Department of the Built Environment

Building Physics and Services

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.

Enabling meaningful sustainability innovation through building physics and services research 

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.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND A MUSEUM VISIT

When visiting a museum, you don’t immediately think about all the work being done behind the scenes. A world of decay, fading colors, bended canvases and even cracked paint. Tackling these problems involves a lot of science. Because even though some paintings have been around for centuries, research into the ageing process of art works is still in its infancy. Several research groups at Eindhoven University of Technology are working to preserve our heritage, often in collaboration with major museums in the Netherlands. They use everything at their disposal to combat the metal soaps, moisture, salt and changes in temperature that cause damage to our paintings. 

Our Research Groups

Building Physics and Services works across six interdepartmental research groups.

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Building Materials

The goal of the BM research group is obtaining more sustainable, durable and functional materials and products.

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Building Lighting

The research of the BL group focuses on daylight as well as artificial lighting, including both fundamental and applied research.

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Building Performance

The BP group contributes to a sustainable, energy-positive built environment with an optimal indoor environmental quality.

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Building Services

The group develops design methods and adapts building services technology to ensure buildings meet current and future requirements.

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Building Acoustics

The BA group addresses adverse health effects caused by human induced noise, and promotes positively perceived sound environments.

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Building Physics

The BP group focuses on acquiring new knowledge and developing and integrating methods, based on physics research and application.

Meet some of our Researchers

Project Manager

Lada Hensen Centnerová

Associate Professor

Twan van Hooff

University Lecturer

Bert van Schaijk

Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel

The wind tunnels on the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) facilitate aerodynamic and boundary layer research on static and moving objects, at both small and large scale. 

News

January 19, 2023
Improving the environmental impact of supplementary cementitious materials
Tao Liu defended his PhD thesis at the department of Built Environment on January 19th.
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January 16, 2023
Prof. Silvia Lenaerts of University of Antwerp becomes new TU/e rector
Lenaerts will become the first female rector magnificus of TU/e.
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From left to right: Robert-Jan Smits, Nicole Ummelen and Frank Baaijens
January 10, 2023
All the best for 2023!
Read the New Year's message of the TU/e board here.
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Research meets practice

Our group has a well-equipped Laboratory of 2100 m2m, with highly qualified technical staff. Research is carried out in the laboratory as well as ‘on site’. The basic facilities allow for a wide range of experiments in all aspects of building physics: acoustics; light; air quality; heat, air and moisture transfer; wind flow; material science.

Our research meets practice in the spin-off Level Acoustics BV as well as in the outdoor research facility for so-called building-integrated solar energy: SolarBEAT (Solar Building Elements Application Testing). SolarBEAT is a joint venture between TU/e and SEAC (Solar Energy Application Center, an initiative of TNO, ECN and branch organization Holland Solar).

Recent Publications

Our most recent peer reviewed publications

Student opportunities

Are you interested in the Bachelor’s and Master’s courses we offer? The focus of attention of Building Physics and Services is on physical aspects and processes to support and design healthy, comfortable and sustainable indoor and outdoor built environments. BPS relates to heat and moisture transfer in building constructions, urban physics and wind engineering, indoor air quality, building performance, lighting, building and urban acoustics, heating, ventilation, airconditioning and materials.

 

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