Research
The department of Building Technology focuses her scientific research on the domain of the Technology of Building. This research has strong design relations, but stretches between the extreme ends of fundamental technical research and application directed design and includes technology development as her central domain. New knowledge and insight from this research is published in articles, books, conferences and symposiums and realised prototypes.
In the area of research, the department has positioned itself against the background of the field of tension between Design and Engineering. Within this field the research programs ‘Green Building Innovation’ and ‘Computation & Performance’ have been developed.
The department can look back at a successful past concerning research which on the one hand allows for a direct coupling between MSc education and research projects and on the other hand offers opportunities for indirect and contract research funding. Against the background of the diversity in themes and research projects, the department focuses on fundamental theory development, knowledge transfer, the development of tools, prototypes and technology which can directly be implemented in practice.
Concerning research funding, the department aims at both acquiring funds from the government and from industry to be active on both a fundamental level as and applicational level. An active national and international network takes care of the actual research activities, writes publications and organizes conferences which attract high number of visitors. All of this reflects the international reputation of the department. PhD candidates are employed as part of a chair but participate in one of the research programs closest to their topics.
Computation & Performance
The research program Computation & Performance in an interdisciplinary context deals with the improvement of the performance of buildings using computational methods for model generation, analysis, decision support and design communication. The performances of buildings comprise both the technical and the qualitative performances – the physical and the psychological. The research concentrates on the development of design tools for determining the performances of a building, on the actual application of these tools in the design process, on the support of interdisciplinary cooperation in the design process with ICTK (Information, Communication and Knowledge Technology) and on the holistic redefinition of the relation between function, architectural form and performance. Within the research program, investigators closely collaborate with the chair Hyperbody of the faculty of Architecture and the Structural Design Lab of the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
Green Building Innovation
The research program Green Building Innovation deals with energy in the built environment and with technically oriented or optimized technologies, systems and products which are developed for the building industry as innovations; in a band width from strategically oriented tools to directly employable technologies, which can be applied on a large as well as a small scale of application.
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