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2026 Seoul Shinmun Half Marathon
16 May 2026
BIST
Intelligent buildings, from the sensor to the city
What we do
A building is a deeply complex system, and we can describe its physical behaviour mathematically. BIST builds intelligent buildings out of that description — from building science, from informatics, and from the data a building throws off across its whole life. We work at every scale it happens on: the sensor, the equipment, the system, the building, the city, and everything passing between them.
Why it's urgent
The construction industry has almost no one whose job is to run a building intelligently, or to build the digital twin that would let it. That gap is the opportunity. We read AI not as a replacement for engineers but as agents working alongside them — which means somebody has to engineer those agents, and direct them, across the entire life of a building.
What we're building
We started in building environmental systems and are opening up building informatics as a field of its own. We imagine a construction industry with virtual environments, robots, AI agents, advanced sensing — and we're trying to build the intelligent buildings people have only seen in films. The people who leave here are the ones who will run it.
Work
No projects yet.
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2026 Teacher's Day
15 May 2026
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BIST paper-recommendation service seminar
27 April 2026
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LLM fine-tuning seminar
10 April 2026
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2026 spring futsal match
27 March 2026
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'Urban-scale shading simulation' research seminar
11 February 2026
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Registered as an NRF awarded research achievement
30 January 2026
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2025 year-end review
29 December 2025
Award
2025 Presidential Young Scientist Award
18 December 2025
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Paper seminar: intelligent cyber-physical systems & energy decarbonization
11 December 2025
Award
2025 SAREK Winter Annual Conference
28 November 2025
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Workshop: self-evolving energy management for intelligent ZEBs
21 November 2025
Award
2025 KIAEBS Autumn Conference
14 November 2025
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Seminar: AI-agent-based autonomous HVAC control
13 November 2025
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Seminar: AI-agent-based VR digital-twin framework
6 November 2025
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Paper seminar: cooling efficacy of urban trees
8 October 2025
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Paper seminar: global model of space heating & cooling demand
25 September 2025
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Undergraduate researcher seminar
29 August 2025
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2025 summer commencement
21 August 2025
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ASHRAE CRC 2025
15 August 2025
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2025 EnergyPlus seminar
3 July 2025
Award
2025 SAREK Summer Annual Conference
18 June 2025
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2025 Teacher's Day
15 May 2025
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2025 spring sports day
13 May 2025
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2025 winter graduation
25 February 2025
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Building-energy seminar & presentation
14 February 2025
Award
2024 Top 100 National R&D Achievements ceremony
23 January 2025
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2024 BIST year-end party
30 December 2024
Award
Selected: 2024 Top 100 National R&D Achievements
17 December 2024
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2nd Choi Sang-hong Future Talent Award Forum
6 December 2024
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Workshop: energy services for existing apartments
5 December 2024
Award
2024 SAREK Winter Annual Conference
29 November 2024
Award
2024 KIEAE Autumn Conference
20 November 2024
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2024 graduate thesis reviews
19 November 2024
Conference
2024 KIAEBS Autumn Conference
15 November 2024
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2024 autumn sports day
8 November 2024
Conference
International climate finance & industry conference
9 September 2024
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Existing apartment-complex field survey
27 August 2024
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2024 lab workshop
2 August 2024
Conference
2024 SAREK Summer Annual Conference
19 June 2024
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Lab expansion & remodeling
6 May 2024
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2024 ACRA
22 April 2024
Award
2024 Korean Solar Energy Society Spring Conference
18 April 2024
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Workshop: integrated building energy-data management
28 March 2024
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BIST alumni meetup
2 January 2024
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2023 BIST year-end party
26 December 2023
Award
2023 SAREK Winter Annual Conference
24 November 2023
Award
2023 Korean Solar Energy Society Autumn Conference
7 November 2023
Award
2023 SAREK Summer Annual Conference
21 June 2023
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2023 summer graduate thesis reviews
9 June 2023
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2022 BIST year-end party
29 December 2022
Award
2022 KIAEBS Winter Annual Conference
25 November 2022
Award
2022 SAREK Winter Annual Conference
18 November 2022
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Green Remodeling Alliance seminar
30 August 2022
Award
2022 SAREK Summer Annual Conference
22 June 2022
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Kick-off with BIST
1 April 2022