Updated on 8 August 2025
Intelligent Human-Buildings Interactions lab (IHBI), Umeå University, Sweden
About
The Intelligent Human-Buildings Interaction (IHBI) Lab at Umeå University offers facilities that combine immersive virtual environments with a state-of-the-art climate chamber. This infrastructure enables alternative design and renovation solutions to be tested under controlled, repeatable conditions, including simulations of climate stressors and extreme events (e.g., heatwaves). It also supports measurement of occupants’ behavioural, perceptual, and physiological responses using advanced sensing and biometrics, including EEG. Building on this experimental evidence, IHBI can translate lived experience into actionable design and governance guidance for inclusive, health- and well-being–oriented transformation and thermal comfort solutions.
Below calls are relevant to our lab
NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03: Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighbourhoods to support their health and well-being
NEB-2026-01-REGEN-01: Sustainable, inclusive, affordable and beautiful solutions for thermal comfort in buildings
NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02: Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
Topic
- CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
- 15mC topic 2 – Reimagining parking – transforming urban parking policies
- PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
- PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets
- PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
Open for Partnerships/Collaborations
- Looking to join a project
- CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
- PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies
- CUE topic 2 – Sustainable tourism – circular benefits and challenges
- 15mC topic 3 – Mobility policymaking in context of radical contestation
- 15mC topic 2 – Reimagining parking – transforming urban parking policies
- CUE topic 3 – Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity
- PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
- 15mC topic 1 – Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience
- PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets
Berkay Salman
Senior Architect / EU Projects Coordinator / UNESCO World Heritage Site Coordinator at Osmangazi Municipality / Türkiye
Bursa, Türkiye
Project cooperation
Platform for Positive Energy Districts
- Looking to join a project
- PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies
- PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
- PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets
Carmina Bocanegra
Senior Innovation Expert at Elliot Cloud
Malaga, Spain
Project cooperation
- Looking to join a project
- CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
- PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies
- CUE topic 2 – Sustainable tourism – circular benefits and challenges
- 15mC topic 3 – Mobility policymaking in context of radical contestation
- 15mC topic 2 – Reimagining parking – transforming urban parking policies
- CUE topic 3 – Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity
- PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
- 15mC topic 1 – Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience
- PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets
Carlo Andrea Biraghi
Associate Director @ IMM DesignLab, Politecnico di Milano at IMMdesignlab - Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy