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Organization 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
Organisational 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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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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FaceINQ: Innovative dynamic Façade systems for INdoor environmental Quality
Hajdukiewicz, M. & Loomans, M. G. L. C.
1/01/23 → 31/03/24
Project: Research direct
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CLAIRE LSHM22032 - Clean Air For Everyone
van Hooff, T. A. J., Diepens, J., Qin, P. & Xia, L.
1/07/22 → 30/06/25
Project: Research direct
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HER+21-01740618 ZIEZO
Loonen, R. C. G. M., Pouyanmehr, M. & Ishac, M.
15/06/22 → 15/12/24
Project: Research direct
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3D printing concrete containing thermal responsive gelatin: Towards cold environment applications
Qu, Z., Yu, Q., Ong, G. P., Cardinaels, R., Ke, L., Long, Y. & Geng, G., Jul 2023, In: Cement and Concrete Composites. 140, 10 p., 105029.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A bottom-up framework for analysing city-scale energy data using high dimension reduction techniques
Khan, W., Walker, S. S. W. & Zeiler, W., 1 Feb 2023, In: Sustainable Cities and Society. 89, 15 p., 104323.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Accelerated thermal history analysis of light-burnt magnesium oxide by surface properties
Karimi, H. & Brouwers, H. J. H., Mar 2023, In: Results in Materials. 17, 11 p., 100368.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile10 Downloads (Pure)
Equipment
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Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel
Stefanie Gillmeier (Manager) & Geert-Jan Maas (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), Eindhoven University of Technology, 12 May 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7930160, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7930160
Dataset
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SimulationExplorer mock-up
de Klijn - Chevalerias, M. (Creator), TU/e, 2018
DOI: 10.4121/uuid:123503e0-cead-4c1e-8718-ff8a12b13c7f, https://data.4tu.nl/articles/_/12676424/1
Dataset
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Grey-brick buildings, an open data set of calibrated RC models of Dutch residential building heat dynamics
Leprince, J. (Creator), Miller, C. (Creator), Madsen, H. (Creator), Basu, K. (Creator), van der Vlist, R. (Creator) & Zeiler, W. (Creator), Zenodo, 6 Nov 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7180260, https://zenodo.org/record/7180260
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Prizes
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2nd price Postdoc Association TU/e (PDA) Best Paper Awards
van Duijnhoven, Juliëtte (Recipient), 10 Jun 2021
Prize: TU/e › Other › Scientific
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Additive manufacturing of functional construction materials on-demand
Lucas, Sandra S. (Recipient), Yu, Qingliang (Recipient) & Brouwers, H.J.H. (Jos) (Recipient), 18 Nov 2019
Prize: NWO › Other › Scientific
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Additive manufacturing of sustainable concrete for zero-energy buildings
Lucas, Sandra S. (Recipient), Yu, Qingliang (Recipient) & Brouwers, H.J.H. (Jos) (Recipient), 2019
Prize: NWO › Other › Scientific
Activities
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Indoor Air (Journal)
Alessio Ricci (Peer reviewer)
4 Jun 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
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Journal of Building Performance Simulation (Journal)
Alessio Ricci (Peer reviewer)
4 Jun 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
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Renewable Energy (Journal)
Roel C.G.M. Loonen (Peer reviewer)
23 May 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
Press/Media
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Ireland : Key appointments announced for Construct Innovate Technology Centre
2/05/23
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Key appointments announced for Construct Innovate Technology Centre
27/04/23
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Reports from Wuhan University Add New Data to Findings in Energy and Buildings (Scalable Cooling Cementitious Composites: Synergy Between Reflective, Radiative, and Evaporative Cooling)
17/04/23
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
Author: Wittebol, W., 31 Aug 2018Supervisor: Hak, C. C. J. M. (Supervisor 1), Hornikx, M. C. J. (Supervisor 2) & Wenmaekers, R. H. C. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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A bottum-up approach for modeling the performance of partially shaded PV systems with power optimizers
Author: Oranje, J., 20 Jul 2021Supervisor: Loonen, R. C. G. M. (Supervisor 1) & Bognár, Á. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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A Case Study on Performance Degradation of Cooling Coils in the Netherlands
Author: Sembian, S., 20 Dec 2019Supervisor: Zeiler, W. (Supervisor 1), Slootweg, H. (Supervisor 2), Schellen, H. (Supervisor 2), van den Brink, A. (Supervisor 2) & Katic, K. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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