Building Physics and Services
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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.
This can only be achieved by a holistic approach to tackling the complexity of the problems at hand. The common long-term vision within the BPS research program is articulated as follows: “World-class excellent research in the different disciplines in Building Physics & Services to strongly contribute to a healthy, comfortable and sustainable indoor and outdoor built environment, taking into account economical, ecological and energetic constraints”.
BPS works across six interdepartmental research areas: Building Acoustics, Building Lighting, Building Materials, Building Performance, Building Physics (including Urban Physics and Building Physics of Monuments) and Building Services (including Integral Design)\ Research is focused on:\ - Building physics: experimental, theoretical and numerical modeling of physical aspects in the indoor and outdoor environment and the building envelope (heat, air and moisture transfer, wind, light and acoustics, building behavior simulation, systems, components and materials)\ - The design process related to sustainable buildings.
The mission of the research program is to contribute to research in the built environment in the field of Building Physics & Building Services in several areas:\ - scientific: fundamental and applied research; design and testing of solutions in prototypes, models, simulation and systems in practice\ - societal: focus on sustainability and comfort in a broad sense\ - knowledge dissemination to building designers and practitioners\ - information and communication technology: development of modern design tools\ - synergy and interaction between education, research and practice.
Research yields scientific results that contribute to the understanding and knowledge of physical behavior of buildings and environments and of Integral Building Design (processes). The BPS research is concerned with the development of tools for the analysis, design and conservation of a high-quality indoor and outdoor environment, in which energy efficiency, health, comfort and sustainability are key research topics. The program also provides knowledge to the building industry and engineering consultancy firms.
Research is organized as a network of collaborators within a common BPS research program with a single strategic mission. Synergy between research groups is essential to cover the interdisciplinary challenges that arise from the complexity of the built environment. In recent years, BPS has increasingly taken a leading role in energy, health and sustainability related programs, assuming roles in the Eindhoven Energy Institute, the 4TU (4l Universities of Technology) Focus point ‘Bouw’ (Built Environment) and the International Urban Physics Research Schools.
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.
[Department of the Built Environment
Building Materials
The goal of the BM research group is obtaining more sustainable, durable and functional materials and products.](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/building-physics-and-services/building-materials)[Department of the Built Environment
Building Lighting
The research of the BL group focuses on daylight as well as artificial lighting, including both fundamental and applied research.](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/building-physics-and-services/building-lighting)[Department of the Built Environment
Building Performance
The BP group contributes to a sustainable, energy-positive built environment with an optimal indoor environmental quality.](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/building-physics-and-services/building-performance)[Department of the Built Environment
Building Services
The group develops design methods and adapts building services technology to ensure buildings meet current and future requirements.](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/building-physics-and-services/building-services)[Department of the Built Environment
Building Acoustics
The BA group addresses adverse health effects caused by human induced noise, and promotes positively perceived sound environments.](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/building-physics-and-services/building-acoustics)[Department of the Built Environment
Building Physics
The BP group focuses on acquiring new knowledge and developing and integrating methods, based on physics research and application.](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/building-physics-and-services/building-physics)
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Meet some of our Researchers
[Assistant Professor
Pieter-Jan Hoes](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/pieter-jan-hoes)[Full Professor
Twan van Hooff](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/twan-van-hooff)[Assistant Professor
### Katrin Schollbach](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/katrin-schollbach)[Associate Professor \ (Part-time)
Marcel Loomans](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/marcel-loomans)[Project Manager
Lada Hensen Centnerová](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/lada-hensen-centnerova)[Assistant Professor
Florent Gauvin](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/florent-gauvin)[Assistant Professor
Lisanne Havinga](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/lisanne-havinga)[Full Professor
Jos Brouwers](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/jos-brouwers)[Assistant Professor
Mariëlle Aarts](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/marielle-aarts)[Assistant Professor
Rick Kramer](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/rick-kramer)[Assistant Professor
Cédric Van hoorickx](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/cedric-van-hoorickx)[Assistant Professor
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/juliette-van-duijnhoven)[Full Professor
Maarten Hornikx](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/maarten-hornikx)[Associate Professor
Qingliang Yu](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/qingliang-yu)
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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
[March 13, 2026
Making homes more sustainable leads to better health for children
Research by TU/e and VU shows that better insulation and ventilation lead to important health benefits for children.
Read more](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/13-03-2026-making-homes-more-sustainable-leads-to-better-health-for-children) [March 6, 2026
Turning building data into intelligent energy control
Lasitha Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Built Environment on March 5.
Read more](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/06-03-2026-turning-building-data-into-intelligent-energy-control) [March 2, 2026
Making sound design smarter: A hybrid approach to room acoustics
Wouter Wittebol defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Built Environment on February 27.
Read more](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/02-03-2026-making-sound-design-smarter-a-hybrid-approach-to-room-acoustics)
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
- [### Large eddy simulation of optimized air curtain separation via secondary co-flowing jets
Developments in the Built Environment
(2026)
Claudio Alanis Ruiz,Twan van Hooff,Bert Blocken](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/13649b1c-afef-4d9e-8ec3-bb693fc570ef) - [### Contaminant exposure in a pharmacy cleanroom with mixing ventilation
E3S Web of Conferences
(2025)
Peng Qin,T. van Hooff,Marcel G.L.C. Loomans,A.A.L. (Roberto) Traversari](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/563c7d9a-fd0f-4840-b491-84f46f2e269f) - [### Numerical modeling of upper-room UV germicidal irradiation
E3S Web of Conferences
(2025)
Claudio Alanis Ruiz,Marcel G.L.C. Loomans,T. van Hooff](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/e689740d-1ed6-4de9-b61a-b317a489e934) - [### Combining perforated ceiling and attic ventilation for night cooling in a single-zone building
E3S Web of Conferences
(2025)
Mutmainnah Mutmainnah,T. van Hooff,Stefanie Gillmeier,Bert Blocken](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/b3e11dfa-2bce-49fb-83e3-f811aa60b20a) - [### CFD-aided ventilation design for a large experimental chamber to study aerosol dispersion and removal
E3S Web of Conferences
(2025)
Luyang Kang,Peng Qin,Lili Xia,Jan Diepens,Twan van Hooff,Marcel Loomans](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/40db492e-96e2-473e-99fd-5b3088bc9373)
Contact
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Visiting address
Vertigo
Groene Loper 6
Eindhoven
Netherlands
+31(0)40 2472400 - ### Visiting address
Vertigo
Groene Loper 6
Eindhoven
Netherlands
+31(0)40 2472400 - ### Postal address
Department of the Built Environment
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
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Department of the Built Environment
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
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Secretary
secretariaat.bps@remove-this.tue.nl