Department of the Built Environment

Building Performance

Building Performance aims to optimize energy use and indoor environment during design and operation of new and existing buildings, to arrive at sustainable, healthy, productive and/or comfortable buildings.

Increasing sustainability by optimizing energy use and indoor environmental quality

Building Performance (BP) is a research group of the Building Physics and Services (BPS) unit at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The group’s aim is to contribute to achieving a sustainable, energy-positive built environment with indoor environmental quality optimized for health, comfort and/or productivity.
This requires a multi-scale / multi-physics and trans-disciplinary approach that addresses technological solutions for energy generation, storage, distribution and demand reduction, and integrates and optimizes these in design, construction and operation of new and existing buildings. A performance-based perspective is at the center of these activities, providing opportunities for informed decision-making in the development of designs, products and services that foster the sustainability transition.

Meet some of our Researchers

Doctoral Candidate

Bowen Tian

Postdoc

Meisam Farrokhifar

University Researcher

Evangelos Kyrou

Project Manager

Lada Hensen Centnerová

Doctoral Candidate

Shuwei Wang

Meet some of our Researchers

Assistant Professor

Pieter-Jan Hoes

Full Professor emeritus

Jan Hensen

Postdoc

Vasilis Soulios

Postdoc

Luyi Xu

Assistant Professor

Roel Loonen

Postdoc

Günsu Merin Abbas

Full Professor

Helianthe Kort

Postdoc

Magdalena Hajdukiewicz

Assistant Professor

Lisanne Havinga

Associate Professor

Marcel Loomans

How TU/e technology brings the endless power of the sun to your home (and car)

The potential of solar power is enormous: our planet intercepts some 173,000 terawatts of radiation from the sun at any time, 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. Harnessing this almost endless power source has been the driving force of much research at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The research covers a broad terrain of expertise and interests, ranging from the elemental building blocks of solar cells and upscaling of technology to industrial production, to enhancing the aesthetics of solar panels or application in solar-powered cars. And with success: it is estimated that almost one third of all solar cells worldwide contain technology pioneered by our researchers. We take you step by step through the whole chain: from fundamental research in the lab to the application in everyday life.

 

Projects

Research project

PVOpmaat: CustomFit: the integration of solar panels

Making the integration of solar panels in buildings more efficient, aesthetically pleasing and less expensive. This is the objective of the…

Research project

Werkelijk bouwen aan BIPV - "Really" building with BIPV

Recent Publications

Our most recent peer reviewed publications

Education

Bachelor Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Master Architecture, Building and Planning

Master Construction Management and Engineering

Contact

  • Visiting address

    Vertigo
    Groene Loper 6
    Eindhoven
    Netherlands

  • Visiting address

    Vertigo
    Groene Loper 6
    Eindhoven
    Netherlands

  • Postal address

    Department of the Built Environment
    P.O. Box 513
    5600 MB Eindhoven
    Netherlands

  • Postal address

    Department of the Built Environment
    P.O. Box 513
    5600 MB Eindhoven
    Netherlands

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