We held the farewell party for Mr. Nakamura who will be retired next month.
He has been working as a Technical officer for 41years at our Lab.
We appreciate his big support and everything he did.
Best wishes for his happiness and health.

The Master's thesis presentation thesis presentation was held on February 6th.

Kirina Komuro
[Improvement of long-term performance of VIPs and performance verification of VIPs in a building]

Ying Zha
[Development of optimal design and operation method of hybrid ground source heat pump system and research on its operation]

Yutaka Shoji
[Fast Calculation Method for Transient Temperature of Ground Heat Exchangers Field with Groundwater Flow]

The graduation thesis presentation was held on February 5th.

Yuma Akeyama
“Long-term prediction of performances of ground source heat pump systems under climate change and urbanization”

Mitsuki Izawa
“Desalination device based on adsorption process applying natural mesoporous material”

Keisuke Mizutani
“Investigation on next generation district heating and cooling system applying ground thermal energy and heat recovery”

Taichi Kamada
“Investigation on low-cost net-zero energy houses by applying vacuum insulation panels and ground source heat pump systems”

Zeng Yvmin
“Prediction of solar radiation intensity using satellite image analysis based on machine-learning”

Dec. 25 (Wed), We held laboratory year-end party after mid-term presentation of graduation thesis and master's thesis.
Job well done this year. Have a wonderful new year!!

28th Sanitary Engineering Symposium was held at Hokkaido University from Oct.31st to Nov.1st.
All students from our laboratory attended the symposium.
Prof.Nagano had presentation of STSI Program and Japan-India Sustainable Development Consortium.

Engineering Innovation Forum/2019 was held at Hokkaido University on September 27th.

We held a laboratory trip From August 9th to 10th in Asahikwa.
We had BBQ dinner and went to Asahikawa Museum, Furano Winery and Campana Rokkatei.

The 11th ISHVAC2019 was held from July 12 to 15,2019 in Harbin, China, hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology.
Professor Nagano, Associate Professor Katsura, Assistant Professor Sakata and 6 students attended the meeting from Nagano laboratory.

Special Lecture of Graduate School, Hokkaido University, Japan in Pusan National University, South Korea.
It was held from 1st to 4th July 2019.
Professor Nagano, Associate Professor Katsura, Assistant Professor Sakata and 12 students attended the lecture from Nagano laboratory.

We had the meeting with Prof. Anna-Karin Axelsson and Prof. Saim Memon from LSBU from June 18th to 21st. It was held on the seminar on 21st.
In this evening we also had lab's BBQ party with them.