ERiC Lab

The ERiC Lab (Environmental Research in Climate) supplies researchers and students with a wide range of equipment in the field of Energy and Indoor Comfort, to be applied in education and research at every location. Employees and students of the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment are welcome with ideas and proposals for cooperation. External parties are requested to first make an appointment.

The ERiC Lab and its supervisors helps students, teachers, and researchers with assessing indoor comfort (lighting, thermal, acoustical and indoor air quality) and quantifying energy savings though a wide range of advanced equipment. The motto of the ERiC Lab is: “Energy saving should always lead to similar or better indoor comfort”.

The people and the equipment of the ERiC Lab are and were involved in, among others, the Urban Comfort Fieldlab, Climate arboreta, Windows to the Future, Massief Metselwerk, Converge and various PhD research projects. In terms of education, the ERiC Lab was and is involved in the technology courses of the Architecture bachelor, the Minor Archineering, the master course ‘Technoledge Health and Comfort’ and numerous graduation projects. 

The ERiC Lab has a large range of measurement equipment at its disposal, as well as experts that can help with planning and executing measurements. Examples include: 

• Making an inventory of the energy use of a building skin (thermometers, infrared camera, heat flow meters)
• Measuring the acoustical properties of a space and of partition walls (sound source, microphone, sound meters, reverberation time meters, impedance tube)
• Measuring visual comfort (luminance camera, lux meters, colour temperature meters, solarimeter)
• Measuring the indoor air quality of a room (CO2 meters, relative humidity meters, air velocity meters)