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.
This document demonstrates the modeling methodology for in-duct air and cooling coil ultraviolet germicidal irradiation components and systems for application to Building 661.
This report describes the approach taken to establish such a demand response system at the Navy Yard that can serve as a model for the commercial sector.
This document provides a general narrative regarding recommendations for Building 661 that outlines the current state of technology and its potential to provide an energy efficient lighting system for this building.
This report provides background information on the multizone model development process, gives background information on the inputs necessary for CONTAM model creation, and identifies opportunities to streamline the model development process.
The following paper provides a review of existing literature on the building occupant and his or her behavioral characteristics.
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.
This report describes the variety of AEC CAD applications that exist to create drawings for new and existing construction projects.
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.
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.