The paper presenting the open-source tool TEASER has been published in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation on Taylor & Francis Online.

The first conference within the new funding initiative ENERGIEWENDEBAUEN was held on 30 and 31 January 2017 at the EUREF campus in Berlin. The conference focused on research topics considering efficient technologies and intelligent concepts for electricity and heat applications. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) is funding the project.

The EBC caught up with new developments and building trends during the two-year fair BAU in Munich, the world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems. In 2017, the fair presented itself with the four leading themes on the future of building: "Intelligent Facade", "Digital Planning, Building and Operation", "Networked Buildings" and "Building and Housing 2020".

Within the project EwWalt (energy-related valuation of decentralized alternating domestic ventilation), a kickoff meeting took place at EBC on 14^th December 2016. It is carried out in cooperation with iTG Dresden and HLK Stuttgart, while EBC is simulating motion and structures of indoor air flow with CFD.

Welcoming over 30 participants, the beginning of the project was well visited by the involved industry.

On December 8, 2016 the annual team day of the team "Building Energy Systems" took place at EBC. After a review of the last year we commonly developed strategies to continue our successful work in our exciting research area. We look forward on applying them in 2017!

On November 7^th 2016, Mr Akbar Halimov started working at the institute. Akbar supports the Team Building Energy Systems in the analysis of phase change materials in buildings. He is a guest researcher from Usbekistan holding a three year scholarship from his home country.

The Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University released “AixLib”, a Modelica model-library that contains more than 400 items which focus on building performance simulations.

The EBC was represented with four presentations at this year's DKV Congress.

At the Ventilation 2015 conference Paul Mathis has presented a paper by the title “Heat Removal in Shopping Centers with High Cooling Loads by Air-Water Systems with Small Fresh Air Amount and High Cold Water Supply Temperature”. This is a collaborative work of several EBC researchers, including air quality research by Jana Panašková, Daniela HEGEMANN and Verena BRAUNSTEIN as well as optimization of active chilled beam systems by Henning Freitag and overall system analysis with CFD by Paul Mathis himself. The paper earned a best paper award.

The Cisbat 2015 "Future Buildings and Districts - Sustainability form Nano to Urban Scale" took place from 9^th to 11^th September in Lausanne.

Am 14. August fand die Exkursion des EBC statt, die dieses Jahr ganz im Zeichen der erneuerbaren Energie stand.

The EBC participates with five presentations at the ECOS 2015 conference in Pau, France.

The article "MIP approach for designing heating systems in residential buildings and neighbourhoods" in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation has been published on Taylor & Francis Online

The Japanese scientiest Shin-ichi Tanabe visited the E.ON ERC. Scope of his visit was to improve the international cooperation with regards to thermal comfort and building energy technology.

Good news the GUtech ECOHAUS has received further recognition in the region.

 At the "Middle East & North Africa Interior Design & Architecture Awards 2015" held in Dubai this week, we were shortlisted as "Best Residential Project (Large)" and won in the category "Best Sustainable Project".

The Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate published validation data for room air flows today. The were retrieved from the Aachen Model Room (AMoR).

Hassan Harb and Thomas Schütz present their research at EfS 2015 in Coimbra, Portugal.

The 9^th Project manager Meeting for EnEff:Stadt will take place in Aachen from May 11^th-12^th

Several approaches for modelling thermally stratified storage units in mixed integer linear programs were compared in a peer-reviewed journal article at "Energy and Buildings".

Six final theses have been defended successfully between November 19^th and November 26^th.

Max Huber reports about results at KommA 2014.

Four EBC associates participated at this year's conference of the German Society of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, DKV, in Düsseldorf.

Between October, 27^th and November 7^th, nine final theses were successfully presented at the E.ON ERC.

EBC participates with four presentations at World Sustainable Buildings 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.

Experts participated at the building-physics conference  in Düsseldorf on November, 4^th  with interesting articles on current topics in the areas of noise control, room acoustics, energy supply and the renovation of existing buildings.

EBC participates at Roomvent 2014 at São Paulo, Brazil

Three students of EBC support the German University of Technology (GUTech) in Oman participating the Eco-Friendly House competition.

Today two master's and one bachelor's thesis were successfully defended at the Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate.

Most of the technical sessions took place at the second day of BauSIM. Michael Wetter was awarded the best paper award at the Conference Dinner in the evening.

BauSIM 2014 started monday, September 22^nd. The conference is focused on Buildings for Humans.

Three scientist from E.ON Energy Research Center participated in the Annex 60 Meeting at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 15^th - 17^th September 2014.

On September 3^rd, Tobias Czarnecki successfully defended his bachelor's thesis in front of staff members of EBC.

Paul Matis participates at ASME 2014 Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting (FEDSM2014) in Chicago.

Two master's theses were successfully defended at EBC on August, 20^th.

On August 12th, one bachelor's and one master's thesis were successfully defended at the Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate.

Two master's theses were successfully defended at EBC on August, 8^th.

A paper about adaptive control of heating systems was published in the July Issue of SHT (a german magazin). We reported the results of the first field test we conducted with our self-designed adaptive control system. The article is available only in German language.  

EBC is represented at the world’s leading conference for indoor air quality and climate. Henning Freitag contributes with a poster presentation.

The Final Report "Adaptive Control" can be accessed online via the Technischen Informationsbibliothek (Technical Information Library) of Hannover University.

With about  90 visitors, the fifth Symposium "Buildings - Energy - Technology" at the E.ON Energy Research Center was well attended.

Today a diploma, master's and bachelor's thesis were successfully defended at the Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate.

E.ON ERC EBC participates with three employees at the EU SoS Research Cluster Meeting.

While the German national soccer team still has to make its way into the world cup's final, Hassan Harb is already vice-champion in paper writing!

EBC participates from June 15^th to 19^th with four employees at ECOS 2014 in Finland.

Conference participation of EBC with six employees from June 23^th and 24^th at Building Simulation and Optimization (BSO14) in London.

Two final theses were successfully presented and defended on June 17^th 2014.

Conference participation from June 2^nd to 6^th at 35^th 'FISITA World Automotive Congress' in Maastricht and at 9^th session of 'Wärmemanagement des KFZ' in Potsdam.

One master's thesis and three bachelor's theses were successfully defended on June, 4^th.

For this years BauSIM in Aachen, 122 Papers were accepted. BauSIM 2014 will take place in Aachen from 22.-24^th September with the main topic "Human-Centered Building"

With talks about the advances in thermal energy storages, three EBC staff members attended a seminar in Lleide Spain from May 28^th - 30^th.

On Mai 28th 2014, Lutz Schiffer and Alexander Sichwart successfully presented and defended their bachelor theses in front of staff members from EBC and ACS as well as student workers.

On May 21^st, Jan Reinhardt successfully defended his master theses in front of staff members of EBC.

Carl Punkenburg, Markus Siethoff, Pascal Block, Michael Staszewki and Julian Niebel successfully presented and defended their final theses in front of staff members and student workers of EBC on May 5^th resp. May 6^th.

On April 25^th, Daniel Orth and Christoph Klöpping successfully defended their bachelor theses in front of staff members of EBC.

Philipp Theilmann, Denis Sepoetro and Stefan Mühlenfeld successfully presented and defended their final theses in front of staff members and student workers of EBC on April 16^th.

Reza Tavakoli sucessfully defended his master thesis on April, 8^th. Martin Renner's and Markus Simon's defense took place on April 9^th in front of staff members and student workers of EBC.

ACS and EBC presented the 2DSM concept on this years Hannover Trade Fair from April 7^th-11^th in Hall 16, Stand E27.

EBC member Michael Adolph joined the 14^th Enercity Dialog in Hannover. This years topic was "Energiewende in Germany - how to carry on?"

Starting April, 1^st Azeem Abdul, Philipp Piscke and Peter Remmen will join the workforce of the institute.

Paula Martínez Martín, David Arnolds and Pierre Guillier successfully defended their theses today.

After the third place last year the E.ON Energy Research Center indoor soccer team reached again third place at the RWTH Indoor Soccer Cup on Saturday, March 29^th.

Friedrich Schlieter successfully defended his master thesis on "Investigation of heat transfer in air-to-water heat exchangers for active and passive chilled beams".

From March 9^th to 14^th the EBC patricipated at the 16^th Hermann-Rietschel-Colloquium in Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal.

Members of the E.ON Energy Research Center gave two keynotes and displayed five posters on the symposium on energy optimized Building 2014 in Essen.

Five members of EBC joined the Modelica-Conference in Lund, Sweden, from March 10^th-12^th 2014. The Annex 60 Meeting that took place directly before the conference was joined by three institute members.

A building model adapted to the complexity of city district scale applications was developed based on national standards, The results were published in a peer-reviewed journal paper at Building and Enviroment.

The IBPSA-Germany and Austria conference BauSIM2014 took place from September 22 – 24, 2014 in Aachen (Germany).

Congress "Exzellente Fabriken planen + bauen" (Planning and Building of Excellent Factories) takes place from 2 - 3 July 2014 in Aachen (Germany).

EBC started a new research cooperation with Purdue University. EBC staff member Björn Flieger visited USA for three month for academic exchange.

A system that helps to reduce your energy bill by automatically detecting if you are present or not. This system was described in a recently published peer-reviewed journal paper at Energy & Buildings.

Annual meeting of the Deutscher Kälte- und Klimatechnischer Verein (DKV - German Society for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning) from 20 - 22 November 2013 in Hannover (Germany).

IECON 2013 takes place from 10 to 13 November 2013 in Vienna (Austria).

EBC receives the Internal Faculty Teaching Award of the faculty of Mechanical Engineerig

Clima 2013 takes place from 16 to 19 June 2013 in Prag (Czech Republic).