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.
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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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Ventilation
Engineering & Materials Science
Thermal comfort
Engineering & Materials Science
Lighting
Engineering & Materials Science
Concretes
Engineering & Materials Science
Computational fluid dynamics
Engineering & Materials Science
Facades
Engineering & Materials Science
Air
Engineering & Materials Science
Cooling
Engineering & Materials Science
Network
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Profiles
Laura Arango Eusse
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Performance - Postgraduate Design Engineer
Person: TOIO : PDEng-trainee
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)
Projects 2016 2019
- 1 Finished
PVOpmaat: CustomFit: the integration of solar panels
Hensen, J. L. M., Loonen, R. C. G. M. & Bognár, Á.
1/01/16 → 31/07/19
Project: Research direct
Research Output 1975 2020
1
Citation
(Scopus)
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., 1 Jan 2020, In : Intelligent Buildings International. 12, 1, p. 32-43Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Health
Decision making
Innovation
Raise the lantern: how light can help to maintain a healthy and safe hospital environment focusing on nurses
Aarts, M. P. J., 14 Feb 2020, (Accepted/In press) Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. 239 p.Research output: Thesis › Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e)
The influence of background speech on a writing task in an open-plan study environment
Braat-Eggen, E., Reinten, J., Hornikx, M. & Kohlrausch, A., Feb 2020, In : Building and Environment. 169, 10 p., 106586.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
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Acoustic waves
scenario
performance
higher education
Education
Prizes
ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award
Jan Hensen (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
B.J. Max prijs
Jan Hensen (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Activities 1997 2019
Goed Gebruik Hulpmiddelenzorg, Van Theorie naar Praktijk
Helianthe S.M. Kort (Keynote speaker)12 Dec 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote talk › Professional
Onderzoek doen aan de Eindhoven University of Technology
Marcel G.L.C. Loomans (Speaker)14 Nov 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Popular
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Domotica in perspective
Helianthe S.M. Kort (Keynote speaker)5 Nov 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote talk › Professional
Press / Media
Schone buitenlucht en schone binnenlucht, een hele uitdaging
18/11/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
The influence of indoor environmental conditions on knowledge transfer
11/02/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Student theses
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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Assessing the smart readiness of buildings toward carbon neutral society
Author: Rachman, A. P., 26 Jun 2018Supervisor: Hensen, J. (Supervisor 1), Hoes, P. (Supervisor 2) & Mohammadi, Z. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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