Projects per year
Organisation profile
Introduction / mission
Preservation of energy and limitation of the environmental impact while providing a healthy and comfortable indoor and outdoor environment are essential requirements for the built environment.
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Enabling meaningful sustainability innovation through building physics and services research
Organisation profile
The Building Physics & Services (BPS) unit at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) looks beyond energy-neutral and climate-neutral buildings. The aim is to generate new knowledge and to integrate and develop design methods that lead to a sustainable, healthy, comfortable and productive indoor and outdoor environment. The goals is to support truly sustainable habitats with energy generation near the end user, combined with energy storage and smart control technologies and designing and operating buildings and built environments that are sustainable, healthy and comfortable.
This can only be achieved by a holistic approach to tackling the complexity of the problems at hand. The common long-term vision within the BPS research program is articulated as follows: “World-class excellent research in the different disciplines in Building Physics & Services to strongly contribute to a healthy, comfortable and sustainable indoor and outdoor built environment, taking into account economical, ecological and energetic constraints”.
BPS works across six interdepartmental research areas: Building Acoustics, Building Lighting, Building Materials, Building Performance, Building Physics (including Urban Physics and Building Physics of Monuments) and Building Services (including Integral Design)
Research is focused on:
- Building physics: experimental, theoretical and numerical modeling of physical aspects in the indoor and outdoor environment and the building envelope (heat, air and moisture transfer, wind, light and acoustics, building behavior simulation, systems, components and materials)
- The design process related to sustainable buildings.
The mission of the research program is to contribute to research in the built environment in the field of Building Physics & Building Services in several areas:
- scientific: fundamental and applied research; design and testing of solutions in prototypes, models, simulation and systems in practice
- societal: focus on sustainability and comfort in a broad sense
- knowledge dissemination to building designers and practitioners
- information and communication technology: development of modern design tools
- synergy and interaction between education, research and practice.
Research yields scientific results that contribute to the understanding and knowledge of physical behavior of buildings and environments and of Integral Building Design (processes). The BPS research is concerned with the development of tools for the analysis, design and conservation of a high-quality indoor and outdoor environment, in which energy efficiency, health, comfort and sustainability are key research topics. The program also provides knowledge to the building industry and engineering consultancy firms.
Research is organized as a network of collaborators within a common BPS research program with a single strategic mission. Synergy between research groups is essential to cover the interdisciplinary challenges that arise from the complexity of the built environment. In recent years, BPS has increasingly taken a leading role in energy, health and sustainability related programs, assuming roles in the Eindhoven Energy Institute, the 4TU (4l Universities of Technology) Focus point ‘Bouw’ (Built Environment) and the International Urban Physics Research Schools.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Mariëlle P.J. Aarts
- Built Environment, Building Lighting - Assistant Professor
- Intelligent Lighting Institute - Assistant Professor
Person: UD : Assistant Professor
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Sustainable summer comfort
Hensen Centnerová, L. (Project Manager), Loonen, R. C. G. M. (Project communication officer), Costa Fajardo Werneck Loche, I. (Project communication officer), Vacancy ENGD (Project member) & Costa Fajardo Werneck Loche, I. (Project member)
1/03/24 → 28/02/27
Project: Third tier
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SSG STIMULUS BE 2023 V DUIJNHOVEN
van Duijnhoven, J. (Project Manager), de Vries, S. W. (Project member), Mardaljevic, J. (Project communication officer) & Kort, H. S. M. (Project communication officer)
11/12/23 → 10/12/29
Project: First tier
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PACER NWA.1432.20.003 Collaborative, Digitized and Integral Processes to Achieve Circular and Emission-Free Renovation
Mc Cann, S. (Project member), Lubbers, E. (Project member), Bekkering, J. D. (Project member), Schröder, T. W. A. (Project Manager), Havinga, L. C. (Project member) & Vacancy ENGD (Project member)
1/08/23 → 31/07/28
Project: Second tier
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A deep convolutional generative adversarial network (DCGAN) for the fast estimation of pollutant dispersion fields in indoor environments
Alanis Ruiz, C. (Corresponding author), Loomans, M. G. L. C. & van Hooff, T., 15 May 2025, In: Building and Environment. 276, 23 p., 112856.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A Design Tool for Virtual Test Environment of Buildings and Local Energy Communities
Phan, T., 19 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press) Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology.Research output: Thesis › EngD Thesis
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Air speed needs and local sensitivity of non-frail and pre-frail older adults: A lab study in China
Zhou, H., Yu, W. (Corresponding author), Kort, H. S. M., Loomans, M. G. L. C., Wei, S., Zhou, S., Guo, M., Zheng, H., Chen, M., Tran, T. H., Zhang, Y., Wang, C. & Zhang, P., 15 Jul 2025, In: Building and Environment. 280, 24 p., 113118.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Equipment
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Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel
Gillmeier, S. (Manager) & Maas, G.-J. (Education/research technician)
Built EnvironmentFacility/equipment: Research lab
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Datasets
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Let's talk scalability: The current status of multi-domain thermal comfort models as support tools for the design of office buildings (Dataset v1.2.1)
Mamulova, E. (Creator), Loomans, M. G. L. C. (Contributor), Loonen, R. C. G. M. (Contributor), Schweiker, M. (Contributor) & Kort, H. S. M. (Contributor), Zenodo, 12 May 2023
Dataset
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RADYNVR-genmanysuns: V1.0
de Vries, S. (Creator), Zenodo, 30 May 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11394339, https://zenodo.org/records/11394339
Dataset
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ERIES-The aerodynamics of platooning and overtaking vehicles (load cell data)
Marshall, S. D. (Creator), Soper, D. (Creator), Gillmeier, S. (Creator), Snape, K. (Creator) & Sterling, M. (Creator), 4TU.Centre for Research Data, 7 May 2024
DOI: 10.4121/c5205f93-5de8-4854-9f9c-46d43c3d8f9e, https://data.4tu.nl/datasets/c5205f93-5de8-4854-9f9c-46d43c3d8f9e and one more link, https://data.4tu.nl/datasets/c5205f93-5de8-4854-9f9c-46d43c3d8f9e/1 (show fewer)
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Prizes
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2nd price Postdoc Association TU/e (PDA) Best Paper Awards
van Duijnhoven, J. (Recipient), 10 Jun 2021
Prize: TU/e › Other › Scientific
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Additive manufacturing of functional construction materials on-demand
Lucas, S. S. (Recipient), Yu, Q. L. (Recipient) & Brouwers, H. J. H. (Recipient), 18 Nov 2019
Prize: NWO › Other › Scientific
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Additive manufacturing of sustainable concrete for zero-energy buildings
Lucas, S. S. (Recipient), Yu, Q. L. (Recipient) & Brouwers, H. J. H. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: NWO › Other › Scientific
Activities
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Building Simulation Conference 2025 (Event)
Zheng, H. (Peer reviewer)
2 Jun 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
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Energy Nexus (Journal)
Loonen, R. C. G. M. (Peer reviewer)
2 Jun 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
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Energy and Buildings (Journal)
Loonen, R. C. G. M. (Peer reviewer)
20 May 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
Press/Media
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Waar komt stof vandaan? En hoe kom je van stof af?
21/08/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Eindhoven University of Technology: 'Conveying That Spark to Students, That's What It's All About'
van Donselaar, K. H. & Gauvin, F.
6/10/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
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2-channel mono playback in cinema and room in room acoustics: the effect of direct field interference on playback quality of diffuse-field recordings
Wittebol, W. (Author), Hak, C. C. J. M. (Supervisor 1), Hornikx, M. C. J. (Supervisor 2) & Wenmaekers, R. H. C. (Supervisor 2), 31 Aug 2018Student thesis: Master
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A bottum-up approach for modeling the performance of partially shaded PV systems with power optimizers
Oranje, J. (Author), Loonen, R. C. G. M. (Supervisor 1) & Bognár, Á. (Supervisor 2), 20 Jul 2021Student thesis: Master
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A Case Study on Performance Degradation of Cooling Coils in the Netherlands
Sembian, S. (Author), Zeiler, W. (Supervisor 1), Slootweg, H. (Supervisor 2), Schellen, H. (Supervisor 2), van den Brink, A. (Supervisor 2) & Katic, K. (Supervisor 2), 20 Dec 2019Student thesis: Master
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