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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.

We work closely with industry partners, academics and government officials to achieve these goals, and share our research widely
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We are at the forefront of cutting-edge research that redefines building technology and explores all areas of urban systems.

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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Enjoy presentations from Building Technology & Urban systems research experts on a wide variety of topics in the areas of building energy efficiency, the electricity grid and how it relates to buildings and much more.
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2003

Shendell, Derek G."Assessment of organic compound exposures, thermal comfort parameters, and HVAC system-driven air exchange rates in public school portable classrooms in California." (2003).

Sherman, Max H, and Wanyu R Chan."Building Airtightness: Research and Practice."State of the Art in Ventilation (2003) 8-12.

Kinney, Satkartar, and Mary Ann Piette."California commercial building energy benchmarking." (2003).

Walker, Iain S, Jennifer A McWilliams, and Steven J Konopacki."Case Study Field Evaluation of a Systems Approach to Retrofitting a Residential HVAC System." (2003).

Wray, Craig P, and Nance Matson."Duct Leakage Impacts on VAV System Performance in Large Commercial Buildings." (2003).

Wray, Craig P."Duct Thermal Performance Models for Large Commercial Buildings." (2003).

Aebischer, Bernard, Markus A Balmer, Satkartar Kinney, Pascale Le Strat, Yoshiaki Shibata, and Frederic Varone."Energy Efficiency Indicators for High Electric-Load Buildings."ECEEE 2003 Summer Study Proceedings (2003).

Walker, Iain S, and Craig P Wray."Evaluation of Flow Capture Techniques for Measuring HVAC Grille Airflows."ASHRAE Transactions 109 (2003).

Walker, Iain S, and Cyril Guillot."Experimental Evaluation of Gas Filled Plenum Duct Insulation." (2003).

Xu, Peng, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."Field tests of model based component level fault detection method." (2003).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Heat Recovery in Building Envelopes." (2003).

Walker, Iain S, Michael D Mingee, and Douglas E Brenner."Improving Air Handler Efficiency in Residential HVAC Applications." (2003).

Mendell, Mark J."Indices for IEQ and building-related symptoms."Indoor Air 13 (2003) 364-368.

Levin, Hal."Indoor Air Pollutants Part 1: General description of pollutants, levels and standards."Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (2003) 1-12.

Reichard, Georg, Adil Al-Mumin, and Konstantinos M Papamichael."Instructor: Let the Experts Guide the Use of Simulation Software."DIGITAL DESIGN - 22nd International eCAADe Conference (2003).

Siegel, Jeffrey A, and Iain S Walker."Integrating ducts into the conditioned space: Successes and challenges."Architectural Engineering Institute Conference, Austin, TX (2003).

Macleod, Matthew."On the influence of forests on the overall fate of semivolatile organic contaminants."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 17 (2003) 256-259.

Thatcher, Tracy L, David J Wilson, Emily E Wood, Mathias J Craig, and Richard G Sextro."Pollutant Dispersion in a Large Indoor Space: Part 1 -- Scaled experiments using a water-filled model with occupants and furniture."Indoor Air 14 (2003) 258-271.

Wray, Craig P, Iain S Walker, Jeffrey A Siegel, and Max H Sherman."Practical Diagnostics for Evaluating Residential Commissioning Metrics."Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report to the California Energy Commission (2003).

Sherman, Max H, and Nance Matson."Reducing Indoor Residential Exposures to Outdoor Pollutants." (2003).

McWilliams, Jennifer A."Review of air flow measurement techniques." (2003).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Sealant Longevity for Residential Ducts."Durability of Building and Construction Sealants and Adhesives ASTM STP 1453 (2003).

Martin, Rodney, Peng Xu, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."Software toolbox for component-level model-based fault detection methods." (2003).

Diamond, Richard C, Craig P Wray, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Nance Matson, and Duo Wang."Thermal distribution systems in commercial buildings." (2003).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Ventilation Technologies Scoping Study." (2003).