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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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We offer a variety of technologies designed to simulate and model real-world circumstances to assist in energy-saving programs and help building owners build better buildings. These tools can help calculate performance of building systems like windows and shades, help consumers and builders pick the best windows for a variety of applications and much more.

Publications

Publications By Research Area

2012

Mills, Evan, and Paul A Mathew."Monitoring-Based Commissioning: Benchmarking Analysis of 24 University Buildings in California."Energy Engineering (2012).

Chojnowski, D, K Straub, Evan Mills, and T White."Online Communities for Creating Change: Home Energy Pros."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Delp, William W, and Brett C Singer."Performance Assessment of U.S. Residential Cooking Exhaust Hoods."Environmental Science & Technology 46.11 (2012) 6167-6173. DOI

Payne, Christopher T, and Andrew R Weber."Public Sector Procurement: Issues in Program Development & Delivery." (2012).

Maddalena, Randy L, Melissa M Lunden, Daniel L Wilson, Cristina Ceballos, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Jonathan L Slack, and Larry L Dale."Quantifying Stove Emissions Related to Different Use Patterns for the Silver‐mini (Small Turkish) Space Heating Stove." (2012).

Sanders, Mark D, Kristen Parrish, and Paul A Mathew."Ready to Retrofit: The Process of Project Team Selection, Building Benchmarking, and Financing Commercial Building Energy Retrofit Projects." (2012).

Zuo, Wangda, Mingang Jin, and Qingyan Chen."Reduction of numerical viscosity in FFD model."Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics 6.2 (2012) 234-247.

Taylor, Cody, Paul A Mathew, George Hernandez, and Andrea C Mercado."Standard Energy Efficiency Data (SEED) Platform: A Tool for Jurisdictions to Track and Transact Energy Data."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Effocoency in Buildings (2012).

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and John Breshears."The Energy Saving Potential of Membrane-Based Enthalpy Recovery in Vav Systems for Commercial Office Buildings."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

Jin, Mingang, Wangda Zuo, and Qingyan Chen."Validation of three dimensional fast fluid dynamics for indoor airflow simulations."the 2nd International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2012) (2012) 1055-1062.

Mills, Evan, and Paul A Mathew."Web Services that Foster Innovation in Buildings Energy Analysis Tools."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mills, Evan."Weighing the Risks of Climate Change Mitigation Strategies."Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68.6 (2012) 67-78. DOI

2011

Wenzel, Thomas P."An Analysis of the Relationship between Casualty Risk Per Crash and Vehicle Mass and Footprint for Model Year 2000-2007 Light-Duty Vehicles - Preliminary Report." (2011).

Walker, Iain S, and Darryl J Dickerhoff."Development of a Residential Integrated Ventilation Controller." (2011).

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Ben Rosenblum, R. R Lily Hu, Daniel Harris, Paul A Mathew, Phillip N Price, Geoffrey C Bell, Srinivas Katipamula, and Michael Brambley."Energy Information Handbook: Applications for Energy-Efficient Building Operations." (2011).

Wetter, Michael."GenOpt Generic Optimization Program, User Manual, Version 3.1.0." (2011).

Peffer, Therese, Marco Pritoni, Alan K Meier, Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry."How people use thermostats in homes: A review."Building and Environment 46.12 (2011). DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M, Heng Pan, George A Ban-Weiss, Pablo J Rosado, Riccardo Paolini, and Hashem Akbari."Potential benefits of solar reflective car shells: Cooler cabins, fuel savings and emission reductions."Applied Energy 88.12 (2011) 4343-4357. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M, Phillip N Price, Max H Sherman, and Brett C Singer."A Method to Estimate the Chronic Health Impact of Air Pollutants in U.S. Residences."Environmental Health Perspectives 120.2 (2011) 216-222. DOI

Anders, André, and Jeff Brown."A Plasma Lens for Magnetron Sputtering."IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 39.11 (2011) 2528 - 2529. DOI

Maile, Tobias, Vladimir Bazjanac, James O'Donnell, and Matthew Garr."A software tool to compare measured and simulated building energy performance data."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

Zuo, Wangda, Andrew McNeil, Michael Wetter, and Eleanor S Lee."Acceleration of Radiance for Lighting Simulation by using Parallel Computing with OpenCL."12th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (Building Simulation 2011) (2011) p. 110-117.

Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, James O'Donnell, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, and Benjamin Welle."An Assessment of the use of Building Energy Performance Simulation in Early Design."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, Xiufeng Pang, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."BACnet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Proceedings of the 12th IBPSA Conference (2011) p. 294-301.