Carlos Duarte

Carlos has a BS and MS in mechanical engineering and a PhD in Architecture in the Building Science, Technology and Sustainability program from UC Berkeley. He has expertise in whole building energy simulation and radiant system design and control. He has been working with semantic interoperability in commercial Building Automation Systems through the US-DOE funded Brick project (2019-2022), CalNEXT project (2022-ongoing), and a joint appointment as LBL. He investigated the design and control of high thermal mass radiant systems (HTMR) during his PhD studies. In particular, he studied the system’s impact on the space cooling load, plant cooling capacity, and controls that shift cooling loads to more favorable conditions and times. He analyzed the potential of chiller-less designs in US and Californian by coupling HTMR with evaporative cooling towers to reduce energy consumption in buildings. He also helped developed design tools to reduce the barriers for the widespread implementation of these systems.