+ 500
people
departmental Community
18
groups
research
41
laboratories
over 8,300 mq
€ 27 mln
value of projects
funded in 2025
Laboratory
RELAB is a laboratory of Politecnico di Milano serving industries in the field of building climate control and domestic hot water production. Its aim is to provide a wide range of testing services for product research and development, as well as for the assessment of thermal and acoustic performance in accordance with the latest standards, such as EN 14511, EN 14825, EN 16147, EN 1397, EN 12309, EN 16583, and EN 12102, and European regulations, including Ecodesign, EU Ecolabel, and ErP directives.
RELAB’s facilities enable the testing of various types of equipment for residential, commercial, and industrial applications, including heat pumps, liquid chillers, domestic hot water heat pumps, thermally driven absorption heat pumps, including direct-fired systems, and fan coil units. The laboratory is equipped to perform tests on air conditioners and static air-to-air heat exchangers.
RELAB is one of the few independent third-party laboratories in Italy accredited according to the quality standard for laboratory activities (EN ISO/IEC 17025). It enables companies to reduce the costs associated with qualified personnel and investments in facilities for conducting testing activities. It provides the scientific expertise of Politecnico di Milano to support experimentation and the development of innovative, highly efficient solutions.
Acoustics
Miscelab
Laboratory for the characterization of innovative working fluids as well as specific mixtures for use in direct and inverse thermodynamic cycles. The instrumentation is designed to support the refinement and calibration of Equations of State (EoS) for the thermodynamic properties of these fluids, with the goal of improving the accuracy of computational codes used to simulate the performance of thermodynamic cycles for specific applications.