The presentations, news, research summaries, reports, and technology overviews are collected here by focus area and represent the body of work developed by the CBEI partners during the 5-year project period. For additional information on market challenges, approach, and impacts, see each focus area overview.
The strategic focus of CBEI is on full-spectrum retrofit of existing average size commercial and multi-family residential buildings. This report reviews the integrated design process for the CBEI headquarters building.
The EEB Hub is working to address how energy consumption influences architectural style.
A key objective of the EEB Hub is to provide successful demonstrations of integrated building design methods that lead to deep, reliable cuts in energy use while improving overall asset value overall in real estate markets.
Organisations and their facilities managers are under pressure to reduce the space allocation to individuals in open-plan offices, as a means to reduce costs.
This report evaluates literature on the current theories of “integrated design” and conducted a series of interviews with architects, engineers and others involved in commercial retrofits.
The original purpose of this subtask was to identify “…material and a delivery format suitable for a multimedia documentary on the technology, tools and processes under consideration for inclusion in the 661 retrofit.”