The research and education within building services engineering focuses on systems solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling, lighting, and control technology. Our goal is to develop and to teach about solutions that provide a healthy indoor environment while minimising the impact on the outdoor
environment.
People spend most of their lives indoors – at home, in the working place or in public spaces. The quality of the indoor space affect our health and well-being, and to ensure a good indoor environment, buildings need technical installations.
Research
Different activities require different indoor environments and pose different challenges in creating and maintaining these environments. Our health and well-being are impacted significantly by our spending most of our time indoors, either in our homes or at work.
The indoor environment also has a large impact on many manufacturing processes, as well as on products and items stored and maintained indoors, such as food products and museum pieces. What counts as a suitable indoor environment will therefore vary; the kind of technical installation needed to ensure a given indoor environment will also vary depending on the building activities.
Our research aims to ensure the suitable indoor environment for a range of activities in buildings.
Here’s how we do it:
- We analyse needs and specify suitable requirements on the indoor environment based on building activities
- We focus on the thermal climate, air quality, sound and noise, and light and lighting
- We develop knowledge about the technical installations required for a suitable indoor environment for a given building activity
- We explore the consequences of the energy use and external environmental impact of the requirements of various building activities
Education
The field of building services engineering is based on fundamental technology areas, including energy technology, fluid machinery, and heat and electric power engineering. Our courses offer a fundamental understanding of how buildings work in terms of climate technology, the factors that determine the indoor climate when a building is in use, and the
requirements that technology solutions in a building must satisfy.
