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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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2002

Rubinstein, Francis M, Pete Pettler, and Judy D Jennings."Dimming Every Light Cheaply."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 11 (2002).

Siegel, Jeffrey A, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Dirty air conditioners: Energy implications of coil fouling."Proceedings of the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 18-12, 2002 (2002).

Tribble, Alison, Kate Offringa, Bill Prindle, Dariush K Arasteh, Jay Zarnikau, Arlene Stewart, and Ken Nittler."Energy Efficient Windows in the Southern Residential Windows Market."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Field Testing of Component-Level Model-Based Fault Detection Methods for Mixing Boxes and VAV Fan Systems."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Payne, Christopher T, Anthony Radspieler Jr, and Jack Payne."Hurdling barriers through market uncertainty: Case studies in innovative technology adoption."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Weale, John, Peter Rumsey, Dale A Sartor, and Eng Lock Lee."Laboratory Low-Pressure Drop Design."ASHRAE Journal 44.8 (2002) 38-43.

Richardson, Thomas J."New Electrochromic Mirror Systems."Solid State Ionics 165 (2002) 305-308.

Walker, Iain S, Darryl J Dickerhoff, and Max H Sherman."The Delta Q method of testing the air leakage of ducts."Proceedings of the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 18-23, 2002 1 (2002) 327-338.

McConahey, Erin, Philip Haves, and Tim Chirst."The Integration of Engineering and Architecture: a Perspective on Natural Ventilation for the new San Francisco Federal Building."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Janda, Kathryn B, Christopher T Payne, Rick Kunkle, and Loren Lutzenhiser."What organizations did (and didn't) do: Three factors that shaped conservation responses to California's 2001 "crisis"."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Roberson, Judy A, Gregory K Homan, Akshay Mahajan, Bruce Nordman, Carrie A Webber, Richard E Brown, Marla C McWhinney, and Jonathan G Koomey."Energy Use and Power Levels in New Monitors and Personal Computers." (2002).

Roberson, Judy A, Gregory K Homan, Akshay Mahajan, Bruce Nordman, Carrie A Webber, Richard E Brown, Marla C McWhinney, and Jonathan G Koomey."Enery Use and Power Management in New Personal Computers and Monitors." (2002) 36.

Hitchcock, Robert J."Software Interoperability for Energy Simulation."2003 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2002).

Powles, Rebecca, Dragan C Curcija, and Christian Kohler."Solar Absorption in Thick and Multilayered Glazings."World Renewable Energy Congress VII (2002).

Lutzenhiser, Loren, Kathryn B Janda, Rick Kunkle, and Christopher T Payne."Understanding the response of commercial and institutional organizations to the California energy crisis." (2002).

Sherman, Max H."SPC 62.2 P Comments Review."IAQ Applications- ASHRAE 3.3 (2002) 10.

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, and Patrick E Phelan."Understanding the Behavior of an F1-ATPase Biomolecular Motor Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."US-Japan Nanotherm Seminar: Nanoscale Thermal Science and Engineering (2002).

Piette, Mary Ann, Norman Bourassa, Tudi Hassl, David Sellers, Hannah Friedman, and Kenneth L Gillespie."A New Guide for Commissioning Air Handling Systems: Using a Model Functional Test."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M, Judy Lai, Daniel Fuller, and Tara Tariq."A Web-Based Virtual Lighting Simulator."ACADIA 2002 Conference (2002).

Barbour, Ed, and Dariush K Arasteh."An Evaluation of Alternative Qualifying Criteria for Energy Star Windows." (2002).

Kinney, Satkartar, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of a California Commercial Building Benchmarking Database."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002) 7.109-7.120.

Bazjanac, Vladimir."Early Lessons from Deployment of IFC Compatible Software."European Community Product and Process Modeling Conference (ECPPM 2003) (2002).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Field Testing of Component-Level Model-Based Fault Detection Methods for Mixing Boxes and VAV Fan Systems."2002 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, and Scott Wentworth."From Design Through Operations-Results from New Construction Performance Contract and Beyond."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, Mark S Levi, David McBride, and Stephen May."GEMnet Status and Accomplishments: GSA's Energy and Maintenance Network."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).