Building Environment

Research in this area has helped improve indoor and outdoor environments, such as HVAC systems to control indoor air temperature and humidity for thermal comfort and energy efficiency. Improving indoor built environments involves thermal, indoor air quality (IAQ), visual and acoustic aspects. Technology enabling ventilation and sound insulation has been applied in hostels, public housing estates and a private housing estate.

Theme Leader

Professor MAK Cheuk Ming

Members:

Professor NIU Jianlei
Dr CHAU Chi Kwan
Dr WEI Minchen
Dr YOU Ruoyu

Project

Professor MAK Cheuk Ming

Prediction of flow-generated noise from multiple in-duct elements in a ventilation system;
Noise control in a duct based on a Helmholtz resonator array;
Methods for assessing the performance of vibration isolators of building services equipment;
Effect of Speech Intelligibility in Classroom Acoustical Environment;
Development of active noise control algorithms and application to buildings using distributed acoustic network.

Professor MAK Cheuk Ming & Professor NIU Jianlei

Development of design methodologies for the improvement of wind and thermal comfort in the urban environment—(RGC CRF group research project); Interunit pollutant dispersion in buildings;
Envelope design to improve ventilation performance of residential buildings in dense urban environments.

Professor MAK Cheuk Ming & Dr WEI Minchen

IEQ through Daylighting and Smart LED Lighting.

Dr CHAU Chi Kwan

On the study of effects of different configurations of neighborhood sceneries on sound perceptions.

Dr WEI Minchen

Human Perception under Different Light Stimuli.