Research and development activities in the field of human comfort and health are

• Development of human thermophysiological models with various degrees of details.

• Numerical and experimental research of thermal comfort in road vehicle cabins and small aircraft cabins.

• Determination of evaporative resistance and thermal insulation of clothing (using a thermal manikin).

• Human thermal comfort in protective garments (chemical protective garments, firefighter protective clothing, etc.).

• Development of sensors of equivalent homogenous temperature.

• Development of realistic airway models – both physical (3D printed) and digital replicas of human airways, accounting for variations across genders and ages (male, female, child).

• Targeted aerosol delivery – investigation of optimal delivery of inhaled aerosols for pharmaceutical and medical applications. This involves understanding how particle properties, airway geometry, and breathing patterns influence deposition in targeted lung regions.

Further information is available on the websites of individual laboratories:

• Climate chamber
  The climatic chamber is designed for testing technical devices in various weather conditions including extreme heat and cold. Environmental conditions there are defined exactly, which allows to repeatedly compare behavior of the tested technical devices. The climatic tests can prove the endurance, reliability and functionality of these devices. The chamber allows to perform both stationary and transient climatic tests which simulate real weather conditions in complex way. Namely, it simulates the effect temperature, humidity and solar global radiation. More information here.
  
• Laboratory of thermal comfort
  The laboratory or its team deals with the research and development in the field of air-conditioning systems that are employed to adjust indoor environment quality of vehicle cabins or buildings; it also includes testing the system effect on thermal comfort. The main demand today is development and design of such air-conditioning systems that provide optimum thermal comfort at the lowest energy and operating costs. More information here.
• Experimental passive family house
  The idea of ​​building an experimental house for ventilation research arose in connection with the involvement of the Department of Thermomechanics and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology in the project of the 5th EU Framework Program called RESHYVENT (RESidential HYbrid VENTilation). The experimental house was originally intended only to study hybrid ventilation in the conditions of the Czech Republic. However, the idea of ​​building a simple building that would be more of a laboratory than a residential house was soon abandoned. Subsequently, a new plan was formulated, namely to build a demonstration building the size of a family house, which with its thermal technical properties would significantly exceed the requirements of applicable standards and be equipped with a modern hybrid ventilation system and other energy saving systems for heating and ventilation. The main idea of ​​the new plan was for the experimental house to serve the general professional and lay public as a demonstration project for the implementation of controlled ventilation in the conditions of the Czech Republic. More information here.