The IABP Ph.D. Summer School takes place from the 8th to the 10th of September (just before IBPC 2027) in Budapest.
A three-day exclusive PhD summer school, aiming to support and inspire early-career researchers, will accompany and precede CESBP 2025. Conference participants are welcome to attend this event for free. Completion will be awarded a certificate of participation. Please see the flyer for the lecturers and topics.
Organized by
Prof. Umberto Berardi, President of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP)
Assoc. Prof. Balázs Nagy, Chair of the 6th Central European Symposium on Building Physics (CESBP 2025)
You can register here.
VENUE
CESBP 2025 takes place in Budapest, capital of Hungary at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, which is the largest institute providing civil engineering university education in Hungary. Keeping with the tradition of excellence, today’s graduates exhibit a high quality of engineering craftsmanship and skills.
Programme
| Day | Time | Title | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8th SEPTEMBER | 09:00–10:30 | Introduction, research at BME | Assoc. Prof. Balázs Nagy & Assoc. Prof. Zsuzsa Szalay |
| 10:30–10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45–11:45 | Natural-based and ecological thermal insulation materials and measurement of hygrothermal properties | Prof. Jiri Zach | |
| 11:45–12:15 | BIM to hygrothermal simulations | Assoc. Prof. Balázs Nagy & Balázs Fűrtné | |
| 12:15–13:15 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:15–14:45 | Next generation of energy retrofitting materials and clusters of buildings | Prof. Mark Bomberg | |
| 14:45–15:00 | Break | ||
| 15:00–16:00 | On-site building physics and energy performance diagnostics | Assoc. Prof. Balázs Nagy & Prof. Daniel Gosztonyi | |
| 16:00–17:00 | Field lab works in groups | Assoc. Prof. Balázs Nagy & Prof. Daniel Gosztonyi | |
| From 17:00 | Sightseeing walk from BME to downtown Budapest; social evening | ||
| 9th SEPTEMBER | 09:00–10:30 | Moisture performance of buildings, materials and structures | Prof. Carsten Rode |
| 10:30–10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45–11:45 | Simulation workshop of heat and moisture transfer in COMSOL | Prof. Carsten Rode | |
| 11:45–12:15 | BIM to hygrothermal simulations | Assoc. Prof. Balázs Nagy & Balázs Fűrtné | |
| 12:15–13:15 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:15–14:45 | Hygrothermal behavior of wood polymers: from molecular scale to wood scale | Prof. Dominique Derome | |
| 14:45–15:00 | Break | ||
| 15:00–16:00 | BIM to BEM simulations (SAM) | Michal Dengusiak & Jakub Ziółkowski | |
| 16:00–17:00 | Natural ventilation: CFD modelling in architecture | Dr. Roberto Stasi | |
| 10th SEPTEMBER | 09:00–10:30 | Anatomy and process of dynamic energy performance simulations | Assoc. Prof. Parham A. Mirzaei |
| 10:30–10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45–11:45 | Urban microclimate modelling for building physics problems | Prof. Jan Carmeliet | |
| 11:45–12:15 | Lunch break | ||
| 12:15–13:15 | Daylighting in Architecture: Performance Metrics and Simulation Approaches for Improved Visual Comfort in Buildings | Assoc. Prof. Feride Şener Yılmaz | |
| 13:15–14:45 | Break | ||
| 14:45–15:45 | Dynamic simulation of human-building interaction | Assoc. Prof. Christiane Berger | |
| 15:45–16:45 | Innovative reflecting materials for solar modulation and control | Prof. Umberto Berardi | |
| 16:45 | Welcome drink of CESBP 2025 at BME |
Download the shareable IABP summer school flyer: here