ICE: Integrated Comfort Engineering
Achieving energy efficiency in buildings while staying comfortable within limits
iCE group 2022
The ICE lab focuses on an occupant-centered approach to the energy sufficiency of buildings by considering indoor (dis)comfort and well-being of people via advanced design and control of adaptive thermal systems.
The research is centered on reducing the operational energy of buildings by flexing the operational temperature of thermal systems by:
- personalized indoor thermal conditioning promoting well-being
- smart Machine Learning-based personalized controls
- adopting low-temperature emission systems
- adaptive hot water production considering hygiene issues
ICE is a research group within the smart living lab, which is a cutting-edge, inter-disciplinary, and interinstitutional platform focusing on sustainable buildings and well-being of occupants. Smart living lab concentrates its research on four core areas such as energy systems, construction techniques, interactions and design processes, well-being and behaviors.
