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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

Ingle, Aaron, Mithra M Moezzi, Loren Lutzenhiser, and Richard C Diamond."How well do home energy audits serve the homeowner?."2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Weber, Andrew R, and Christopher T Payne."Linking Resources and Structures: Increasing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficient Government Procurement Programs." (2012).

Anders, André."Self-organization and self-limitation in high power impulse magnetron sputtering."Applied Physics Letters 100.22 (2012). DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M."The Case for Cool Roofs." (2012).

Bourassa, Norman, Leo I Rainer, Evan Mills, and Joan Glickman."The Home Energy Scoring Tool: A Simplified Asset Rating for Single Family Homes."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Zhou, Nan, and Lixuan Hong."Urban RAM User Guide (in Chinese)." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K Sydny Fujita."Who Buys What? Understanding Federal Procurement of Energy Efficient Products."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2012).

Lee, Eleanor S, Erin S Claybaugh, and Marc LaFrance."End User Impacts of Automated Electrochromic Windows in a Pilot Retrofit Application."Energy and Buildings 47.April 2012 (2012) 267-284. DOI

Arasteh, Dariush K, Robert Hart, Cezary Misiopecki, Arlid Gustavsen, and Bjørn Petter Jelle."Impacts of Operating Hardware on Window Thermal Performance."BEST3 Conference (2012).

Kohler, Christian."Simulation of complex glazing products; from optical data measurements to model based predictive controls."2012 Building Enclosure Science and Technology (BEST3) Conference (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, K Sydny Fujita, Larry L Dale, and James E McMahon."An Exploration of Innovation and Energy Efficiency in an Appliance Industry."European Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P."Analysis of Casualty Risk per Police-Reported Crash for Model Year 2000 to 2004 Vehicles, using Crash Data from Five States." (2012).

Anders, André, Pavel A Ni, and Albert Rauch."Drifting localization of ionization runaway: Unraveling the nature of anomalous transport in high power impulse magnetron sputtering."Journal of Applied Physics 111.5 (2012) 053304. DOI

Zhu, Yuankun, Rueben J Mendelsberg, Sunnie H.N Lim, Jiaqi Zhu, Jiecai Han, and André Anders."Improved structural and electrical properties of thin ZnO:Al films by dc filtered cathodic arc deposition."Journal of Materials Research 27.05 (2012) 857 - 862. DOI

Sherman, Max H, and Iain S Walker."Philosophy and Approaches for Airtightness Requirements in the USA."International Airtightness Workshop (2012).

Mahdavi, Roozbeh, and William F Tschudi."Wireless Sensor Network for Improving the Energy Efficiency of Data Centers." (2012).

Stratton, J Chris, and Iain S Walker."Health and Safety Guide for Home Performance Contractors." (2012).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, David Fridley, and Nina Khanna."International Review of the Development and Implementation of Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Programs." (2012).

Bauman, Fred S, Thomas L Webster, Stefano Schiavon, Hui Zhang, Edward A Arens, Kwang Ho Lee, Tyler Hoyt, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Timothy Moore, Wilmer Pasut, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, and Elliot Nahman."Advanced Design and Commissioning Tools for Energy-Efficient Building Technologies."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2012).

Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, and Nina Khanna."Development of a Low-Carbon Indicator System for China."Habitat International (2012).

Konis, Kyle S."Effective Daylighting: Evaluating Daylighting Performance in the San Francisco Federal Building from the Perspective of Building Occupants."Architecture (2012).

Jelle, Bjørn Petter, Andrew Hynd, Arlid Gustavsen, Dariush K Arasteh, Howdy Goudey, and Robert Hart."Fenestration of Today and Tomorrow: A State-of-the-Art Review and Future Research Opportunities."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 96 (2012) 1-28. DOI

Payne, Christopher T."The Role of Business Systems in Achieving Market Transformation."Procurement, Innovation and Green Growth: The story continues... (2012).

Anders, André, Jiří Čapek, Matêj Hála, and Ludvik Martinu."The ‘recycling trap’: a generalized explanation of discharge runaway in high-power impulse magnetron sputtering."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45.1 (2012) 012003. DOI

Zhu, Dandan, Tianzhen Hong, Da Yan, and Chuang Wang."Comparative research in building energy modeling programs."China Annual HVACR Conference (2012).