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Researchers in the Building Technology & Urban Systems Division (BTUS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory develop data and technologies that increase energy efficiency and improve the health, safety and comfort of building occupants, in the United States and worldwide.

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We have been leaders for decades in developing energy-efficient windows, improving indoor air quality, coming up with new ideas to fix the nation's electricity grid, and so much more.

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1980

Bryan, Harvey J, and Robert D Clear."A Procedure for Calculating Interior Daylight Ilumination."5th National Passive Solar Conference (1980).

Speltz, J, and Philip Haves."The Thermal Benefits and Cost Effectiveness of Earth Berming."5th National Passive Solar Conference 5.1 (1980).

Lampert, Carl M."Thin Film Electrochromic Materials for Energy Efficient Windows." (1980).

Kohler, Thomas P."Electronic Screw-In Ballast and Improved Circline Lamp Phase I: Final Report." (1980).

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Cost Effectiveness of Visibility-Based Design Procedures for General Office Lighting."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Technical Conference (1980).

Haves, Philip, D Bently, and Gene Clark."Heat Transfer in Passively Cooled Buildings."ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference (1980).

Weidt, John L, and Jenny Weidt."Air Leakage of Newly Installed Residential Windows." (1980).

Bryan, Harvey J, and Robert D Clear."Calculating Interior Daylight Illumination with a Programmable Hand Calculator."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 07/1981 (1980) 219-227.

Verderber, Rudolph R, and Oliver C Morse."Cost Effectiveness of Long Life Incandescent Lamps and Energy Buttons."Electrical Construction and Maintenance 80 (1980).

King, William J."High Performance Solar Control Windows, Final Report." (1980).

Rubinstein, Francis M, and Rudolph R Verderber."Lighting Controls: Survey of the Potential Market."Energy 8.6 (1980) 433-449.

Rubin, Michael D, Richard Creswick, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Transparent Heat Mirrors for Windows: Thermal Performance."5th National Passive Solar Conference (1980) 990-994.

1979

Bryan, Harvey J."A Simplified Procedure for Calculating the Effects of Daylight from Clear Skies."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Technical Conference (1979).

Haves, Philip."One Dimensional Representations of the Heat Flow Beneath a Building."US DOE Solar Energy Storage Options Conference (1979).

Akbari, Hashem, and Tom R Borgers."Free convective laminar flow within the trombe wall channel."Solar Energy 22.2 (1979) 165-174. DOI

Goldstein, David B, and Metin Lokmanhekim."A Simple Method for Computing the Dynamic Response of Passive Solar Buildings to Design Weather Conditions."Alternative Energy Sources II (1979).

Selkowitz, Stephen E, Michael D Rubin, and Richard Creswick."Average Transmittance Factors for Multiple Glazed Window Systems."4th National Passive Solar Conference (1979) 383-386.

Lampert, Carl M."Coatings for Enhanced Photothermal Energy Collection II: Non-Selective and Energy Control Films."Solar Energy Materials 2 (1979).

Selkowitz, Stephen E."Daylighting and Passive Solar Buildings."3rd National Passive Solar Conference (1979) 271-281.

Goldstein, David B, Metin Lokmanhekim, and Robert D Clear."Design Calculations for Passive Solar Buildings by a Programmable Hand Calculator." (1979).

Weidt, John L, Jenny Weidt, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Field Air Leakage of Newly Installed Residential Windows."ASHRAE Transactions 85.1 (1979) 149-159.

Goldstein, David B."Modeling Passive Solar Buildings with Hand Calculations."3rd National Passive Solar Conference (1979) 164-169.

Selkowitz, Stephen E, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Thermal Performance of Managed Window Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 85 (1979).

Selkowitz, Stephen E."Transparent Heat Mirrors for Passive Solar Heating Applications."Passive Systems 78 (1979) 124-132.

1978

Selkowitz, Stephen E."Effective Daylighting in Buildings."Lighting Design + Application (1978) 6-8, 43-47.