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 EEB Hub is working to address how energy consumption influences architectural style.
The EEB Hub is a founding sponsor of The Sustainability Workshop, a project-based learning school for 30 high school seniors selected from high schools throughout the City of Philadelphia and located at the Navy Yard.
EEB Hub is participating in the planning process that will chart the path for the first major growth and upgrade of the Navy Yard independent unregulated electric grid in many decades.
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.
The purpose of building energy efficiency rating and data disclosure is to increase demand for energy efficient buildings among owners and tenants, therefore creating increased incentive for investment in building energy efficiency.
Energy use in the buildings accounts for 40% of the total energy demand of which the residential buildings account for 22% and the commercial buildings account for 18% of all energy usage.
This report presents research performed by Drexel University in Year One that explores the role of occupant behavior in building energy efficiency.
This report provides an overview of "Energy Chickens" which is a testbed game designed to evaluate data collection mechanisms, communication protocols, and feedback strategies for their consistency with the energy?saving goals of GPIC and appropriateness for deployment in commercial office settings.
This research roadmap is focused on conducting research using existing and state-of-the-art building components and systems in an integrated fashion.
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.
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.”