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Building Environment and Building Services Lab (Tanaka Lab)
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An energy management lab that aims to make buildings both comfortable and energy efficient.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward buildings that are both comfortable and energy efficient.
The Tanaka Lab studies ways to save energy and reduce environmental impact in cities and buildings.
It also aims to support people's quality of life and to improve health, comfort, and intellectual productivity.
Centering on air-conditioning systems, the lab works on developing technologies that contribute to ZEB, simulation, and energy management methods that use AI.
Key terms
- ZEB (net-zero energy building)
- A building that uses energy saving and renewable energy to bring its annual energy use close to net zero
- Energy management
- Measuring and analyzing the energy used in a building or region and managing it so that it is used without waste
- Heat pump
- A device that draws up and transfers heat from air, water, and other sources to provide heating, cooling, and hot water with little electricity
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the Nagoya University Academic Encouragement Award
Prof. Tanaka received two Technology Promotion Awards from the SHASE Promotion Awards of the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
A doctoral student received the Young Researcher Outstanding Presentation Award at the Academic Lectures of the Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting
A master's student received the Grand Prize at the Building Services Engineer Day Commemorative Student Competition
Prof. Tanaka received the Engineering Encouragement Special Award from the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The main research theme is energy management in cities and buildings. The lab works on developing and evaluating technologies for ZEB, centered on air-conditioning systems; developing simulation models; managing indoor environments and energy; and methods of remote operation and AI-based automation for proper operation.
*Illustrative imageUsing Heat from Towns and Homes Without Waste
As a member of a hub in JST's COI-NEXT program (Program for Forming Hubs for Co-creation), the lab studies future heat-use energy systems, with the theme of recovering heat from towns and households without waste and putting it to effective use.
*Illustrative imageHeating and Cooling Using Heat from Renewable Energy
In a NEDO project, the lab installed heat pump systems that use renewable energy such as solar heat as the heat source, and conducted demonstration tests of low-cost, high-efficiency equipment and systems that can be used for heating, cooling, and hot water supply.
MembersFaculty
The Tanaka Lab's members are faculty, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHideki Tanaka
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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: “Senate Energy-efficient Lighting ( )” USCapitol / Public domain (cropped)
- Using Heat from Towns and Homes Without Waste: “Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger of Chiller” Saud / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Heating and Cooling Using Heat from Renewable Energy: “Solar vacuum tube collectors Thessaloniki” Greensolarvacuum / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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