Consultancy
Heat, air and mass transfer in building material, building parts and whole buildings
A wide range of standardised or custom-built experimental setups are use to characterise:
- Measurements of material properties (heat and moisture capacity and transfer properties, vapour permeability, airtightness, salt transport properties, microstructural properties).
- Measurements of the performance of building parts under laboratory conditions (hot box-cold box).
- Measurements of the performance analysis of building parts under climatological conditions (VLIET test building).
Energy performance of buildings and installations
- Energy performance analysis of office buildings, residential buildings, etc.
- Measurement of building air leaks and infrared thermography techniques.
- Assessment of thermal comfort.
- On-site measurements of the energy performance of existing buildings.
Urban physics
- Studies of wind comfort in the built environment using numerical simulations (CFD).
- Analysis of wind-driven rain load on building facades.
Acoustics
- Testing of airborne and impact sound insulation in a ISO 140 transmission set-up and in-situ .
- Quantifying sound absorption properties in a tube test set-up, in the reverberant room or in situ,.
- Determination of sound intensity and sound power.
- Measurement of room acoustical properties.
- Binaural recording, subjective testing.
- Acoustical quality analysis.
