Excellence through Research
By collaborating with industry with our innovative research students we are looking at innovative ways to revolutionize the next generation of building systems.
Building Technology and Systems
This focus area addresses the development, evaluation, and integration of building technologies that can improve occupant comfort and reduce energy usage and operating costs.
Indoor Environment and Human Perception
Understanding and modeling the interaction between occupants and their indoor environments is a major focus area for the CHPB.
High Performance Equipment
Faculty within the CHPB have a long history of research related to primary and secondary HVAC&R; equipment used in buildings
Its mission is to partner with industry to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate new technologies and analysis tools that can enable dramatic improvements in the performance of buildings in terms of energy, environmental impact, and occupant satisfaction and productivity.
CHPB is a multi-disciplinary effort involving researchers from Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, and Psychological Sciences. Companies from around the world have partnered with CHPB to develop the latest world-class technologies in high performance buildings. CHPB is headquartered at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at Purdue University, home to largest academic HVAC lab in the world.
šDIGITAL DAYTONA: The students of @LifeAtPurdue’s Sim Racing Club entered multiple cars into @iRacing’s virtual 24 Hours of Daytona event ā enduring a full day of wheel-to-wheel contact, exhaustion, and at the checkered flag, elation: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2026/purdue-sim-racing-spends-24-hours-behind-the-wheel-at-digital-daytona
The Excellence in Manufacturing and Operations Conference in June 2026 brings together leaders from industry, academia, and government to explore Manufacturing at the Crossroads of America. Submit a paper, register, and learn more about plenary speakers: https://engineering.purdue.edu/XMO-conference
To be the leading
university research
program for high
performance building
technology development
and assessment.
Davide Ziviani, Co-Director CHPB
