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Organization profile
Introduction / mission
Building Services aims to design future proof buildings with minimal renewable energy usage by seamlessly integrating building services with building design.
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Designing efficiently healthy, comfortable indoor environments with minimal renewable energy usage
Organisational profile
Building Services (BA) is a research group of the Building Physics and Services (BPS) unit at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The main educational and research theme for the group is the seamless integration of the building services with design of building. The focus is on developing design methods and adapting building services technology to ensure buildings can efficiently cater to current and future requirements, which are susceptible to fast changes.
The building sector is responsible for around 40% of total energy consumption in European countries, offering vast scope for savings. People spend about 90% of their lives in buildings and their behavior can significantly influence this energy consumption. The combination of expertise surrounding buildings, with a focus on energy, comfort and health aspects of the indoor and outdoor environment, is unique. Traditional building process control lack real time input from occupant preferences and ‘human-in-the-loop’ strategies can help manage individualized comfort needs in the most efficient way. Research is carried out in the dedicated laboratory as well as in real life situations and predicting human thermal responses and understanding human thermoregulation reactions in different office building environmental conditions are essential.
The group identifies two main research directions:
- The concept of ‘Individual’ comfort system whereby each occupant has control over local climate. This localized control has to be integrated in overall control at room or building level. Focus point will be on school ventilation, as in 75% of the schools the indoor conditions are far from optimal.
- Development of a Distributed Building Energy Management System. The multi-level approach adopted by the group provides good cooperation opportunities with smart power grids and local sustainable power sources. Special focus is the energy flexibility of buildings.
Key research topics include:
- Building Energy Management Systems
- Thermal comfort and optimal personalized control
- Commissioning and Big Data analysis
There is cooperation with Electrical Energy Systems from the Department of Electrical Engineering of TU/e and the Centre for Mathematics and Informatics (CWI) Amsterdam in the domain of Intelligent Buildings and Smart Grid.
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Profiles

Basar Bozkaya
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Services - Former Doctoral Candidate
Person: Unknown

Alet van den Brink
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Services - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)

Christian J. Finck
- Department of the Built Environment, Building Services - Former Doctoral Candidate
Person: Unknown
Projects 2018 2021
- 1 Active
DYNKA - DYNamisch licht en binnenklimaat voor KAntoren
de Kort, Y. A. W., Smolders, K. C. H. J., Kompier, M. E., de Kort, Y. A. W., Zeiler, W., Jansen, R., Jansen, R., Croes, S., Vereggen - Tielemans, T. & Vereggen - Tielemans, T.
1/01/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Research direct
Research Output 1979 2020
The energy efficient use of an air handling unit for balancing an aquifer thermal energy storage system
Bozkaya, B. & Zeiler, W., 1 Feb 2020, In : Renewable Energy. 146, p. 1932-1942 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
A data mining-based method for revealing occupant behavior patterns in using mechanical ventilation systems of Dutch dwellings
Ren, X., Zhang, C., Zhao, Y., Boxem, G., Zeiler, W. & Li, T., 15 Jun 2019, In : Energy and Buildings. 193, p. 99-110 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Analyzing possibilities of using energy from surface and sewage water for the energy transition of the built environment: study in the Netherlands
Hetebrij, R., Walker, S. & Zeiler, W., Sep 2019, p. 142. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Professional
Prizes
B.J. Max Prijs
Rick P. Kramer (Recipient), 13 Nov 2019
Prize: Other › Discipline related › Professional
KIC-Innoenergy Master Scholarship
Shalika Walker (Recipient), Sep 2014
Prize: Other › Fellowships & memberships › Scientific
Activities 2014 2019
Data Science Summit 2019
Waqas Khan (Participant)Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific
Data Science Summit 2019
Shalika S.W. Walker (Participant)Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Professional
Applied Computational Sciences (ACOS) symposium 2019
Shalika S.W. Walker (Participant)Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific
Press / Media
De Kringloopklus. Interview by De Ingenieur
11/02/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Op naar de top; leren circulair bouwen. Bijdrage NVBV Vakblad Bouwfysica.
4/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
‘We have the nerds and the hippies’: how Eindhoven became innovation city'. Article in the Guardian.
28/06/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Student theses
A strategy for investigating effects of technical transition scenarios to more sustainable gasless existing districts: a case study
Author: Kraakman, J., 28 May 2019Supervisor: Zeiler, W. (Supervisor 1), Walker, S. (Supervisor 2) & Heijmans, B. (External person) (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
ATES system HTC: analysing ATES operation as first step towards a Smart Thermal Grid at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven
Author: Ziel, K., 31 Aug 2017Supervisor: Zeiler, W. (Supervisor 1), Boxem, G. (Supervisor 2) & Bozkaya, B. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
Automated two-way coupled CFD fire and thermomechanical FE analyses of a self-supporting sandwich panel façade system
Author: de Boer, J., 26 Jun 2018Supervisor: Hofmeyer, H. (Supervisor 1), Maljaars, J. (Supervisor 2) & van Herpen, R. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master