Head:

Prof. Elżbieta Kossecka, Ph.D., Dr habil.

phone: +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 171

room: 334
e-mail: ekossec@ippt.gov.pl

Secretary:

Elżbieta Rybakiewicz

phone: +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 228

room: 329

e-mail: eryba@ippt.gov.pl

The Department has three Divisions:

• Building Environment and Optimization (Prof. Elżbieta Kossecka, Ph.D., Dr habil.)
• Environmental Acoustics (Assoc. Prof. Mirosław Meissner, Ph.D., Dr habil.)
• Strain Fields (Michał A. Glinicki Ph.D., Dr habil.)

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Staff:

Professors:

Elżbieta Kossecka, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Associate Professors:

Michał A. Glinicki, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Mirosław Meissner, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Elżbieta Walerian, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Senior Researchers:

Maria Marks, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Hanna Jędrzejuk, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Dorota Chwieduk, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Ryszard Janczur, Ph.D.

Daria Jóźwiak-Niedźwiedzka, Ph.D.

Graduates:

Mieczysław Czechowicz, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Students:

Ewa Duda, M.Sc.

Danuta Kowalska, M.Sc.

Grzegorz Nowowiejski, M.Sc.

Tomasz Walczak, M.Sc.

Technicians:

Jolanta Wołowicz, M.Sc.

Maciej Sobczak

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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.
• 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.
• 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.