3 May 2020, In : Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 13, 3, p. 362-377 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
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A structural approach for the redesign of a small-scale care facility as a guideline for decision-makers
Huisman, E., Appel-Meulenbroek, R. & Kort, H., 2 Jan 2020, In : Intelligent Buildings International. 12, 1, p. 32-43Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Prizes
ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award
Jan Hensen (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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B.J. Max prijs
Jan Hensen (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Activities
Signify: circular Building Economy; work in progress
Elphi Nelissen (Speaker)5 Feb 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote talk › Professional
we moeten circulairder en wel nu
Elphi Nelissen (Speaker)4 Feb 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote talk › Professional
Circulair ontwerpen in de bouw
Elphi Nelissen (Speaker)3 Feb 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
Press / Media
Smart Glazing in Intelligent Buildings: What Can We Simulate?
26/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
The meridian: podcast: Groeten uit e-topia
7/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
-Eindhoven University of Technology: Medication errors prevented with optimized lighting
14/02/20
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
Achieving thermal comfort in naturally ventilated offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Author: van de Voort, T., 25 Feb 2020Supervisor: Hoes, P. (Supervisor 1), Leite, B. (External person) (External coach) & Hensen, J. L. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Active insulation: computational assessment of the performance of a forced convective dynamic insulation system
Author: Koenders, S., 27 Mar 2018Supervisor: Hensen, J. L. (Supervisor 1), Loonen, R. (Supervisor 2) & de Klijn, M. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Analyzing the performance gap by identifying its causal factors and quantifying their individual impacts for energy performance contracts
Author: van Heijst, A., 30 Apr 2017Supervisor: Hensen, J. (Supervisor 1), Hoes, P. (Supervisor 2), Loomans, M. (Supervisor 2) & Hoogervorst, C. (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
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