BETA Lab

Building Engineering Technology with Advanced materials Lab.

Welcome to
BETA Lab!

We develop technologies based on advanced building materials that address the energy, environmental and fire-safety challenges of buildings.

Research Areas

Solving energy and environmental challenges with advanced building materials

Enhanced Building Energy Performance

Enhanced Building Energy Performance

Maximizing building energy efficiency by combining thermal-storage and insulation technologies based on PCM and carbon nanomaterials with passive design.

  • PCM
  • Carbon Nanomaterials
  • Thermal Storage
  • Insulation
  • Passive Building
Eco-friendly & Sustainable

Eco-friendly & Sustainable

Functional building materials that reduce environmental impact and porous materials that mitigate indoor pollutants.

  • Functional Materials
  • Porous Materials
  • Pollutant Mitigation
  • Biochar
  • Upcycling
Flame-retardant & Fire-resistant

Flame-retardant & Fire-resistant

Flame-retardant materials and fire-safety performance technologies that make buildings safer and more reliable in a fire.

  • Flame Retardant
  • Fire Safety
  • Sandwich Panel
  • Toxicity
  • Fire Test
Recruiting

BETA Lab is recruiting graduate students and undergraduate researchers!

If you study architecture/architectural engineering, civil, energy, materials or safety engineering and are interested in building energy performance, fire safety or carbon reduction with building materials, e-mail us anytime.

How to apply
Publication

Recent Publications

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  1. Thermal performance evaluation and building energy saving effect of high performance floor heating system using micro-encapsulated PCM

    Keonwoo Park, Sangwoo Han, Seunghwan Wi*

    Applied Thermal Engineering, 306, 133063 (2026-10)

  2. Evaluation and Enhancement of an Indoor Air Quality Prediction Model for Infant Care Facilities Using Automated Relearning

    Kichul Kim, Jiwoong Kim, Yun Gyu Lee, Seunghwan Wi, Sumin Kim*

    Indoor Air, 2025(1), 9375744 (2025-01)

  3. Evaluation of heterogeneous core sandwich panels for energy efficiency and fire safety in warehouse buildings

    Young Uk Kim, Sungwoong Yang, Seunghwan Wi, Sumin Kim*

    Applied Thermal Engineering, 249, 123455 (2024-07)

  4. Novel exterior insulation finishing: Enhancing building energy efficiency and flameretardancy through thermal storage and fire propagation prevention

    Seunghwan Wi, Young Uk Kim, Seong Jin Chang, Umberto Berardi, Sumin Kim*

    Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 59, 104541 (2024-07)