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Building Environment (Aya Hagishima) Lab
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A lab studying energy saving and decarbonization in cities and buildings, and the living environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring energy saving in cities and buildings, and comfortable living environments.
Professor Aya Hagishima's lab conducts research with the main goals of energy saving and decarbonization in cities and buildings, and of creating healthy and comfortable living environments.
Many of its themes focus on regions whose climate and natural conditions differ greatly from Japan's, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Mongolia.
The lab places importance on gaining a deep understanding of the society and culture of each target region through field surveys on site.
Its research fields are urban environment and building environmental engineering, and urban climatology.
Key terms
- Urban heat island
- A phenomenon in which temperatures in the center of a city become higher than in the surrounding areas.
- Wind engineering
- A field that studies airflow around buildings and city areas, and its effects.
- Heat load
- The amount of heat that must be removed or added, by cooling or heating, to keep a room at a comfortable temperature.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's main goals are energy saving and decarbonization in cities and buildings, and the creation of healthy and comfortable living environments. Its work ranges from analyzing residential electricity consumption data to field surveys across Asia and urban climate.
*Illustrative imageAnalysis of residential electricity consumption data
The lab statistically analyzes large amounts of data on residential electricity consumption. The research keywords are demand forecasting, energy saving, and occupant behavior.
*Illustrative imageAir conditioning and electricity consumption in homes in emerging tropical countries
The lab investigates the time-series characteristics of air conditioning use and electricity consumption behavior in homes in emerging countries in the tropics. The keywords are occupant behavior, building heat load calculation, and thermal sensation indoors.
*Illustrative imageField research on living environments across Asia
The lab conducts on-site surveys aiming at sustainable and healthy living environments suited to the various regions of Asia. In Mongolia, it works on improving the insulation of traditional mobile dwellings.
*Illustrative imageUrban climate and the heat island effect
Urban climate is one of the lab's research fields, and its research keywords include the heat island effect and wind engineering. The lab addresses urban environments from the standpoint of building environmental engineering.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorAya Hagishima
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) in the snow ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Analysis of residential electricity consumption data: “Logarex smart household electricity meter build year 2023” RobbieIanMorrison / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Air conditioning and electricity consumption in homes in emerging tropical countries: “McQuay AIR CONDITIONING AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT” Dinkun Chen / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Field research on living environments across Asia: “Zoobentos sampling Krippenbach” Panek / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban climate and the heat island effect: “Thermal Image Rapid City, SD. BLACK HILLS THERMAL IMAGING” Black Hills Thermal Imaging / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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