Center for Building-Energy Smart Technologies
The Center is designed to catalyze and optimize collaboration between the universities and industry partners in building energy systems to be intelligent, resilient and efficient. The focus of Center activities is to develop, integrate and test energy technologies for buildings; prototyping and producing intelligent building materials and assemblies, smart HVAC systems and integrated renewable energy systems. These smart technologies target enhanced energy sustainability within networked communities and urban systems; across buildings, electric vehicle power infrastructure, renewable energy micro-grids, communications, and other food-energy-water systems. A lower carbon footprint, livability and the overall resiliency of the built environment is the goal. The academic partners of the proposed Center have a wealth of expertise, carry out their research in state-of-art facilities, and bring a depth of experience innovating with industry in this area. To our knowledge, there is no center currently operating in this important field.
The five main areas for the center are:
The development of smart building materials that adapt dynamically to changes in indoor and outdoor environments.
The development of smart building energy systems that increase efficiency using continuous monitoring, data mining, intelligent diagnostics and optimal controls.
The development of integrated energy generation systems that work with buildings such as solar power, combined heat and thermo-electric generators.
The development of smart grid systems to better distribute energy resources.
Integrating energy efficient technologies and renewable energy resources through better urban design and operation.
University of Colorado at Boulder
Arizona State University
New York University
City College of New York
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