Faas Moonen
Phone
+31 40 247 2564Group / Unit
Innovative Structural DesignDepartment / Section
The Built EnvironmentBuilding
VertigoFloor / room
9.33Research Profile
Faas Moonen is an associate professor of Innovative Structural Design at the department of the Built Environment. Research in the area of Innovative Structural Design focuses Adaptive Structural Systems, Lightweight Structures, Life Cycle Design of Structures, Parametric Structural Optimisation, and Integrated Design of Structures. His research is involved in the Smart Cities program at TU/e.
Academic Background
Faas Moonen obtained his MSc from the department of the Built Environment of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, the Netherlands) in 1983. In 1984, after a short period as independent consultant in design and construction, he became a structural designer at Philips-AIB. In 1992, he was appointed assistant professor of Timber Structures at the department of the Built Environment at TU/e. In 2001, he was appointed associate professor in Innovative Structural Design at the same TU/e department. In 2001 he also obtained his PhD with his thesis "Ontwerp van een geïndustrialiseerde funderingswijze" (Developing an industrialized foundation), supervised by professors Harry Rutten and Leo Wagemans. From 2006 until 2013, Faas Moonen was director of Education at the TU/e department of the Built Environment. In 2011 he received the 55th TU/e Anniversary Award (theme Energy), in 2012 the Herman Wijffels Innovation Award, and in 2014 he was awarded the STW Design Prize.
Recent Publications
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E. Pujadas,Floor van Schie,Patrick Lenaers,Marius Lazauskas,Sandrius Ungurys,Faas Moonen
GEM tower
(2019) -
R.R.L. van Loon,E. Pujadas,Faas Moonen,Rijk Blok
Environmental optimization of precast concrete beams using fibre reinforced polymers
Sustainability (2019) -
S.P.G. Moonen
Visibility of sustainability: the making of the itinerant pavilion ‘summerlabb’
International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements (2017) -
T.T. Veeger,S.P.G. Moonen
Various challenging students assignments : cases of creations realized on festivals and events
Integrated Design Conference ID@50 (2016) -
S.P.G. Moonen,T.T. Veeger
Evaluation assessment carrousel : providing feedback in different stages of a problem-based learning-assigment
Integrated Design Conference ID@50 (2016)
Educational Activities
- Honors part 1 track Smart Cities
- Honors part 2 track Smart Cities
- Practical assignment bouwkundewinkel
- Practical assignment bouwkundewinkel
- Structrual design, capita selecta
- Multidisciplinary project 2
Ancillary Activities
- Advieswerk (bouwkundig), Zelfstandige
- Secretaris, Ontwikkelen software, Werkgroep Coge van Vereniging v. Hout Constructeurs