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2019 ASHRAE Winter Conference

January 12, 2019

IEL is presenting two seminar talks at the 2019 ASHRAE Winter conference in Atlanta. PhD student Jose, is presenting: Sunday, January 13, Read more

Undergraduate research opportunities on EUREKA

December 19, 2018

Are you interested in smart buildings and smart cities? Bridging data science with building science? We have several awesome projects going on for Read more

Megan defends her MS thesis

December 12, 2018

Our awesome masters student Megan defended her thesis last week with a presentation at the UT Facilities Services. For her thesis in Sustainable Read more

Call for Papers: CISBAT 2019

November 25, 2018

CISBAT 2019 – International Scientific Conference 4-6 September 2019, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Climate Resilient Cities - Energy Efficiency & Read more

Apples or Oranges? New benchmarking paper published in Applied Energy

January 13, 2019

We collected a building energy dataset (2 years, hourly data) of unprecedented size (3829 buildings) and variety (75 programs). And using machine Read more

Fusing TensorFlow with CitySim for Smart Cities

December 2, 2018

The journal Sustainable Cities and Society has published our paper Fusing TensorFlow with building energy simulation for intelligent energy management Read more

Review paper published & selected for special section in APEN

November 19, 2018

Our paper Reinforcement learning for demand response: A review of algorithms and modeling techniques led by IEL's PhD student Jose has been published Read more

IEL Gallery

Intelligent Environments Laboratory, Fall 2016

Intelligent Environments Laboratory, Fall 2017

June, addressing the Annex 79 crowd in Ottawa, 2018

Thomas takes 2nd price in the UT undergraduate research competition in 2017!

June, speaking at IBPC, 2018

Jose and June at the Workshop for Smart Buildings in Ottawa, 2017

Thomas talking about Bluetooth for occupancy detection at IBPSA-USA, 2018

Dr Nagy, speaking at ASHRAE 2018 in Houston

Dr Felkner (School of Architecture) and Dr Gilbert (Chair Dept. CAEE) discuss a successful teaching collaboration.

Dean Addington (School of Architecture) at the critiques for our Integrated Design project, Fall 2017

Students are ready to #HookEm

Intelligent Environments Laboratory — Fall 2018

Jose during his award winning talk at CISBAT, Lausanne, 2017

Megan defends her MS thesis with a presentation at the UT Facilities — Fall 2018

Megan, Roel and Emmanuel explain their winning design for a Sustainable doghouse to Dr Clayton (r) and Jim Walker (rr)

Jose rocking the stage at the 2019 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Atlanta

The Intelligent Environments Laboratory (IEL), led by Prof. Zoltán Nagy, is an interdisciplinary research group within the Building Energy & Environments (BEE) and Sustainable Systems (SuS) Programs of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) in the Cockrell School of Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin.

The aim of our research is to rethink the built environment and define Smart Buildings and Cities as spaces that adapt to their occupants and reduce their energy consumption.

We combine data science with building science and apply machine learning to the building and urban scale

Take a look at our projects !

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