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.
A report on the major findings of the costs, benefits and barriers of commercial energy efficiency retrofits from 26 in-depth one on one interviews with commercial building owners, service providers, public funding managers and private investors.
This first-year report for the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) Energy Innovation Hub assessment task summarizes the efforts during the second half of the first year of GPIC’s operation.
A detailed identification and analysis is conducted on the interoperability gaps between Nbims/Open standards and building performance simulation tools.
Reviewed in the Benchmarking Report which describes both the principles behind window glazing performance, and applications in the industry.
This report investigates an integrated approach to building controls that strive to achieve and maintain energy efficiency and high performance building environments.
The overall project goal is to prototype and evaluate a systematic methodology and easily accessible tools for performing rapid uncertainty quantication, sensitivity analysis, and parameter investigations within an integrated deep retrot design process, leveraging accessible and aordable high performance computing and cloud infrastructure.
This report is the first generation profile of the available and cost-effective technologies and integrated systems that provide measurable energy savings for existing commercial buildings.
In this study, minimization of life cycle costs for building materials and operational energy consumption of a reference office building is achieved through numeric optimization of some key envelope design parameters by the use of combined simulation and optimization techniques.
This study is the second phase of simulation-based parametric analysis conducted on Building 661 case.
This study is focused on simulation-based parametric evaluation of building enclosure measures that can be taken during the retrofit of Building 661 case.
The exercise seeks to identify, study and evaluate existing energy simulation software in the construction industry that are suitable for the early stages of architectural design, i.e., during the conceptual or early schematic design phases.
This report discusses and explains the suite of programs developed to facilitate analysis and interpretation of EnergyPlus simulation outputs for design decision support purposes.
The online web-based simulation tool survey covering energy, lighting and CFD simulation is intended to gather pertinent information for evaluating the current usage, strengths, and weaknesses and provide recommendations on the best available Energy, CFD, and Lighting simulation tools in industry.
This research on energy efficiency and occupant behavior in multi-tenanted buildings provides valuable insights into the challenges that confront the goal of achieving a 50% energy reduction in commercial buildings in the Greater Philadelphia region by 2014.
This report provides a detailed analysis is conducted on the process of developing building envelope components within EnergyPlus environment with the aim of identifying required input data and the design correlates for opaque and transparent assemblies. Alternative envelope model definition methods are discussed and explained through schemas developed to reveal relationships (hierarchies) between EnergyPlus classes and objects pertaining to a specific definition method.