Holger Wallbaum
Full Professor, Vice-Head of Department and Vice-Dean for Research
Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology, Sustainable Building
Holger is a Full Professor in sustainable building at the Division of Building Technology, research group Sustainable Building, and in the Area of advance Building Futures. Holger works within sustainable building on concepts, tools and strategies to enhance the sustainability performance of construction materials, building products, buildings as well as entire cities.
His main research interests are related to ecological and economic life cycle assessment of construction materials, buildings and infrastructures, sustainability assessment tools for buildings, social-cultural and climate adapted design concepts, the refurbishment of the building stock as well as dynamic building stock modeling and its visualization.
Interests
- Sustainable Development
- Life cycle assessment
- Building Stock Modeling
Education
PhD in Architecture, 2002
University of Hanover, Germany
Diploma studies Safety Engineering, major Environmental engineering, 1998
Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany
Maîtrise Gestion de Risques, 1995
Université de Mulhouse, France
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- Sanjay has successfully defended his PhD
- Interview with Sanjay before his PhD Defence
- Xinyue has defended her licentiate thesis
- EqualHouse
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- Physical CREATE project meeting in Gothenburg
- Very active contribution of Chalmers researchers at the SBE22 conference in Delft
- BUILD UP board of Ambassadors physical meeting in Brussels
- Machine learning applied to Material Flow Analysis - Journal of Industrial ecology spotlight
- CREATE
- Licentiate presentation of Sanjay Somanath - Towards digitalising Urban Social Sustainability
- Users’ impact on domestic energy consumption
- A Framework for User Centric LCA Tool Development for Early Planning Stages of Buildings
- Machine learning-based stocks and flows modeling of road infrastructure
- REDAP
- BOM250 - Life cycle engineering
- Energy performance and occupant satisfaction in green-certified office buildings
- Occupant well-being and productivity in sustainable office buildings
- How Does Office Design Support Employees’ Health? A Case Study on the Relationships among Employees’ Perceptions of the Office Environment, Their Sense of Coherence and Office Design
- Theory of Attractive Quality: Occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality at workplaces
- Bridging the gap between assessment and action: recommendations for the effective use of LCA in the building process
- Comparing Different PV Module Types and Brands Under Working Conditions in the United Kingdom
- Energy Efficiency Measures and Data Needs. The Case of the European Building Portfolio Owners
- Estimating the Ground Temperature Around Energy Piles Using Artificial Neural Networks
- Improving indoor environmental quality (IEQ) for occupant health and well-being: A case study of Swedish office building
- Life cycle assessment of winter road maintenance
- Numerical and real-life assessment of the moisture safety of CLT structure with PIR insulation composite under the Swedish climate
- Regionalized environmental impacts of construction machinery
- Scoping review of health in office design approaches
- Spatiotemporal characteristics of residential material stocks and flows in urban, commuter, and rural settlements
- The influence of indoor environmental quality and workspace design on employees’ health and work performance
- The relation between social life cycle assessment and green building certification systems
- Transforming cities and health: policy, action, and meaning
- Ways to get work done: a review and systematisation of simplification practices in the LCA literature
- A review of environmental impacts of winter road maintenance
- A service-life cycle approach to maintenance and energy retrofit planning for building portfolios
- A Swedish comment on ‘review: the availability of life-cycle studies in Sweden’
- CREATE: A toolbox to develop, implement and monitor advanced energy and climate goals and strategies
- Estimation of Norwegian Asphalt Surfacing Lifetimes Using Survival Analysis Coupled with Road Spatial Data
- Explorative life-cycle assessment of renovating existing urban housing-stocks
- Exploring Office Design Approaches in Relation to Health and Wellbeing: A Scoping Review
- Health & wellbeing in offices - A study of literature on the Nordic perspective
- How adding a battery to a grid-connected photovoltaic system can increase its economic performance: A comparison of different scenarios
- Identify Optimal Renovation Packages for Residential Buildings: A State-of-the-Art Computational Model
- Life Cycle Management of Infrastructures
- Nonwoven geotextile scour protection at offshore wind parks, application and life cycle assessment
- Prioritizing deep renovation for housing portfolios
- Road Planning and Route Alignment Selection Criteria in the Norwegian Context
- Skatteväxla från arbete till mark effektivare än en plastpåseskatt
- Spatial analysis of urban material stock with clustering algorithms: A Northern European case study
- SSO User Insight Toolbox for employees’ health, well-being and productivity
- Building Inventory and Refurbishment Scenario Database Development for Switzerland
- Determining material suitability for Low-Rise housing in the Philippines: Physical and mechanical properties of the bamboo species Bambusa blumeana
- Investigation of regional conditions and sustainability indicators for sustainable product development of building materials
- Metod för omställning av urbana byggnadsbestånd
- Research Roadmap for Intelligent and Responsive Buildings
- Services supporting users: The case of energy services to end-users
- Stakeholder Specific Multi-Scale Spatial Representation of Urban Building-Stocks
- Superisoleringsmaterial i byggnader: Rekommendationer från IEA EBC Annex 65
- Sustainability review of Norwegian road construction and infrastructure
- Tank-to-wheel emissions from articulated steered wheel loaders
- Trade-Off between the Social and Environmental Performance of Green Concrete: The Case of 6 Countries
- A Multidimensional Optimization Approach to Refurbishment Design on a Multi-Building Scale
- Environmental performance of social housing in emerging economies: life cycle assessment of conventional and alternative construction methods in the Philippines
- Humid Wall: Review on Causes and Solutions
- Hur mycket energi kan vi spara i våra flerbostadshus? Byggnadsbeståndsmodellering för anpassade renoveringar av flerbostadshus.
- Renovation Needs and Potential for Improved Energy Performance Depending on Ownership – A Location Based Study of Multi-Family Building Stocks in an Urban Context
- The effect of different working parameters on the optimal size of a battery for grid-connected PV systems
- The trends of hourly carbon emission factors in Germany and investigation on relevant consumption patterns for its application
- A differentiated description of building-stocks for a georeferenced urban bottom-up building-stock model
- Assessments of indoor environmental quality on occupant satisfaction and physical parameters in office buildings
- Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Road Pavements: Comparing the Quality and Point of Application of Existing Software Tools on the basis of a Norwegian Case Study
- Factors for Eco-Efficiency Improvement of Thermal Insulation Materials
- Feasibility of solar energy in south sweden: artificial neural network modeling
- Fire resistance for low-rise housing in the tropics: Test results for bamboo-based construction systems
- Hygrothermal Design of a Prefabricated Wooden Facade Module for School Building Renovation in Sweden
- Hygrothermal performance of a vapor-open envelope for subtropical climate, field test and model validation
- On the usefulness of a cost-performance indicator curve at the strategic level for consideration of energy efficiency measures for building portfolios
- Socio-economic impact of renovation and energy retrofitting of the Gothenburg building stock
- Sustainability Assessment of Infrastructure Elements with Integrated Energy Harvesting Technologies
- Sustainability of Social Housing in Asia: A Holistic Multi-Perspective Development Process for Bamboo-Based Construction in the Philippines
- A new systemic approach to improve the sustainability performance of office buildings in the early design stage
- A review of Swedish residential building stock research
- Assessing Transport Infrastructure Sustainability - Literature Review of Practices in Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructures with the Identification of Issues and Knowledge Gaps
- Environmental impact of buildings - what matters?
- Environmental product declarations entering the building sector: critical reflections based on 5 to 10 years experience in different European countries
- Handling data uncertainties when using Swedish energy performance certificate data to describe energy usage in the building stock
- Indoor air conditions in offices with different ventilation regimes - results from the QSB project (quality of sustainable buildings)
- Indoor Comfort Evaluation of a Sustainable Wooden House with a Novel Vapor-open Envelope System in Subtropical Climate
- Towards Sustainable highways, from its foundation
- Umgebungsbedingungen in Büros in Abhängigkeit von der Lüftung - Auswertungen aus dem Projekt „Qualität von Nachhaltigen Bürogebäuden“
- Utilization of Multi-Criteria Assessment on Building Thermal Insulation Materials