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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
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Asutosh Boro
- Built Environment, Building Services - Postgraduate Design Engineer
Person: TOIO : EngPD-trainee
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Alet H.T.M. van den Brink
- Built Environment, Building Services - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
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Animesh Chalga
- Built Environment, Building Services - Postgraduate Design Engineer
Person: TOIO : EngPD-trainee
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Brains for Building's Energy Systems MOOI20FNVCU
Zeiler, W., Pauwels, P., Guerra Santin, O., Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage, L. C., Mohammed, K., Gopalan, S. & Upasani, N.
1/04/21 → 31/03/25
Project: Research direct
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Continous Commissioning of low-dT
Zeiler, W. & Gunderi, K. M.
1/09/19 → 15/12/21
Project: Research direct
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Intelligente sturing zonwering
Hensen, J. L. M., de Vries, S. B., Ghosh, O., Nelissen, E. & Loonen, R. C. G. M.
1/05/18 → 30/04/19
Project: Research direct
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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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Personal comfort systems and cognitive performance: Effects on subjective measures, cognitive performance, and heart rate measures
Luo, W., Kramer, R. P., de Kort, Y. A. W., Rense, P., Adam, J. & van Marken Lichtenbelt, W. D., 1 Jan 2023, In: Energy and Buildings. 278, 17 p., 112617.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The distribution and transport of water in oil paintings: A numerical moisture diffusion model
Duivenvoorden, J. R., Kramer, R. P., van Eikema Hommes, M. H., Iedema, P. D., Hermans, J. J. & Keune, K., 1 Mar 2023, In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 202, 12 p., 123682.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile5 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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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: 10.1145/3560905.3567760, https://zenodo.org/record/7180260
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JulienLeprince/greybrickbuildings_v1.0
Leprince, J. (Creator), Miller, C. (Creator), Madsen, H. (Creator), Basu, K. (Creator), van der Vlist, R. (Creator) & Zeiler, W. (Creator), Zenodo, 10 Oct 2022
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Prizes
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B.J. Max Prijs
Kramer, Rick P. (Recipient), 13 Nov 2019
Prize: Other › Discipline related › Professional
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B.J. Max prijs, categorie Bewezen expert
van den Brink, Alet (Recipient), 14 Nov 2018
Prize: Other › Discipline related › Professional
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Commit2Data Poster Competition
Khan, Waqas (Recipient), 9 Mar 2021
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Activities
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Slim Geregeld
Rick P. Kramer (Organiser)
13 Dec 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Conference › Professional
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Slim Geregeld
Rick P. Kramer (Invited speaker)
13 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
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ISSO (External organisation)
Rick P. Kramer (Member)
1 Nov 2022 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of network › Professional
Press / Media
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Reports from Maastricht University Advance Knowledge in Energy and Buildings (Personal Comfort Systems and Cognitive Performance: Effects On Subjective Measures, Cognitive Performance, and Heart Rate Measures)
29/12/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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The meridian: podcast: Groeten uit e-topia
Elphi Nelissen
7/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Expert panel helps hospitals with air control in relation to Corona
27/03/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
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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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A conceptual design and analysis of a micro-trigeneration system for the Dutch residential sector
Author: Boink, S., 2007Supervisor: van Steenhoven, A. A. (Supervisor 1), Frijns, A. J. H. (Supervisor 2), Boxem, G. (Supervisor 2) & de Lange, H. C. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Assessing Energy Flexibility using a Building’s Thermal Mass as Heat Storage: a case study on demand response in office buildings retrofitted with a heat pump
Author: Tantawi, M. Z., 31 Mar 2020Supervisor: Mohammadi, Z. (Supervisor 1), Papachristou, C. (Supervisor 2), van Goch, T. A. J. (External coach), Hoes, P. (Supervisor 2) & Hensen, J. L. M. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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