The School of Building Services Science and Engineering was established in 2018. It offers three undergraduate programs: Built Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Building Electricity and Intelligence, and Energy Storage Science and Engineering. The first two programs are recognized among the first group of national first-class undergraduate programs. The school currently enrolls 1,635 full-time students, including 1,149 undergraduates, 384 master's students, and 102 doctoral students, reflecting a well-established talent cultivation system that integrates undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral education..Since its establishment, the school has fully leveraged the synergistic strengths of its disciplines, actively exploring deep interdisciplinary innovation among fields such as "Built Environment," "Intelligent Control," and "Energy and Power." It hosts the national key cultivation and provincial key discipline of "Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Engineering" (HVAC), as well as a doctoral program in the HVAC secondary discipline, master's programs in HVAC and Intelligent Building, and a first-level master's program in "Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics"
The school currently has 88 faculty and staff members, including 67 full-time teachers. Among them, 38 hold associate professor or higher professional titles, and 92.5% possess doctoral degrees. The faculty includes one "National Huang Danian-style Teacher Team" and nearly 50 recipients of national-level talent titles.
For a long time, the disciplines and specialties have focused on major national strategic goals such as Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality, Artificial Intelligence, and New Quality Productive Forces in scientific research, forming four distinctive research teams and directions: The "Underground Space Environment Control Team" has long conducted research on low-carbon construction of normal environments and life safety assurance in disaster-affected environments for underground spaces. Their achievements have helped solve environmental challenges in large underground and above-ground spaces such as offshore floating nuclear power plants, high-speed rail stations, airport terminals, and the Ecuador CCS Hydropower Station, overcoming technical hurdles in environmental control for super-large and complex cavern groups. The "Industrial Building Environment and Energy Conservation Team" is dedicated to research on efficient treatment of strong pollution sources and improvement of environmental quality in large spaces. Their results have been applied in over 70 demonstration projects across more than 10 industries in 22 provinces, with technology exported to Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner countries, directly or indirectly creating employment for over 30 million people. The "Solar Building and Built Environment Team" concentrates on sustainable development and the improvement of human settlements. They conduct innovative research in areas such as low-carbon solar centralized heating for western towns, construction of livable built environments in extreme climate zones, and development of new low-carbon building materials and their physical property parameter systems. They have completed over 20 ultra-low energy consumption building and solar energy utilization demonstration projects in extreme climate zones like the western plateau and South China Sea islands and reefs. The "Building Intelligent Information Technology Team" is committed to solving problems related to the control optimization and smart operation and maintenance of building equipment, built environments, and energy systems. Aiming for green, healthy, intelligent, and low-carbon goals, the team focuses on research in artificial intelligence, computer control, and cloud-edge-end system optimization and integration technologies. They develop smart operation and maintenance monitoring platforms based on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), enabling the monitoring, control, and optimization of buildings, communities, and districts from the perspectives of intelligence, energy efficiency, and low-carbon development, providing talent and technical support for high-quality development of emerging industries like smart (resilient) cities and intelligent buildings.
In the past five years, the school has undertaken 15 key national-level research projects, published more than 800 high-level academic papers, obtained 184 authorized invention patents, and received 2 National Technological Invention Awards, 1 National Science and Technology Progress Award, and 28 provincial and ministerial-level awards.
The school closely aligns with its "Internationalization" development goal, continuously expanding and deepening international exchanges and cooperation with universities in Belt and Road Initiative partner countries. It has established long-term partnerships with nearly ten prestigious foreign universities, including the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Aalto University (Finland), and Umeå University (Sweden). The school has taken the lead in establishing two international academic organizations: the International Society for Underground Space Environment and the China-Nordic International Joint Research Center for Indoor Environment and Energy. It has also secured approval for three provincial and ministerial-level international cooperation platforms, including the Ministry of Education Joint International Research Laboratory of Low-Carbon Built Environment.
In the future, the school will continue to uphold the development philosophy of being "Innovative, Learning-Oriented, Harmonious, and Internationalized." Guided by major national strategic needs, driven by interdisciplinary integration, and with cultivating top-tier innovative talents at its core, the school will persistently optimize its disciplinary layout, strengthen scientific research and technological innovation, and deepen international cooperation. It strives to achieve greater breakthroughs in basic research, technological innovation, and engineering applications, contributing innovative strength to the global construction of low-carbon, intelligent, and energy-efficient artificial environments.