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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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Publications

Publications By Research Area

1984

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Analysis of a Visual Performance Experiment."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 14 (1984) 448-465.

Karayel, Mahmut, Mojtaba Navvab, Eliyahu Neeman, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Daylight Availability Data for San Francisco."Energy and Buildings 6 (1984) 273-281.

Siminovitch, Michael J, Francis M Rubinstein, and Rudolph R Verderber."Determining Lamp/Ballast System Performance with a Temperature Controlled Integrating Chamber."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 14 (1984) 364-378.

Lampert, Carl M."Electrochromic Materials and Devices for Energy-Efficient Windows."Solar Energy Materials 11 (1984).

Lampert, Carl M."Electrochromic Materials for the Regulation of Solar Energy Transmission through Windows." (1984).

Klems, Joseph H."Error Analysis of In-Situ Field Tests of Fenestration Performance."Energy and Buildings 8 (1984) 165-173.

Borgers, Tom R, and Hashem Akbari."Free convective turbulent flow within the trombe wall channel."Solar Energy 33.3-4 (1984) 253-264. DOI

Johnson, Russell, Robert Sullivan, Stephen E Selkowitz, Shirley Nozaki, Craig Conner, and Dariush K Arasteh."Glazing Energy Performance and Design Optimization with Daylighting."Energy and Buildings 6.4 (1984) 305-317. DOI

Diamond, Richard C, and David T Grimsrud."Manual on Indoor Air Quality."University Press of the Pacific [A reprint of the publication done for the Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI EM-3469, Palo Alto, California, February, 1984. 114 pp.] (1984).

Klems, Joseph H."Measurement of Fenestration Net Energy Performance: Considerations Leading to Development of the Mobile Window Thermal Test (MoWiTT) Facility."Journal of Solar Energy Engineering (1984).

Selkowitz, Stephen E."Nomographs for Predesign Analysis of the Potential Electrical Eenrgy and Load Savings from Daylighting." (1984).

Neeman, Eliyahu, Glenn Sweitzer, and Edward L Vine."Office Worker Response to Lighting and Daylighting Issues in Workspace Environments: A Pilot Survey."Energy and Buildings 6 (1984) 159-171.

Verderber, Rudolph R."Review of Lighting Control Equipment and Applications."Lighting Design + Application 16 (1984).

Choi, U.S, Russell Johnson, and Stephen E Selkowitz."The Impact of Daylighting on Peak Electrical Demand."Energy and Buildings 6.4 (1984) 387-399. DOI

Neeman, Eliyahu, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Windows, Skylights and Atria - Occupants Visual/Subjective Comparison."ASHRAE Transactions 90 (1984).

1983

Diamond, Richard C."Energy and Housing for the Elderly: Preliminary Observations."Proceedings of the Working Conference on Families and Energy--Coping with Uncertainty (1983).

Lipschutz, Ronnie D, Richard C Diamond, and Robert C Sonderegger."Some Technical and Behavioral Aspects of Energy Use in a High-Rise Apartment Building." (1983).

Neeman, Eliyahu, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Daylight Availability as a Function of Atmospheric Conditions."5th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation (1983).

Haves, Philip."SERI-RES: a Thermal Simulation Model for Passive Solar and Low Energy Buildings."Design methods for Passive Solar Buildings Conf (1983).

Selkowitz, Stephen E, and Carl M Lampert."Advanced Optical and Thermal Technologies for Aperature Control."Passive and Hybrid Solar Energy Update (1983).

Lipschutz, Ronnie D, Richard C Diamond, and Robert C Sonderegger."Energy Use in a High-Rise Apartment Building." (1983).

Berman, Sam M, Daniel S Greenhouse, Ian L Bailey, and Arthur Bradley."Experimental Studies Relating Environmental Lighting Flicker to Visual Fatigue in VDT Operators."20th Session of CIE (CIE Session 83) (1983).

Research, Lighting Systems."Energy-Efficient H.I.D. Solid-State Ballast: Phase II Final Report." (1983).

Selkowitz, Stephen E, Russell Johnson, Robert Sullivan, and S Choi."Impact of Fenestration on Energy Use and Peak Loads in Daylighted Commercial Buildings."8th National Passive Solar Conference (1983) 187-192.

Selkowitz, Stephen E."New Tools for Analyzing Thermal and Daylighting Performance of Fenestration in Multistory Buildings."International Symposium on the Design of Multistory Buildings for Physical and Environmental Performance, June 1-3, 1983 (1983).