Head:

Prof. Elżbieta Kossecka, Ph.D., D.Sc.

phone: (48-22) 826 12 81 ext. 171

room: 707A
e-mail: ekossec@ippt.gov.pl

Secretary:

Elżbieta Rybakiewicz

phone: (48-22) 826-98-34; (48-22) 826-12-81 ext. 228

room: 308

e-mail: eryba@ippt.gov.pl

The Department has four Divisions:

• Building Environment and Optimization (Prof. Wojciech Marks, Ph.D., D.Sc.)
• Solar Energy Engineering (Prof. Wojciech Dzieniszewski, Ph.D., D.Sc.)
• Environmental Acoustics (Assoc. Prof. Mirosław Meissner, Ph.D., D.Sc.)
• Strain Fields (Prof. Janusz Kasperkiewicz, Ph.D., D.Sc.)

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Staff:

Professors:

Wojciech Dzieniszewski, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Janusz Kasperkiewicz, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Elżbieta Kossecka, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Wojciech Marks, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Associate Professors:

Michał A. Glinicki, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Mirosław Meissner, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Elżbieta Walerian, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Senior Researchers:

Maria Marks, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Hanna Jędrzejuk, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Dorota Bzowska, Ph.D.

Dorota Chwieduk, Ph.D.

Ryszard Janczur, Ph.D.

Daria Jóźwiak-Niedźwiedzka, Ph.D.

Agnieszka Litorowicz, Ph.D.

Ryszard Wnuk, Ph.D.

Marek Zieliński, Ph.D.

Graduates:

Mieczysław Czechowicz, M.Sc.

Włodzimierz Pomierny, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Students:

mgr Emilia Błach, M.Sc.

mgr Danuta Kowalska, M.Sc.

mgr Anna Mikołajczak, M.Sc.

mgr Grzegorz Nowowiejski, M.Sc.

mgr Lidia Pytel, M.Sc.

mgr Tomasz Walczak, M.Sc.

mgr Maciej Zawidzki, M.Sc.

Technicians:

Maciej Sobczak

Jolanta Wołowicz

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Current Research Activities:

• Modelling of heat and mass transfer processes in buildings and composed media.
• Modelling of mutual interactions between environment and buildings - its influence on thermal comfort and energy consumption saving.
• Optimization of the building shape and structure and their elements, static and dynamic optimization of heat source utilisation in building sector.
• Thermovision analysis of building envelope and building energy parameter estimation.
• Theoretical and experimental analysis of solar energy devices and energy storage systems; its application in building sector.
• Analysis of phase change for energy storage and transfer.
• Modelling of ground heat storage.
• Theoretical description of acoustical field in space with obstacles used for description of noise propagation in built-up areas.
• Theoretical and experimental investigation of aerodynamic noise generation in piping systems and research works on acoustic field parameters in rooms of complex shape.
• Theoretical and experimental investigation of composites with brittle matrix. Test and design methods of cement based materials.

Key Words:

• low energy buildings, heat and mass transfer, static and dynamic optimization, solar energy, renewable energy storage, simulation of thermal and climatic processes, active and passive solar systems, monitoring and diagnosis of building energy systems, wave propagation, noise control, aeroacoustics, sound generation, composites, brittle matrix, high performance concretes, fibre reinforced concretes, computer image analysis, neural network and other soft methods in materials design, optimization of materials.