Dr. Monica Paciuk

Research Subjects

  • User Requirements and Building Performance:  Users’ requirements, environmental comfort and safety, performance concept in building, populations with special requirements, evaluation of built environments, environmental quality.
     

  • Energy Use in Buildings:  Thermal performance of buildings, energy conservation, efficiency of heating/cooling patterns, condensation and mould growth problems.
     

  • Building and Urban Climatology:  Indoor air quality, effects of building and urban design, wind environment around buildings, design criteria for high-rise buildings.

 

Professional Activities

 

  • Member, EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association).
     

  • Member, IAPS (International Association for the Study of People and their Physical Surroundings).
     

  • Member, CIB/TG19 (Designing for the Ageing Society).
     

  • Member, Organizing and Advisory Committee, 3rd International Symposium on “Applications of the Performance Concept in Building”, Tel Aviv, December 9-12, 1996.
     

  • Member, CIB Thematic Network – PeBBu – Performance Based Building, EC 5th Framework.
     

  • Member, International Advisory Committee, Healthy Buildings 2006, Lisboa, Portugal.