Energy in Buildings Research Group (EiBRGroup)
Introduction of the Research Group
Hosted at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Energy in Buildings Research Group consists of 6 lecturers-researchers and 3 PhD students. The EiBRGroup participated in several European and National research programs and maintains fruitful relations with research institutes and universities in Europe. The EiBRGroup's research areas are energy efficiency and renewable energy systems in buildings: nearly and net zero energy buildings, smart buildings and communities, occupant behavior, dynamic thermal simulation, building stock modeling, big data analysis.
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Achievements
- Development of next generation energy certificates in project QualDeEPC- building stock assessment and scenario analysis for Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania in SLED project
- Development of occupant profiles based on a big data analysis of smart meters in Hungarian residential buildings
- transposition of the energy performance of buildings directive into national legislation
- analysis of transpired solar collectors for night cooling
Publications
Czétány, László ; Customs, Victoria ; Horváth, Miklós ; Szalay, Zsuzsa ; Mota-Babylonia, Adriatic ; Deme-Bélafi, Zsófia ; Csoknyai, Tamás: Development of electricity consumption profiles of residential buildings based on smart meter data clustering, Energy and Buildings 252 Paper: 111376 , 19 p, 2021AL Pisello, I. Pigliautile, M. Andargie, C. Berger, PM Bluyssen, S .Carlucci, G. Chinazzo, Z. Deme Belafi, B. Dong, M. Favero, A. Ghahramani, G. Havenith, A. Heydarian, D. Kastner, M. Kong, D. Licina, Y. Liu, A. Luna-navarro, A. Mahdavi, A. Nocente, M. Schweiker, M. Touchie, M. Vellei, F. Vittori, A. Wagner, A. Wang, S. Wei: Test rooms to study human comfort in buildings : A review of controlled experiments and facilities, Renew.Sustain. Energy Rev. 149 (2021) 111359, 2021
Balázs Bokor, Hacer Akhan, Dogan Eryener, Miklós Horváth: Nocturnal passive cooling by transpired solar collectors, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021
Tamás Csoknyai, Jeremy Legardeur, Audrey Abi Akle, Miklós Horváth: Analysis of energy consumption profiles in residential buildings and impact assessment of a serious game on occupants' behavior, ENERGY AND BUILDINGS 196: pp. 1-20., 2019
Tamás Csoknyai, Sára Hrabovszky-Horváth, Zdravko Georgiev, Milica Jovanovic-Popovic, Bojana Stankovic, Otto Villatoro, Gábor Szendrő: Building stock characteristics and energy performance of residential buildings in Eastern-European countries, ENERGY AND BUILDINGS 132 : pp. 39-52
Journals
Energy and Buildings, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energy EfficiencyInfrastructure
Simulation tools Trnsys, DesignBuilder and other software tools (Heat, Winwatt), Mathlab, AutoDesk. 3 department laboratories (https://www.epget.bme.hu/laborok.php) - Macskássy comfort, air quality and air condition laboratory - Stokes laboratory (heat production and hydronics) - Ventilation laboratoryProjects
KNOWnNEBs: Integration of non-energy benefits into energy audit practices to accelerate the uptake of recommended measures, LIFE-PJG / LIFE-2021-CET-AUDITS, 2022-2025 (contracting in progress)QualDeEPC: High-quality Energy Performance Assessment and Certification in Europe Accelerating Deep Energy Renovation, Horizon2020, 2019-2023
Elaboration of tasks related to the energy performance of buildings directive 2018 recast (national), Ministry for Technology and Innovation, 2019-2020
Greenplay, objective: monitoring of the impact on energy using habits of people by the application of a serious game, Horizon2020, 2015-2018
HI-SMART: Higher Education Package for Nearly Zero Energy and Smart Building Design, Erasmus+, 2019-2022
EPISCOPE/TABULA: Typology Approach for Building Stock Energy Assessment / Energy Performance Indicator Tracking Schemes for the Continuous Optimization of Refurbishment Processes in European Housing Stocks, Intelligent Energy Europe Programme, 2012-16
SLED: Support for Low-Emission Development Strategies in South Eastern Europe ; Austrian Development Agency, 2013-2016