This is the homepage of Pieter de Wilde, dedicated to building performance.

Pieter is full professor at LTH, Devision of Energy and Building Design, Lund, Sweden.

He also is visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Architecture, Glasgow, UK.

Pieter was educated at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he did his BSc, MSc and PhD. He was Postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Previously he worked at TNO Building and Construction Research (Delft, the Netherlands) and the University of Plymouth (Devon, UK).

The main goal of all of Pieter's research is to contribute to Better Buildings. Originally the focus was particularly on energy efficient buildings, but over the years this has expanded to a much broader range of performance aspects. One of the key notions stemming from a career of research of work on the subject is that buildings are complex and need to do many things, such as being healthy, well-lit, safe. A conservative estimate is that there are around 80 aspects to consider.

To achieve Better Buildings, we need to improve building design and engineering, improve the construction as well as the facility management of buildings, and work on better processes and tools. As the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) field is an area of applied science, it is important that academics working in this domain engage with industry partners and have a connection with what happens in practice.