Projects
Assessing the energy, thermal comfort and economic impact of Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) - Towards a reliable evaluation for new and retrofitted residential buildings. University of Antwerp
Building on the edge. A socio-cultural approach of rural stone domestic buildings on the north-western edge of the Roman Empire Ghent University
Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point in the history of the region and reveals how native inhabitants were engaging with the Roman cultural sphere. This project investigates an understudied corpus of rural stone dwellings in north-western Gaul, not as so often from an economic point of ...
Assessing the energy, thermal comfort and economic impact of Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) - Towards a reliable evaluation for new and retrofitted residential buildings University of Antwerp
Building on the edge. A socio-cultural approach of rural stone domestic buildings on the north-western edge of the Roman Empire Ghent University
Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point in the history of the region and reveals how native inhabitants were engaging with the Roman cultural sphere. This project investigates an understudied corpus of rural stone ...
Integrated Building Information and decision management environment for repurposing and deep renovation of residential and non-residential buildings KU Leuven
Nowadays, engineers in their activities are increasingly turning to reconstruction and renovation building projects. This is interconnected with numerous macro-, micro-and socio-economic factors of urban environment changes. Redevelopment is the most effective method of returning to the efficient use of already existing facilities or former industrial areas. But, in contrast with new building projects, building redevelopment projects and ...
Building Information Models (BIM) as a facilitator for energy neutral and zero-carbon buildings KU Leuven
Building Information Models (BIM) as a facilitator for energy neutral and zero-carbon buildings This PhD-project is a joint collaboration between the University of Leuven and the BBRI (Belgian Building Research Institute) and focuses on the many sources with valuable data that nowadays become available for the built environment such as Building Information Models (BIM). In this research project it is explored how this data can maximally be ...
Optimal Operation of Thermostatically Controlled Loads in Residential Buildings under Uncertainty – From a Building to an Electricity System Perspective KU Leuven
Advanced control strategies, and model predictive control (MPC) in particular, are gaining widespread attention for building climate control, since they can systematically save energy and/or costs with simultaneous thermal comfort improvement, as well as adapt the energy demand in correspondence with the available (renewable/residual) supply via demand response. The performance of any MPC strategy is dependent on the accuracy of the ...
Multi-level Characterisation of the Building Energy Performance of Residential Buildings based on Analysis of Measurement Data. KU Leuven
In support of the energy transition in the built environment, knowledge on
performance characteristics of the building fabric and technical systems is
essential for various applications, such as quality assurance, the development of
renovation strategies, or the appraisal of the potential for demand side flexibility.
In practice, the available information on the existing building stock is often
limited and of poor ...