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["Organization Name","Contact Name","Contact Address","Contact Email","Contact Phone","Organization Type","Area of Technical Expertise","Description of Capabilities"]
["All Cell Technologies, LLC","Greg Albright","2321 W. 41st Street, Chicago, IL, 60609","galbright@allcelltech.com","773-922-1155 x211","Private Company","lithium-ion battery system design & assembly; thermal management; cell qualification; life-cycle modeling; and, cell-level performance & testing; and, battery-level performance & destructive testing","AllCell designs and manufactures lithium-ion batteries for a wide variety of stationary applications.  Our systems in the field provide frequency regulation, renewable smoothing, demand charge avoidance, and back up power services to customers. End use customers include commercial and industrial sites with on-site battery capacities from 15-880 kWh. All of our batteries incorporate our Phase Change CompositeTM (PCC) system, a proprietary, passive thermal management solution.  PCC enhances system safety, enables higher power applications, extends battery life, and reduces external HVAC costs, all without increasing the footprint of the batter"]
["Arborlight Inc.","Jon Mapel","46701 Commerce Center Drive, Plymouth, MI 48170","jon.mapel@arborlight.com","888-834-8214","Small business","Smart lighting, controls","Arborlight is a product company at the forefront of human-lighting intelligent interactions. Its first suite of products integrate concepts in natural and artificial daylight blending architectural lighting fixtures that look and respond like skylights and windows. The company is expandings its controls capabilities to adjust lighting conditions in sync with sensed inputs from the building and its occupants down to granularity of data streams from specific occupants via continuous data streams. The company's existing products have been implemented in Fortune 50 companies across the US and has won industry awards, including LED Magazine Best new SSL fixture and the DOE Next Generation Luminaire Competition. "]
["Bes-tech, Inc","Mingsheng Liu","4640 S 59th St, Omaha, NE 68117","mliu@bes-tech.net","402-321-2705","Private company","HVAC product development and manufacturing, Building automation system manufacturing, Develop energy efficiency technologies","Bes-tech is an energy efficiency technology and smart HVAC product manufacturing company. Bes-tech has developed TPOR technology which integrates optimization and retrofit together to reduce the cost and maximize the energy savings. Bes-tech has developed Digi series products, which includes Digi-RTU for small AHU, and Digi-VAV for large AHU. Digi series product can reduce building energy consumption 30% and more over the existing building technologies"]
["Bonder Lab","Dr. Josh Whitkin","4485 Pleasant Valley Court, Oakland CA 94611","josh@bonderlab.com","510-485-9448","Small Business","Software Design; Interaction Design; User Experience design\nSpecialist in highly immersive software that creates engagement around difficult topics; improves motivation; supports and guides behavior change;","We are a small team of software designers, engineers, and content creators.  We design and produce graphical, engaging standalone PC applications, mobile applications (apps), and web-based experiences.  We collaborate with subject matter experts to create digital experiences that change the user's knowledge, attitude, and motivation around targeted topics.  We use interative \"agile\" methods that combine both qualitative and quantitative data from our users.  We are experienced in Federal SBIR grant application processes, and have been PI in several NIH SBIR grants."]
["Building Energy Research Group (BERG)","Anthony Denzer","University of Wyoming\nCollege of Engineering and Applied Science\nDepartment of Civil & Architectural Engineering\nDept. 3295\n1000 E. University Avenue\nLaramie, WY 82071\n","tdenzer@uwyo.edu","307-766-5256","University","Net-zero energy design, building simulation, monitoring-based building commissioning, innovative air-conditioning system development, feasibility analysis for energy efficiency and renewable energy","BERG, Building Energy Research Group at the University of Wyoming, consists of four faculty members (Anthony Denzer, Ph.D., M.Arch., LEED-AP; Jon Gardzelewski AIA, M.Arch., LEED-AP, Gang Tan, Ph.D., P.E., LEED-AP, Liping Wang, Ph.D., P.E.) in architectural engineering, one faculty member in the Department of Economics & Finance (Ben Gilbert Ph.D.), and one faculty member in UW Extension and the School of Energy Resources (Milton Geiger M.S., LEED GA, REP, CEM).  \nEnergy, daylighting, and CFD simulations to improve energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality; Design of zero-energy house via market analysis and building simulations; Energy simulations for HVAC systems and control operations; High efficiency thermoelectric cooling device development for building applications; Study of automatic building commissioning through fault detection and diagnostics for building systems\n"]
["Center for Energy and Environment","David Bohac, PE","212 3rd Ave North Suite 560, Minneapolis, MN  55401","dbohac@mncee.org","612-802-1697","Non-profit, Research","Applied field research and development on technologies that contribute to reduction in building energy consumption and improved IAQ including: Infiltration diagnostic technologies and advanced envelope air sealing technologies","CEE has over thirty years experience field testing new technologies in cold climates (Minnesota). Our work is done in residential, commercial, multifamily and industrial settings.  We study mechanical systems and building envelopes, with experience in large building leakage and post-construction air sealing"]
["CoolGreenPower LLC","Josef Mueller","60 Thoreau St Suite 222, Concord, MA 01742","jmueller@coolgreenpower.com","617-505-1004 x102","Wholesale Distributor of Energy Efficiency Technologies","COOLNOMIX® retrofit energy efficiency devices for air conditioning and refrigeration that reduces energy consumption by 20% or more while improving temperature control","Procurement, inventory management, shipping, site surveys, education / training, technical support, product registration, business direct portal, and warranty management for COOLNOMIX® retrofit energy efficiency devices in North America"]
["Eco-Haven Building Systems ","Frederick G. Terry III","764 Dry Run Road, Beech Creek, PA 16822","fterry3@eco-haven.com","570-660-1122","Building Science Consultant; LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt; RESNET HERS Rater & QAD; AEE Certified Energy Manager; Educator & Trainer for various programs including NAHB Green & Business Mgt, BPI Building Analyst & Envelope Professional, RESNET HERS Rater & RFI, Modular Housing Training Institute (MHTI) ","Building , Science Applications in Residential SF, MF and light commercial; significant experience and contacts with modular construction industry","With over 30 years of experience in the construction industry and nearly half of those focused on building science, I have been able to develop my expertise into a resource for the residential, multifamily and light commercial construction industry. The majority of the 30 years has been assisting the modular construction industry (IRC based not HUD) with incorporating specifications, processes and procedures required by IECC, LEED, ENERGY STAR® , ZERH and various other programs. In addition, I developed and delivered multiple presentations, trainings and education programs for industry stakeholders applying building science principles as the new SOP. In addition, advanced applications included a focus on quality systems, project management, LEAN and Six Sigma strategies to support construction processes and procedures. I have successfully collaborated with all types of stakeholders both public and private including, but not limited to Secondary and Post-Secondary academic institutions, local and state level workforce development initiatives, industry trade associations and certification organizations. "]
["Ecovent Systems Corp","Scott McFadden","24 Cambridge St, Suite 6, Boston, Ma 02129","scottm@ecoventsystems.com","609-410-2633","Small Business","Room-by-room HVAC zoning, wireless sensor, control systems, building energy efficiency, data science and analytics, thermal modeling, systems simulation, HVAC controls, rapid prototyping, wireless communication, low power electronics design","The Ecovent system is the only wireless room-by-room zoning system that offers individual temperature control in every room through a smartphone app. Through easy-to-install, self-configuring sensors and motorized vents, Ecovent monitors and controls airflow, temperature, static pressure, and other factors relevant to HVAC system dynamics, to maximize comfort while saving money by reducing system runtime and dynamically adjusting airflow. The system is currently available for the residential market and will soon be developed for commercial applications"]
["EDCS Power","Ann Della","11516 N Port Washington Road, Suite 2, Mequon WI 53092","ann.della@edcspower.com","262-289-1022 ex 704","Small Business/Technology","Power System Design, Building System Energy Efficiency, Renewable\nEnergy Integration, Micro Grid System Design and Controls","EDCS Power is a company that provides direct current integrated systems for commercial building spaces. Direct current power systems enable efficient and reliable renewables integration"]
["Energy Design Service Systems (EDSS)","David Ely","7050 Jomar Drive, Whitmore Lake, MI 48189","Davidely@edssenergy.com","810-227-3377","For-profit company, Limited Liability Company (LLC)","Energy Analysis (Facility Energy Audits, Water Audits, Retrocommissioning Studies, Carbon Emission Tracking, Certified Energy Managers), Green Certifications and Benchmarking (LEED®, ENERGY STAR, carbon reduction), Lighting (design, supply, and installation), and Incentives (EPAct 1790D tax deduction, secondary incentives, state and utility rebates, and grants). ","EDSS is a leading national provider of energy-focused solutions for commercial buildings. With eight regional offices servicing all 50 states, the EDSS team has seven engineers, twenty energy consultants and a management team with over 200 years of combined experience in energy consultation. Regardless of the industry, commercial enterprises nationwide count on EDSS to help them implement strategies that save energy while improving employee and customer experience. Since 2007, our team has made our clients’ business operations cleaner, more efficient, and more environmentally responsible."]
["Energy Innovation Department, 08366","Thomas E. Felter","Energy Innovation Department, 08366\nSandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA  94550\nPhone:  (925) 294-3327, Cell:  (925) 337-9810\nAssistant:  Martha Campiotti, mmcampi@sandia.gov, (925) 294-2998\n","tefelte@sandia.gov","925-294-3327","R&D","Sandia Laboratory’s Energy Innovation Department is a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers tasked to identify important national problems and develop novel solutions outside of the mainstream.  The group seeks improvements in energy technologies that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen US competitiveness.  An example is the Sandia Cooler which is finding application in CPU, GPU, solid-state lighting and power electronics.  The Department is working on wider application of the cooler, as well as scaling to larger systems, such as efficient heat pumps for buildings. Other projects include hydrogen storage and safety technology, weapons research, development of a free piston engine linear alternator system and rotary electrical power handling that reduces the cost of ownership by eliminating high maintenance brushes and slip rings","Work in the group spans theory, modeling, applied experimentation and development of prototype systems.  Due to the multidisciplinary needs for developing out-of-the-box concepts and the huge research capabilities available at Sandia, we readily collaborate with specialists outside our expertise."]
["Envelop, LLC","Robert Jones","W315 S454 Christopher Way, Delafield, WI 53018","rjones@envelopglass.com","262-501-3470","Private Business","Research and development of high thermal performance vacuum system glass curtain walls.","Research and design of high thermal performance glass curtain walls that comprise large structural vacuum insulated glass units connected to pumping stations that establish and actively maintain vacuum service pressures within a façade for the service life of a building."]
["Fintronx LLC","Dori Michaud","5995 Chapel Hill Road, Suite 119 Raleigh NC 27607","dmichaud@fintronx.com","919-448-8698","Manufacture","LED Lighting","Manufacturing of SSL Technologies "]
["Fraunhofer CSE","Dr. Jan Kosny","5 Channel Center Street, Boston, MA 02210","jkosny@cse.fraunhofer.org","617-714-6525","NonProfit Organization","Building Energy Efficiency, Advanced Thermal Insulations, PCMs, BIPVs","Based in Boston, MA, the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) is a non-profit applied research and development laboratory. CSE's mission is to foster economic development through the commercialization of clean energy technologies for the benefit of society. Fraunhofer performs applied research for federal and state governments, multinational corporations, as well as small to medium-sized companies.\nFraunhofer CSE's research drives innovation, builds business and guides policy. The Center plays a unique and central role in the clean energy ecosystem, developing innovative technologies for commercialization so that people have easier access to technologies that create economic and community benefit. Since its founding in 2008, Fraunhofer CSE has filed and licensed several patents in photovoltaic and building energy technologies, and created over 170 direct job years and hundreds of indirect jobs in the clean energy technology center. Thanks to DOE EERE funding through both the BENEFIT and SunShot programs, CSE is currently one of the leading East Coast R&D centers in areas of Advanced Thermal Insulations and Plug-and-Play Photovoltaics for American Residential and Commercial Buildings\n"]
["FS Energy","Aaron Mehta","622 Third Ave, FL14","aaron.mehta@fsenergyservices.com","212-324-9092","Subsidiary, Publicly Traded Corporation - FSV","Multi-Family Buildings","Our core services are energy data analysis to identify efficiency opportunities and post retro-fit M&V"]
["General Electric, GE Global Research","Anna Lis Laursen","1 Research Circle, Niskayuna NY 12309","Anna.laursen@ge.com","518-387-5206","Business > 1000","Thermal Systems, Sensors and Controls, Software and System Analytics","GE Global Research has extensive experience developing computational tools that enable rapid evaluation of complex thermal and flow problems.  Our Thermal Systems Organization has delivered solutions for evaluating thermal designs ranging from gas turbine blades to hospital computer tomography scan rooms.  Our Software and System Analytics Organization has developed a platform to manage big data, has provided user interface solutions, and has generated algorithms and tools for data mining, automatic model tuning and optimization for a variety of applications. The GE team has developed the physical models that form the basis of each module, generate a graphical user interface through which each module will be accessed, establish a framework for entering and archiving performance data needed to support the calculations, and release an engineering assessment of the building thermal options considered by the user."]
["Hendron Energy Consulting Services","Robert Hendron","255 Union Blvd, Suite 150, Lakewood, CO 80228","bob@hecsonline.com","303-974-6720","Consulting","Building energy research","Hendron Energy Consulting Services (HECS) provides technical support for a variety of research, development, and implementation projects in the field of energy efficient buildings. HECS specializes in small, short-term analytical and research projects that require specialized expertise or can help offset temporary staffing shortages for government and industrial organizations active in the energy efficiency field"]
["Home Innovation Research Labs (HI)","Thomas Kenney","400 Prince Georges Blvd, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774","tkenney@homeinnovation.com","301-430-6246","Corporation – Large","Building Science, Laboratory Testing of construction materials and systems – including structural, thermal, weathering, component-small-scale and system-large-scale testing, Hygrothermal modeling and full-scale test hut facility, third-party quality assurance and product certification, standards and codes development, and market research consulting services- qualitative (focus groups) and quantitative (surveys), construction efficiency time/motion studies, etc. ","Home Innovation Research Labs was founded in 1964 as a wholly-owned, independent subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Originating as a small product testing laboratory, we have since grown to become a full-service market research, consulting, product testing, and accredited third-party certification agency dedicated solely to issues related to the home building industry.\n\nSince our rather modest beginnings, our clients have grown to include stakeholders in every facet of the home building industry – including builders, product manufacturers, trade associations, and government agencies. As our clientele has grown, so have our facilities. Our headquarters office building in Upper Marlboro, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC, is now joined on our 25-acre research campus by a state-of-the-art product testing and market research facility, as well as several outdoor evaluation areas.\n\nOver our 50-year history, Home Innovation Research Labs has been integral in solving many of the industry’s most difficult product and technology issues, and helping to introduce some of its most beneficial innovations. Our deep history and vast expertise help to inform every interaction our team has with others in the industry. Home Innovation has been a long-standing DOE Building America team member, a recipient of multiple Top Innovation Awards from DOE; and has collaborated with national laboratories and stakeholders in an effort to mainstream cost-effective and energy-efficient solution options for the housing construction market.\n\nOur capabilities and bona fides in the Area of Interest Topics listed in the Notice of Intent include: \n• Topic 1 – HI has  conducted cost optimization studies on window and building envelope retrofit technologies using value-engineering techniques - these studies have been undertaken at the conceptual level, as-well-as in full-scale demonstration field studies for existing buildings and new construction, in both residential and commercial settings; \n• Topic 2 – conducted human comfort studies of various control strategies and space heating technologies; \n• Topic 3 – working knowledge of diagnostic tools including blower door and PFT and tracer gas technologies; \n• Topic 4 -  plug and play sensors have become conventional tools-of-the-trade in our field demonstration projects that require performance monitoring and equipment control;\n•  Topic 5 – Home Innovation has conducted extensive research involving DOE, designers, trade contractors, building scientists, remodelers and builders on cost-effective building envelope air sealing technologies.  \n"]
["IBACOS, Inc","Ari Rapport","2214 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222","arapport@ibacos.com ","412-889-7074  ","Small Business, Corporation","Residential Energy Efficiency, New Construction and Existing Home Retrofit; Residential HVAC and Building Envelope Systems; Building Energy Modeling; New Product Development & Market Integration","The IBACOS team has a 25-year history of residential research, development, and demonstration activities focused on building better homes – homes that deliver unparalleled energy performance and durability with increased occupant health and comfort. Our work has focused on implementing public/private RD&D partnerships to develop and test innovative technologies in the areas of residential HVAC and envelope systems, and whole-house approaches to energy efficiency and the integration of renewable energy systems. Our team works with manufacturers to help them develop better products; government to implement solutions to transform the market; and industry to bring them together to change the way they design and build their homes to meet ever-increasing performance standards"]
["Iowa Energy Center","Xiaohui Zhou","2521 University BLVD, STE 124; Ames, IA 50010","xhzhou@iastate.edu","515-965-7342","Public University","Building Control Strategies and Optimizations; Building Energy Modeling and Simulation (Energy Plus, Design Builder); Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics (AFDD); Sensor and Controller Testing; Smart Sensors and Plug and Play Control System","1. The Iowa Energy Center research team consists of a program manager (Dr. Xiaohui Zhou, PE), a research scientist (Dr. Ran Liu), a mechanical engineer (Scott Lochhead, PE), and several Iowa State University graduate students. Our team provides resources and technical support for research and demonstration projects conducted at Iowa Energy Center’s Energy Resource Station (ERS) – a unique facility that allows for dynamic testing of an entire building energy system within a controlled environment.  The facility has laboratory-testing capabilities combined with real building characteristics and is capable of simultaneously testing two full-scale commercial building systems side-by-side with identical thermal loadings and control schemes.\nThe ERS Test Direct Digital Control (DDC) System is based on the modern, commercial-grade Distech Controls’ EC-Net AXTM Building Automation and Energy Management Platform.  The system is a comprehensive web-based, multi-protocol platform powered by the NiagaraAX Framework®. The open structure creates a common development and management environment for the integration of LONWORKS®, Modbus™, and other control standards. It also provides seamless and intelligent integration of HVAC, Lighting, Access Control, CCTV, Energy Management, and additional building systems. A general EC-Net AX™ system architecture can be found at: http://www.distech-controls.com/en/us/system-architecture/.  The ERS Test DDC System has over 800 monitoring and control points trended at 1-minute sampling interval on a server with EC-NetAX Supervisor software. The DDC system has remote monitoring capability which allows access and controls of the ERS Test System via a compact, embedded controller/server platform (EC-BOS-6). The direct digital controllers utilized by the ERS Test DDC system are the ECB-650, 450, 350, 253, 203, and 103 microprocessor-based programmable controllers. The ECB series controllers can be custom programed using EC-gfx program as graphical programming interface, and are Open-to-Wireless™ ready when paired with the Wireless Receiver, work with a variety of wireless battery-less sensors and switches. We are currently also working on integrating the VOLTTRONTM platform into the ERS DDC system.\nThe ERS Test System is a perfect real-world platform for testing and validating advanced building sensors and control technologies such as smart sensors, plug and play systems, AFDD, etc. More information about Energy Resource Station and its capabilities can be \nfound at: http://www.iowaenergycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ERS-Technical-Description-2015-v1.pdf. The ERS Test System HVAC plan is shown in the figure below\n"]
["Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory","Jessica Granderson","1 Cyclotron Rd, MS 90-3111, Berkeley CA 94720 ","JGranderson@lbl.gov","510-486-6792","National Laboratory","a. Commercial and residential windows and glazing systems\nb. Building performance simulation; occupant behavior modeling, data models and analytics\nc. Energy use of electronics, lighting, and networks\n","a. Commercial and residential Windows and glazing systems - LBNL has served as DOE’s “Core” RD&D lab for Windows and Glazing Systems for over 30 years, addressing all aspects window efficiency solutions, from thin film coatings, to glazings, to windows to integrated façade systems with expertise in: 1) advanced materials, 2) optical and thermal test facilities, both lab and field, and 3) simulation models allowing prediction of product properties and annual energy impacts.\nb. LBNL is one of the founding developers of EnergyPlus, and has been the leader in simulation tools development and application for last 40 years. We have strong expertise in occupant behavior: (1) behavior data mining, (2) behavior stochastic modeling, (3) simulation to quantify impact of occupant behavior on building performance, (4) XML schema obXML to represent occupant behavior in buildings, and (5) behavior modeling tool obFMU to co-simulate with EnergyPlus\nc. The Electronics, Lighting, and Networks Group at LBNL offers capabilities in advanced design and power management; internet connected thermostats; communication protocols and connected devices; energy consumption and management of plug loads; lighting controls, and: user interfaces. We have particular interests in interoperability standards for sensors and energy-using devices in buildings, and user interface standards to better satisfy user needs. We also address innovations that can be achieved through Local Power Distribution.\n"]
["Louisiana State University","Chao Wang","242 Old Forestry Building, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803","chaowang@lsu.edu","225-578-9175","University","3D as-is geometry modeling for existing buildings","• Apply non-invasive imaging and laser scanning technologies to create as-is building envelope model\n• Automatically extract semantic information from as-is model and convert to gbXML model\n• Life cycle analysis\n• Real-time sensor data embedded Building information Model (BIM) creation\n"]
["Michigan Technological University","Sumit Paudyal","1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, 49931, USA","sumitp@mtu.edu","906-487-2186","University","building-to-grid integration, Demand Response from buildings, aggregation of building loads for grid applications.","Modeling, Optimization, HIL testing, open source software needed for the building energy management and grid applications"]
["Missouri University of Science and Technology","Mehdi Ferdowsi","301 W. 16th Street, Rolla, MO 65409","ferdowsi@mst.edu","573-341-4552","Higher Education","Solar Houses, Microgrid, Power Electronics, Smart Living","Missouri S&T has many researchers focusing on microgrid and smart living"]
["National Fire Protection Association, Inc. (NFPA)","Barbara Maskell","1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169-9101","bmaskell@nfpa.org ","617-984-7236","Not for profit, ANSI accredited, codes and standards developer","Founded in 1896, NFPA is a global, nonprofit organization devoted to eliminating death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards. The association delivers information and knowledge through more than 300 consensus codes and standards, research, training, education, outreach and advocacy; and by partnering with others who share an interest in furthering the NFPA mission. NFPA's membership totals more than 65,000 individuals around the world.","We help save lives and reduce loss with information, knowledge and passion. Our information and knowledge comes in many forms:\n• Support for the development, adoption and enforcement of our 300 codes and standards\n• Research and data analysis\n• Technical training and certification\n• Public education\n• Outreach and advocacy \nNFPA brings collective passion to its work with a dedicated staff who come to work every day to save lives; some 6,000 volunteers who sit on our technical committees and provide expertise and wisdom; 65,000 members, and other stakeholders, who use our material and carry the messages to help save lives. Our International Operations department works to develop and increase global awareness of NFPA, its mission and expertise by promoting worldwide use of NFPA’s information and knowledge.\nCodes and Standards - NFPA’s 300 codes and standards are designed to minimize the risk and effects of fire by establishing criteria for building, processing, design, service, and installation in the United States, as well as many other countries. Its more than 200 technical code- and standard- development committees are comprised of over 6,000 volunteer seats. Volunteers vote on proposals and revisions in a process that is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). National Fire Codes® Subscription Service All Access provides individual subscribers with online access to every NFPA code and standard, Handbooks and Annotated Editions. \nNFPA provides free online access to its codes and standards. \nPublic education - NFPA devotes much of its efforts to protecting lives and property through education. The organization provides many resources for fire, electrical, and life-safety instructions. Our public education programs include: \n• Fire Prevention Week in October, a national campaign for which NFPA has been the official sponsor since 1922;\n• Remembering When®, a program developed to address the leading causes of injuries and death among older adults;    \n• Learn Not to Burn®, a program developed to address the leading causes of injuries and death among children;\n• Activities associated with Sparky the Fire Dog®, the official mascot of NFPA.  \n• Advocacy -NFPA oversees the operation of advocacy campaigns dedicated to increasing fire safety and awareness, including the Fire Sprinkler Initiative, the Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes, and the Alliance to Stop Consumer Fireworks. \nProfessional development - Led by NFPA staff and other nationally recognized experts, our seminars provide insight into the meaning, intent, and proper application of fire and electrical safety codes. NFPA administers professional certification programs including, but not limited to, Certified Fire Protection Specialist, Certified Fire Inspector, and Certified Fire Plans Examiner. Each June, the NFPA Conference & Expo fosters the exchange of ideas among Association members and other attendees. New and revised NFPA codes and standards are also discussed and voted upon at these meetings. NFPA develops dozens of texts, guides, and other materials that target firefighter and other first responder safety and health. \nInformation resource - NFPA is the premier resource for fire data analysis, research, and analysis. This data helps guide educational outreach, support the work of NFPA Technical Committees, and frames the fire-loss picture for organizations, the media, and the general public.\nThe Fire Analysis and Research division produces a wide range of annual reports and special studies on all aspects of the nation's fire problem. NFPA conducts investigations of fire incidents of technical interest to its constituents, including its Technical Committees and the broader fire community. The Fire Protection Research Foundation plans, manages, and communicates research in support of the development of NFPA's codes and standards and educational and public-awareness efforts. The Charles S. Morgan Library supports research and maintains the NFPA archives. It is one of the largest fire science libraries in the world.\nPublications\n• See a full list of NFPA's publications.\n"]
["National Renewable Energy Laboratory","Robert Tenent","16253 Denver West Parkway Golden, CO 80401","robert.tenent@nrel.gov","303-384-6775","Federally Funded Research and Development Center (U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 48, Part 35, Section 35.017)","Systems integration of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies","The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) houses multiple research teams that support the development and commercialization of advanced building technologies.  The NREL program draws from broad expertise across a multi-disciplinary laboratory focused exclusively on energy efficiency and renewable energy.  The NREL effort includes teams focused on commercial and residential building integration and maintains expertise across the full technology development spectrum ranging from fundamental materials science and development to technology integration focused at the full building and community levels.  Specific areas of expertise include new materials discovery and development, prototyping and testing, product performance and durability assessment as well as technology transfer to external partners.  "]
["New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD)- Energy Conservation and Management Division (ECMD)","Jeremy Lewis","1220 St. Francis Dr., Santa Fe, NM 87505","jeremy.lewis@state.nm.us","505-476-3319","State Government Agency","Renewable Energy, Alternative Fuels and Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Efficient Transportation.","The Energy Conservation and Management Division (ECMD) develops and implements effective clean energy programs to promote environmental and economic sustainability for New Mexico and its citizens. EMNRD oversees and implements three programs in clean energy, the: 1) Renewable Energy Program, 2) Energy Efficiency in Buildings Program, and 3) Clean Fuels and Efficient Transportation Program. These programs are implemented through a combination of education and outreach, tax credit certifications and clean energy projects. Through these efforts, EMNRD encourages public and private organizations to use energy more efficiently and economically and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. In addition, with these energy improvements New Mexico benefits from economic development, upgraded infrastructure and jobs created. EMNRD has achieved success in:\n•Helping to make residential-scale solar systems more affordable through the Solar Market Development Tax Credit for residential solar systems;\n•Supporting utility-scale wind, biomass, and solar projects through the state’s Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit. This in turn assists utilities in meeting the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard goals;\n•Supporting new policies, programs and technologies through high level exchanges made at Renewable Energy Storage Task Force and Energy Efficiency Working Group meetings;\n•Incentivizing private sector design and construction of energy efficient, sustainable buildings for both commercial and residential use through the Sustainable Building Tax Credit;\n•Implementing a Whole-building Investments for Sustainable Efficiency (WISE) program for state government facilities; and\n•Supporting the use of Energy Savings Performance Contracts for state agencies, school districts, universities, and expanding this support to local governments through a Local Energy Efficiency Performance program.\nAdditionally, EMNRD has experience acting as fiscal agents\n"]
["Nidec Motor Corporation","Dave Bolton","8050 W. Florissant Ave., St. Louis, MO 63136","dave.bolton@nidec-motor.com","314-595-8375","Public company","High efficiency electric AC & DC motors & controls","Design, testing & manufacturing of high quality advanced, high efficiency motors and controls (integrated and remote) for all types of residential, commercial & industrial applications"]
["Nxegen, LLC","Agostino Dell'Oso","362 Industrial Park Rd., Middletown, CT  06457","Dell'OsoA@nxegen.com","860-613-7000","Technology-enabled energy services company, Software as a Service provider and building-to-grid technology integrator","Technology solutions for real-time load monitoring, energy analytics and load management to address energy economics, reliability and environmental concerns across facility meters and end points, BAS controls, utilities and ISOs","Software as a Service; facility-centric energy dashboards to demonstrate energy consumption and economics;  real-time energy analytics; building-to-grid interoperability and internet of things; Wireless EMS; Fault Detection Diagnostics; energy efficiency & demand response integration; end-point scheduling and control systems providing energy transaction management harnessing RT load data, weather data, utility pricing and reliability data; human-in-the-loop sensor and control systems; plug-and-play sensor systems; distributed system platform provider (DSPP) and distributed energy resource (DER) technology support"]
["Oklahoma State University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering","Daniel E. Fisher","218 Engineering North, Stillwater, OK 74078-5016","dfisher@okstate.edu","405-744-5900","Public land-grant University","Building and Environmental Thermal Systems – Focus on Building Simulation","Experience:\nOver 20 years of Energy+ HVAC system simulation and component model development\nFacilities:\nAir flow test lab, previously used for heat exchanger frosting research as well as for building measurements (e.g. visible and infrared radiation from lighting fixtures).\n"]
["Omaha Public Power District (OPPD)","Steve Sauer ","444 South 16th Street Mall, Omaha, NE 68102-2247","ssauer@oppd.com","402-636-3553","Public Power Utility ","OPPD’s electric utility operations expertise includes: energy development and production operations and maintenance across a range of energy generation resources; energy marketing through membership in the Southwest Power Pool; bulk electric grid and distribution systems construction, operations, protection, automation, monitoring, and maintenance; retail electric utility operations including curtailable load, demand side management and energy efficiency programs; and partnership development for the integration of customer facilities into the electrical system as well as for the offering of a variety of energy related products and services to our retail customers. Capabilities:  Operating since 1946, OPPD is a publicly owned, vertically integrated electric utility governed by an elected board of eight directors.  Headquarters in Omaha, NE, OPPD serves a 13-county, 5,000-square-mile service area and a population of approximately 799,000 people"]
["OPAL-RT Technologies Inc","Mr. Darcy La Ronde","1751 rue Richardson Suite 2525 Montreal, QC Canada H3K 1G6","darcy.laronde@opal-rt.com","514-935-2323 x299","technology","real time digital simulation / hardware-in-the-loop simulation","We produce test systems to help engineers develop, test and validate faster. Our unique technological approach integrates parallel, distributed computing with commercial-off-the-shelf technologies. Customers perform Rapid Control Prototyping, System Integration, and Hardware-in-the-Loop testing of electric drives, electronic controllers and power distribution networks in a variety of industries including automotive, aerospace, electric ships, power generation, rail, and industrial manufacturing."]
["Oregon State University","Nick AuYeung","103 Gleeson Hall\nSchool of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering\nOregon State University\nCorvallis, OR 97331\n","nick.auyeung@oregonstate.edu","541-737-3766","University (Public)","Thermochemical energy storage for heating/air conditioning, solar thermal energy, chemical heat pumps, process engineering, distributed chemical processing.","Interested in both fundamental and applied projects involving application of seasonal chemical energy storage for heating, cooling, and domestic hot water production.  Previous work has focused on high temperature solar thermochemical energy storage, with capabilities such as reaction kinetics and thermogravimetric experiments to develop energy storage materials.  We would like to extend the work to lower temperature chemical systems that are applicable to building technologies.  "]
["Panasonic Eco Solutions North America","Don Stevens","PO Box 398/1800 Pacific Avenue\nKeyport, WA  98345-0398\n","Don.Stevens@us.panasonic.com","360-908-7132","Manufacturer","IAQ, IEQ, Ventilation, HVAC, Controls, Integrated solutions, sensors","Panasonic has been the acknowledged North American leader in residential IAQ ventilation for over 22 years and a six-time awardee of recognition by EPA ENERGY STAR for Sustained Excellence, with our DC fans being recognized as the Most Efficient by EPA.  As we move to homes with lower HVAC demands, we want to integrate ASHRAE 62.2 ventilation with minisplit heat pump technology to provide a true HVAC solution for efficient houses.  We plan to develop a family of HVAC devices that provide heating and cooling, dehumidification, 62.2 ventilation, distribution, tempering, and filtration in a single integrated mechanical system using one outdoor unit.  We are developing control algorithms and communication strategies to address both ventilation and heat pump optimization based on the operation of all ventilation devices, occupancy, and weather.   A second phase could add domestic water heating using an upsized outdoor unit"]
["PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)","Patrick Murphy","3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304","patrick.murphy@parc.com","650-812-4025","R&D","a. Content-Centric Networking - Next-generation network architecture to solve challenges in content distribution scalability, mobility, and security.\nb. Innovation Services - Human-centered insights and ethnography to identify unmet needs, recommend practices that work, and create products and services that sell.\nc. Printed and Flexible Electronics - Materials characterization and device design to application development and full-system prototyping.\nd. Distributed Sensor Systems – Low-cost gas, chemical, and physical sensors, energy harvesting, printed batteries, wireless networking, flexible hybrid integration, data analysis\ne. Data Analytics - Deriving new opportunities from big data, including unstructured data, video and imagery.\nf. Optoelectronics and Optics - Custom solutions and prototyping services.\ng. Prototyping Services - Expertise and infrastructure to turn vision into reality.\nh. Contextual Intelligence - Anticipating needs and proactively delivering information from social and device networks\n","a. Summary: PARC is in the Business of Breakthroughs®. Practicing open innovation, PARC provides research services, technology, subject matter expertise, and IP to global Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agency partners. PARC creates new business options, accelerates time to market, augments internal capabilities, and reduces risk for clients. Since its inception in 1970 PARC has pioneered many technology platforms – from Ethernet and laser printing to the GUI and ubiquitous computing – and has enabled the creation of many industries.\nb. Capabilities in Topic areas of interest:\na. Topic 1, Open Topic for Energy Efficiency Solutions for Residential and Commercial Buildings \ni. Passive radiative cooling for commercial and residential buildings.\nii. Diagnostics and prognostics, light-weight HVAC diagnostics.\niii. Electrocaloric and thermoacustic cooling.\nb. Topic 2, Human-in-the-Loop Sensor & Control Systems\ni. Energy harvesting, low-cost distributed printed sensor systems.\nii. Affordable electro-optical sensors for building performance monitoring.\niii. Human-machine teaming for semi-autonomous control\niv. Networks for internet of things, beyond IP.\nv. Ethnography, contextual intelligence, and human-systems integration to improve adoption and effectiveness of technologies and behaviors.\nc. Topic 4, Plug-and Play-Sensor\ni. Energy harvesting, low-cost distributed printed sensor systems.\nii. Sensing and algorithms for commissioning, and dynamic and continuous re-commissioning.\n"]
["Purdue University","Qingyan \"Yan\" Chen","585 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907","yanchen@purdue.edu","765-496-7562","University","Air distribution, energy analysis, HVAC systems","Study of airflow in and around buildings by computational fluid dynamics and experimental measurements; Energy analysis for buildings with stratified air distribution, natural ventilation, and infiltration; Airflow modeling with reduced-order model for control;  Purdue University has a living lab consisting of four 24-person offices with advanced HVAC systems and control and two indoor-air-quality environmental chambers"]
["Rochester Institute of Technology","Eric Williams","111 Lomb Memorial Drive. Rochester, NY, 14623","exwgis@rit.edu","585-475-7211","University","Building energy simulation; thermal comfort modeling; heterogeneity of occupant behavior; open-source building monitoring and control software","A LEED Platinum building used as a living laboratory for energy studies. The building has advanced sensors and controls, photovoltaic array, battery energy storage, energy recovery unit, geothermal wells, and fuel cell. \n- Integration of Volttron platform and Web-ctrl for energy optimization.  \n- Benefit-cost analyses of residential energy technologies personalized to occupant preference and behavior.\n- Research team with experience in building simulation, energy system analysis, HVAC, software development, LEED, advanced data-analysis.\n- Software development of applications to manage occupant-building interactions to reduce energy consumption.\n"]
["Rutgers Center for Green Building","Clinton J Andrews","33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901","CJA1@RUTGERS.EDU","848-932-2808","university research center","applied social science ","post-occupancy evaluation of buildings, occupant behavior simulation modeling, survey research, focus group research, building codes, policy analysis, urban planning, program evaluation, training"]
["Seventhwave (formerly Energy Center of Wisconsin)","Dr. Douglas Ahl, Research Director","749 University Row, Suite 320\n Madison, WI 53515\n","dahl@seventhwave.org","608-210-7116","Nonprofit ","Geothermal energy saving technologies\n2.  Commercial roof-top units\n3.  Demand control ventilation systems \n4.  Variable refrigerant flow systems \n5.  Commercial office equipment energy use\n6.  Lighting controls and task tuning\n7.  Residential heating and cooling systems\n8.  Field tests of plug and play smart connectivity devices\n9.  Residential energy use\n","Applied research to improve performance of building systems\n2.  Independent technology assessment\n3.  Field monitoring and verification\n4.  In-situ performance testing of energy efficient technologies\n5.  Product performance measurement\n6.  Energy modeling of commercial buildings\n7.  Daylight modeling and lighting controls\n"]
["SmartTurtle CxE","Kwabena Okrah (Koby)","219 Harpers Way, Frederick, MD 21702","kwabena.okrah@smartturtlecxe.com","410-961-3510","Privately Held","Energy Efficiency Software, Customer Engagement Platform, Utilities, Home Energy Management Software, Reliability Optimization Software, Power Quality Assurance, Smart Grid, Renewable Energy","The SmartTurtle CxE (Customer Experience Enhancer) is a proprietary solution that addresses issues across the full value chain of the power sector from energy supply through power transmission and then to distribution of electricity to the end user. It meets the needs of utility executives, its engineers, its customer support professionals and most importantly, its consumers by providing real time energy insights that provide power usage transparency to arm them with information and tools to make targeted and timely decisions that cut costs and improve the customer experience."]
["SprayRock Building Systems LLC","Rob Stehlin","7980 SW Jack James Dr.  Stuart, Fl.  34997","Rob@SprayRock.com","818-674-7947","For-Profit Manufacture","SprayRock Building Systems is a manufacture of sustainable, energy efficient and extreme weather resistant (fortified) building envelopes (from contractor kits to complete shells).","We manufacture, CAD to CAM, fully customizable, high performance building shells (single family, multi-family and commercial) up to 7 stories that provide superior benefits over traditional building methods. Here are just some of the benefits gained using the SprayRock system:\n\nSAFETY\n• Extreme Weather Resistant building\no Hurricane Resistant -  Miami/Dade NOA 250 mph winds\no Tornado / Hail Resistant\no Earthquake Resistant\no Fire Resistant\no Bullet Resistant Walls\n\nEFFICIENCY\n• Extreme Environment Resistant Building\no High-Performance Thermal Enclosure\no Ultra-Efficient Wall Insulation - exterior walls up to R34 \no Continuous Exterior Thermal Blanket Construction\no Ultra-Efficient Attic Insulation\no Comprehensive Draft Protection\no Termite Resistant\no Rot Resistant\no Reduced maintenance, insurance and energy bills\n• Off site computer manufactured framing - Erection time half that of normal construction methods\n• Pre-Cut electric, plumbing, central vacuum and pest control for fast erection and installation\n\nHEALTH\n• Non-allergenic \n• Noise Resistant \n• Mold Resistant\n• No VOC’s\n\nENVIRONMENT\n• Sustainable - recycled American steel, recycled XPS and recycled concrete\n• LEED certifiable\n• Eco-Friendly - superior shell for Zero Energy Ready Home    ZERH\n"]
["State University of New York, University at Buffalo","John Hall","318 Jarvis Hall\nBuffalo, NY 14260, USA\n","johnhall@buffalo.edu","716-645-5946","Public University/Research Institution","My technical expertise is in complex system analysis and simulation, comprehensive development methodologies, multidisciplinary decision-making and optimization, wind energy conversion, small wind systems, renewable energy systems, and energy efficient products","My research develops design methods for complex systems, including wind turbines.  It has focused on multidisciplinary frameworks that combine mechanical design and control objectives.  Exploration of this area has identified interdisciplinary behavior, which is currently not well understood, and that can be leveraged to optimize the performance of the system, with respect to energy production and component life.   Other research focuses on the architecture and fusion of simulation models in diverse technical areas, such as aerodynamics, solid mechanics, and control, to establish fundamental relationships, optimization methods, and design tools for wind energy"]
["Sustainable Engineering Group","Amalia Hicks, Ph.D.","7475 Hubbard Ave., Suite 201, Middleton, WI 53562","mailto:ahicks@sustaineng.com","608-836-4488 x22","Small business","Applied Energy Efficiency Research, Occupant Comfort Assessment, Market Research, Statistical Data Analysis, Energy Modeling, Commercial Building Commissioning and Re-commissioning, Geothermal Design, Measurement and Verification, Energy Audits and Strategic Energy Planning, Renewable Energy Feasibility Studies, Data Visualization","Sustainable Engineering Group is a consulting and research firm composed of individuals who are dedicated to promoting energy conservation in built environments.  We possess a diverse array of skills, ranging from applied experience in HVAC design, construction, quality control and optimization to energy systems modeling, statistical data analysis, market research, and field-based assessment of advanced technologies.  Our significant experience in the field with buildings, systems, operators, and occupants is supported by our solid command of research methodologies to provide a practical approach to energy efficiency solutions.\n\nSEG has performed energy efficiency research for the U.S. Department of Energy, the Minnesota Department of Commerce, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and Wisconsin Focus on Energy.  This prior experience gives SEG the advantage of having a realistic sense of project scope, cost, and timescales when conceptualizing and planning new technology-focused investigations.  \n\nOur Research Director’s technical and management skills are informed and guided by our team’s extensive mechanical field experience, producing a powerful combination of applied knowledge and research expertise.  Our hands-on building experience enables us to ask the right questions, and our research background imparts us with the skills required to answer those questions in an accurate, timely, well-conveyed fashion.  This powerful combination gives us the tools we need to make valuable contributions to energy efficiency research.\n"]
["The Levy Partnership, Inc","Emanuel Levy","2205 Broadway, Suite 2200, New York, NY 10019","elevy@levypartnership.com","212-496-0800 x140","For profit, architectural/engineering/building research firm","Residential and Commercial buildings","Leading national firm conducting a wide range of building science research, product development, analysis and evaluation, whole building design and testing, LEED, ENERGY STAR and other efficiency program development and implementation"]
["The Research Foundation for SUNY, on behalf of SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s (SUNY Poly) Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE)","Contact 1: Dr. Pradeep Haldar; Interim Dean of the College of Nanoscale Engineering and Technology Innovation | Contact 2: Dr. Michael Carpenter, Associate Professor of Nanoengineering","257 Fuller Road | Albany, NY 12203","phaldar@sunypoly.edu | mcarpenter@sunypoly.edu","Dr. Haldar: 518-437-8684\nDr. Carpenter: 518-437-8667","University/Higher Education","• Smart building energy management systems\n• Responsive sensors\n• Net-zero energy performance\n• Plug-and-play chemical sensors\n","Conventional buildings management systems focus on HVAC system and comfort control often using only temperature feedback information from interior space, outside air and distribution fluids. SUNY Poly’s activities on next generation Smart Building control integrates more forms of information including occupancy, weather, on-site generation, peak demand, personnel location, plug-and-play sensors, etc. to make more holistic and energy-aware decisions on how the building provides occupant comfort and building functionality. Work at SUNY Poly’s CNSE has focused on achieving optimal performance that requires continuous attention to building controls, performance monitoring and the role of occupants. \n\nMoreover, demonstration projects at SUNY Poly’s CNSE address automation, monitoring, communication and control integration technologies are key to the monitoring, analysis, fault detection, optimization and predictive controls of next generation energy-aware commercial building operations. Smarter building control systems are utilized that provide optimization of on-site generations, real-time peak load management, responding to dynamic energy prices, net-zero-energy performance monitoring, and Smart Grid interactions such as automated demand response. \n\nSUNY Poly CNSE demonstrates how emerging technologies and systems integration represent key building blocks for greater coordination of energy efficient smart building operation. This level of integration is on display at SUNY Poly CNSE’s new Zero Energy Nano (ZEN) building. The 400,000 square foot ZEN building serves as a test bed for next generation building control strategies as well as being able to generate much of the energy it uses annually from solar and fuel cells.\n\nPotentiometric chemical gas sensors for smart building control and optimization are also being developed at SUNY Poly’s CNSE. Their development is aimed at the following design features: 1) the high cost of providing an external reference for sensors is minimized, 2) miniaturized sensors at a fraction of the costs of current sensors can be manufactured and 3) built in multi-functionality on a common sensor platform. Towards this goal, we have incorporated a plug-and-play design feature within these sensors so that they can be used for detection of O2, CO2 and other air quality features for smart building control systems. These sensors are produced using semiconductor industry-based manufacturing practices, and in doing so will reduce the overall size of the sensor package by ~3 orders of magnitude. The plug-and-play sensor team has over 35 years of combined experience in the design, development and testing of chemical sensors which has resulted in 100 publications and 16 patents as well as over 40 years combined experience in the design and fabrication of MEMS manufacturable devices leading to 58 patents. Infrastructure capabilities for these sensor programs encompasses the SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center of Excellence (STC). The STC is comprised of a 120,000 square foot manufacturing and commercialization facility with over 35,000 ft2 of cleanroom space for state-of-the-art MEMS fabrication and microelectronics packaging. The Center is certified ISO9001:2008 and houses over $50 million worth of microsystems equipment installed and operating.\n\nSUNY Polytechnic Institute is New York's globally recognized, high-tech educational ecosystem, formed from the merger of the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and SUNY Institute of Technology. SUNY Poly offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the emerging disciplines of nanoscience and nanoengineering, as well as cutting-edge nanobioscience and nanoeconomics programs at its Albany location and undergraduate and graduate degrees in technology, including engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, and the engineering technologies; professional studies, including business, communication, and nursing; and arts and sciences, including natural sciences, mathematics, humanities, and social sciences at its Utica/Rome location. As the world's most advanced, university-driven research enterprise, SUNY Poly boasts more than $43 billion in high-tech investments, over 300 corporate partners, and maintains a statewide footprint. The 1.3 million-square-foot Albany NanoTech megaplex is home to more than 4,000 scientists, researchers, engineers, students, faculty, and staff, in addition to Tech Valley High School.\n"]
["The University of Texas at Dallas","Dr. Yaoyu Li","800 West Campbell Road, EC38, Richardson, TX 75080-3021","yaoyu.li@utdallas.edu","972-883-4698","Non-profit State Institution of Higher Education ","Controls and Dynamic Simulation Modeling of HVAC Systems","Dr. Yaoyu Li is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests lie in control, optimization, modeling and monitoring of mechanical and electro-mechanical systems, with primary emphasis on energy systems, including building HVAC, wind, solar and electrified vehicles. \nFor building HVAC research, Dr. Li’s group have two primary focuses in the past decade: i) model-free self-optimizing control for energy efficient operation using extremum seeking control (ESC) schemes; and ii) dynamic simulation modeling with Modelica. Primarily through collaboration with Johnson Controls, he and his co-workers have investigated ESC applications to various HVAC systems, with both simulation and experimental studies, from air-side economizer, single- and multiple-chiller chilled water plant, variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system, CO2 and hybrid ground-source heat pump. Their work has led to 16 papers published or accepted by archived journals.\nDr. Li’s research lab is equipped with both experimental and simulation capabilities. Two experimental setups have been developed at UT-Dallas: one is a direct expansion based air handling unit system, and the other is a single-split ductless air conditioning system. Modelica based licensed simulation platforms, including Dymola and relevant libraries, are available on the desktop computers Dell T-7500 workstation\n"]
["The University of Texas at San Antonio","Bing Dong","Department of Mechanical Engineering, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, 78249","bing.dong@utsa.edu","210-458-8189","University","occupancy behavior modeling, optimal controls and smart building systems","The Built Environment Science and Technology (BEST) Lab at UTSA is founded and directed by Dr. Dong. BEST lab was previously involved in DoD ESTCP and DoE projects on whole building energy diagnostics. Currently, BEST lab is leading an international effort on occupancy behavior modeling in buildings, called IEA EBC Annex 66 project. It involves more than 20 countries and 55 institutes. In addition, BEST lab is actively working with local utility companies and industries to make buildings more energy efficient"]
["University of Cincinnati","Julian Wang","791 Baldwin Hall, 2850 Campus Way, Cincinnati, Ohio  45221-0071","Julian.Wang@UC.edu","513-556-5398","University","Windows and Envelope, Occupant-centered Smart Buildings, Building Performance-based Design and Analysis","Based in the University of Cincinnati, we are an interdisciplinary research group consisting of faculty, researchers, and technicians across departments including the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems, and School of Architecture and Interior design. Our aim in integrating these disciplines is to transcend traditional boundaries and stimulate joint research that will enhance our understanding of building energy efficiency and sustainable built environment. We are particularly interested and plan to submit proposals in the following two topics of the BENEFIT 2016 program. Our capabilities are also included in the two topics.\n\n-Topic 1: research on dynamic building envelopes and parametric energy simulation, transparent thermal insulation design, modeling, experiments, and simulation, and thermoelectric energy harvesting systems embedded in building envelopes.\n\n-Topic 2: research on real-time occupant-centered sensing and processing technology, indoor human activities and behaviors modeling, simulation, and recognition for environmental controls, and advanced energy simulation on real-time interaction between human and building systems\n"]
["University of Colorado Denver"," David C. Mays, P.E., Ph.D.","Department of Civil Engineering\n Campus Box 113\n PO Box 173364\n Denver, CO 80217-3364\n","david.mays@ucdenver.edu","303-352-3933","Public University","• Building Energy Research\n• Residential and Commercial Buildings\n• Green Roofs—Energy, Ecology, and Hydrology\n","The Green Roof Team at the University of Colorado Denver brings together experts in hydrology, energy, and landscape architecture. David Mays is an associate professor of civil engineering and an expert in permeability and clogging in natural and engineered porous media (http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~dmays/research.html). Peter Jenkins is a professor of mechanical engineering with extensive experience in energy systems (http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~pjenkins/research.html). Leila Tolderlund is a research associate in landscape architecture and a recognized expert in the design, implementation, and maintenance of green roofs. She is a LEED accredited professional and an accredited Green Roof Professional (http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/facultystaff/directories/Pages/Individual%20Pages_LA/Tolderlund_Leila.aspx)."]
["University of Kansas","Hongyi Cai","1530 West 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045","hycai@ku.edu","785-864-2597","University","Building Illumination Systems, Solid-State Lighting, Daylighting, High Dynamic Range Imaging, Building HVAC&R Systems, Energy Efficient Building Enclosures, Building Energy Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Advanced Building Insulation Systems, Indoor Air Quality, Environmental Control Systems, Environmental Health, Aerodynamics, Vortex Dynamics, Turbulent Flows, and Biofluid Dynamics","Computer simulations and laboratory & field tests in building illumination and HVAC&R systems and energy efficient buildings and environments.  Research facilities include a Building Mechanical and Energy Systems Laboratory, a Building Thermal and Material Sciences Laboratory, a Lighting Research Laboratory, a Sustainable Building Laboratory, a Design-Build Center (63,000-square-foot, open-span building), Computer laboratories, Woodworking and metal shops (6,400-square-foot), and a Center for design research"]
["University of Nebraska – Lincoln","David Yuill, Ph.D., P.E.","University of Nebraska - Lincoln\n104E Peter Kiewit Institute \n1110 S. 67th Street\nOmaha, NE 68182-0816\n","DYUILL@UNL.EDU","402-554-4176","University/Higher Education","The UNL team has specific expertise in three key links in the energy chain: electrical grid, electrical power distribution in buildings, and building energy efficiency.\nElectrical power systems: smart grids; distributed generation; reliability; maintenance optimization; power system simulation; infrastructure survivability and vulnerability; battery electric vehicles (BEV); BEV-grid integration. Buildings: advanced heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems; energy modeling; retro-commissioning; supervisory control; automated fault detection and diagnosis; indoor environmental quality; thermal science.\nWithin each of these areas we have extensive experience in designing and conducting effective research, and in dissemination of knowledge through teaching, demonstration, and outreach\n","Mechanical systems: We focus on development of improved approaches to providing buildings that operated efficiently and provide excellent indoor environmental quality for their occupants. Our research helps feed our educational activities at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Some current research focuses on: the effects of air-conditioner operating faults; advanced methods of detecting and diagnosing operating faults in supermarkets; advanced supervisory control strategies for equipment-level HVAC system control; economic assessment of fault impacts; ice thermal storage system optimal control; economic analysis of air-side economizers including faults; and data center heat recovery.\nWe have two thermal systems laboratories. One contains a set of psychrometric test chambers constructed in 2015, capable of testing HVAC systems up to 10 tons, following appropriate test standards. A second lab contains a full building HVAC system. This system has a variable air volume (VAV) air handling unit, a chiller, cooling tower, boiler, pumps, a duct distribution system with VAV boxes, and air diffusers. The entire system is contained within one large laboratory space so that modifications and experiments might be easily carried out.\nWe also have equipment that can be used to conduct experimental research in existing buildings. This includes airflow, pressure and temperature measuring devices, data logging equipment, air sampling equipment, and various monitors of indoor air quality measures. In addition we have a gas chromatograph device for conducting highly precise tracer gas tests using sulfur hexafluoride, and sampling and dispersal systems for the tracer gas. \nElectrical systems: We have an active research group focused on electric power systems from component level up to system level for analyzing and evaluating real-world performance. Our research is focused on application of probability and stochastic processes, modeling and simulation, reliability evaluation, maintenance optimization, and integration of distributed generation systems and battery electric vehicle (BEV) to the grid. Specifically developing models and algorithms to evaluate the reliability of power systems by maximizing reliability and minimizing cost while considering a host of constraints including environmental factors. \nFor distributed generation (DG) systems (including wind, solar, gas, diesel gensets, and BEV) we have the tools and laboratory to accurately predict their impacts on power systems. This includes modeling and simulation of DGs as stand-alone, or their integration into the grid, development and analysis of control strategies for smart distribution systems of the grid complying with grid codes and IEEE-1547 standard. \nWe have an active Energy Laboratory for the Built Environment (ELBE). ELBE is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for the purpose of demonstrating renewable energy alternatives and energy consumption and conservation research.  The lab houses test equipment that supports the design, testing, and development of innovations related to electrical systems in the built environment. Furthermore, ELBE is equipped with visual display tools and prototype boards that are used to discuss energy conservation and consumption to elementary, middle, and high school students and provide for hands-on tools for the purpose of teaching. \nOur power system laboratory is equipped with modern protective relays and test sets for simulation of power system protection as well as a host of power system simulation packages for power system planning, design, analysis, control, and operation\n"]
["University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)","Kenneth L.  Hansen P.E., AVC Facilities; Assistant Professor COPH ","987100 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-7100","hansenkl@unmc.edu","(402) 559-5301 , Cell: (402) 630-9381","University/Higher Education","Healthcare, research, education, operations, building automation, energy and HVAC optimization, energy efficiency, energy management, engineering research, building science, utility management, peak reduction, energy curtailment, central and distributed generation of chilled water, hot water and steam, integrated system analysis, HVAC design and optimization, and intersystem interdependence optimization, availability, reliability and redundancy of systems","The UNMC campus is one of four campuses in the University of Nebraska system, the only public, land grant University system in Nebraska.  UNMC is an Academic Medical Center consisting of approximately 7 million sq ft. The system is served from two central utility plants with 20.8 MW of normal power, 16 MW of emergency power, 330 kpph of steam, 19,000 tons of chilled water, and 50 mbtu of heating hot water. UNMC has an outstanding record of energy utilization and efficiency improvement as demonstrated by a 30% reduction in overall energy consumption and usage on campus in the last 5 years. Campus energy reduction was accomplished while adding more than 1 million s.f. of campus space without major renovation to campus building envelopes, primary equipment or lighting systems. These accomplishments were achieved using 11 million dollars of 2009 ARRA funds along with more than 11 million dollars of matching funds from the University. These initiatives drove the employment of 8 fulltime energy engineers and technicians on campus.\n\nImplementation of a campus wide replacement of the building automation systems over the past 5 years allowed the integration control of both building and plant systems. Energy reductions were achieved through applications of state of the art HVAC building technologies and utility energy management design along with customized approaches for optimal operation of the system. The upgrade of the building automation system allowed implementation of control logic developed both commercially and in-house to significantly enhance building efficiency and occupant comfort.  Reconfiguration of the campus chilled water system, utilization of specialty components in the control systems, programming with the latest technology, and utilizing a trained and highly engaged workforce, UNMC continuously uses the campus to demonstrate the significant energy reduction possible by deploying an integrated system control strategy.\nAs a public institution focused on education and research, we have created a “living laboratory for energy efficiency”.  The strength of our program is based on the real life working application of the technologies that we have developed, applied and continually refined for the diverse building applications available on a university campus.  Utilizing a philosophy of building and plant integration has lead us to developing some unique strategies and technological advances that have been highly successful in reducing energy consumption. UNMC is highly engaged with the local electric utility to not only reduce overall campus demand, but to also actively curtail during peak demand periods. Utilizing smart grid principles at the central utility plant level, thermal storage techniques at the distribution and building level, and demand limiting curtailment techniques at the air handler and VAV level, UNMC has developed demand control and energy curtailment processes that have provided substantial energy reductions. \n\nUNMC is strategically positioned to stand up a Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Demonstration Site moving forward. We have targeted $10 to $15 million dollars of matching investment to further deploy the following technologies within the building and plant smart grid system to demonstrate the major potential advantages of these type of integrated systems.\n1. Implement new advanced lighting technologies throughout the campus along with system control integration. This includes the use of LED technology, smart sensors, light harvesting and demand limiting control.\n2. Incorporation of 2 to 4 MW of base solar generation integrated into the smart electric grid that already exists on campus.\n3. Implement chill water storage on campus to further reduce electric demand.\n4. Expand the weather forecast optimization to demonstrate the success on campus for preheating and precooling the structure as it relates to peak demand management.\n5. Engage the electric utility to further optimize communication technology to design new rates in order to minimize system costs.\n6. Expand and upgrade the electrical control and monitoring system on campus to enhance the existing smart grid application.\n7. The University of Nebraska’s College of Engineering is home to one of the nation’s few engineering degree programs focused strictly on the science of buildings through the Architectural Engineering Program and further through a strong collaborative effort with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. A main focus of interest is to drive the engineering education and research program curriculum from the classroom and laboratories directly to the field of application and proof through use.\n8. Implement an ongoing training program to educate building and plant operators to increase the success in sustaining building and plant efficiencies of complex systems.  \n9. At its April, 2015 meeting, the Board of Regents approved the establishment of the Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCELSM) to be constructed at the UNMC campus in Omaha. Intent is to utilize this facility to enhance the training and operation of complex building and plant systems through virtual reality based education to reach and sustain optimal operations through excellence in education, design and operations in the future.\n In summary, UNMC has the applied technical capability, demonstrated experience, “living lab” facilities, research affiliations, educational focus, leadership capabilities and institutional support to be a significant partner in the anticipated Building Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovative Technologies (BENEFIT)-2016 program. \n"]
["University of Nevada, Mackay School of Earth Science and Engineering","George Danko, Ph.D., D.Sc.\nProfessor\n","1664 N. Virginia Str.\nReno, NV 89557\nMS173\n","danko@unr.edu","775-784-4284","Education, land-grant university","• Numerical modeling of flow, heat, moisture and contaminant transport processes\n• Process control and automation \n","• Building heating/cooling calculations;\n• Ventilation, heating, cooling, air conditioning analysis and design with high-performance numerical models;\n• Thermal and humidity, and ventilation analysis in covered, buried, or subsurface facilities;\n• Heating and cooling of facilities in natural geo-environment\n"]
["University of Southern California","Joon-Ho Choi","850 West 37th Street, WAH #204, Los Angeles, CA  90089","joonhoch@usc.edu","213-740-4576","Higher Education","Bio-Sensing Adaptive Environmental Control, Human-Building Integration, Smart Building Control Infrastructure, Environmental Comfort and Work Productivity, Thermal Comfort, Indoor Environmental Quality, Building Performance and Diagnostics, Intelligent Building Façade, Comprehensive Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Net-Zero Energy Building","- Development of a human-centered environmental control by utilizing the human body’s biological signals for enhancing thermal, visual, and air quality conditions; \n- Development of an occupant-centered environmental control by utilizing mobile and crowd-sourcing technologies;\n- Data mining and analysis of building-occupant’s thermal preferences and comfort for a real-time control in a room/zone level; \n- Data-driven building thermal environment control; \n- Computer-vision based building energy performance modeling;\n- High-efficiency workplace indoor environmental quality (IEQ) management and design;\n- Climate-responsive environmental control for a net zero energy building  \n- The USC Human-Building Integration (HBI) Research Group has an environmental chamber equipped with advanced data acquisition systems, including wearable sensors and IEQ measurement devices, and dedicated HVAC and lighting systems\n"]
["Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)","Dr. Hamid Arastoopour, WISER Director and Henry R. Linden Professor of Engineering","10 W. 35th Street, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL  60616","arastoopour@iit.edu","312-567-3038","University","IIT WISER's Sustainable Built Environment Team represents a strong interdisciplinary partnership among architecture, engineering, design, and business faculty with expertise in fundamental research, practical applications, and conceptual models in three core areas: solar and wind energy; energy efficiency, conservation, and storage; and environmental issues.  ","The Sustainable Built Environment Team was established at IIT WISER to lead the development of a new interdisciplinary paradigm with a vision toward the most efficient and smart buildings with the minimum energy  grid requirement. The research goals of the IIT WISER Sustainable Built Environment Team are to: 1) achieve maximum possible renewable-energy generation, including wind, solar, and geothermal, for tall and wide-span buildings at their sites; 2) design the most efficient buildings by minimizing energy and water consumption, and waste; and 3) make environmentally safe buildings with the lowest carbon footprint—both in operation and construction"]
["Whole Building Systems","M. Dennis Knight, PE","PO Box 1845 Mt. Pleasant SC 29465","dknight@wholebuildingsystems.com","843-437-3647","Privately owned LLC","Mechanical Engineering","Whole Building Systems, LLC (WBS), established in 2010, is a best in class high performance building consultancy specializing in the strategic energy management, Commissioning, Retro Commissioning, Energy Audits, Energy Modeling, and MEP design of commercial buildings and their energy using systems. WBS’ consultants are thought leaders and subject matter experts with backgrounds in engineering, design, construction, strategic planning, energy modeling and product development.  WBS uses new technologies and analytic tools such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and process change strategies to assist clients in improving the performance of new and existing buildings including historic structures.  WBS Principals M. Dennis Knight and Susan E. Collins have combined their technical and product development skills to seek out new technologies and processes that will further their goal of improving the energy efficiency of the built environment"]
["Windchange Consulting","Eric Gertsman","1511 NE 115th Street, Seattle, WA 98125","egertsman@yahoo.com","202-294-0424","For-profit consulting firm","Windchange Consulting offers strategic planning, analysis & research, marketing, and project management services in the areas of energy efficiency and demand-side management, intelligent buildings, renewable energy, clean tech, and sustainability. More at: ttp://www.windchange.com. ","• STRATEGIC PLANNING\n· Program design – With a sharp focus on organizational and policy goals, we help design energy and resource conservation programs through a measured process that can include needs assessments, resource savings projections, incentive development, program logic mapping, quantitative viability modeling, and characterizations of qualitative factors.\n· Project viability assessment – We work with public and private entities to help identify the most salient sustainability investments that accomplish organizational missions, deliver requisite return-on-investment, and involve ancillary corporate benefits whenever possible.\n· Sustainability solutions – We help integrate strategies for energy, waste, water, transportation, materials usage, and other sustainability solutions through benchmarking, industry best practices, and ongoing tracking.\n· Process optimization – We use real-time data from program activities and customer feedback to address process pain-points and devise strategies that optimize operations.\n• ANALYSIS & RESEARCH\n· Tools for decision-making – We are pros at creating models that support an organization’s decision-making by mapping potential project/program designs, assessing project/program viability (technical, economic, and market), analyzing stakeholder impacts (customers, employees, investors), and monitoring impacts (resources, carbon, financial, brand).\n· Lifecycle analysis – We help organizations take a deeper look at their supply chains and operations by conducting comprehensive lifecycle analyses of resources and carbon emissions, from raw materials to production to end-of-life.\n• MARKETING\n· Marketing analysis – We conduct primary and secondary research to help characterize the barriers that prevent market adoption of your products and services.  This may involve SWOT analyses, industry assessments, literature reviews, focus groups, direct interviews, and surveys to help clients understand information such as market size and structure, policy context, customer dynamics, and even your internal capabilities.\n· Marketing strategy – We create smart marketing plans that are in line with your goals and the realities of the market, targeting the right customers with effective value propositions through an optimal marketing mix.\n· Marketing implementation – We execute marketing plans by utilizing a creative combination of outreach channels, including your website, direct marketing, advertising, communications, social media, collateral, speaking engagements, and your salespeople.\n· Business development support – Utilize our tenacious professionals to cultivate relationships, generate leads, and help sell your product or service.\n• IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT\n· Project management – We can manage all aspects of a project’s execution, including vigilant supervision of scope, timeline, budget, and ultimately project quality.\n· Program execution – We can help turn your rebate, incentive, and financing program plans into reality, achieving your goals through creative and aggressive rollout activities. This can include “boots on the ground” at corporate facilities, retail locations, or events.\n"]
["Wisual Power Corp","Prabhakar Nellore","37, Northcrest Drive , So San Francisco, CA-94080","npr@wisualpower.com or prabhakar@spasnet.net","408-464-3236","Privately Held Corp","Microgrid Controller Systems/Intelligent Sensor Data Infrastructure and Analytics for smarter energy monitoring and\n         control\n","Our Open standards based software plus hardware platform enables intelligent monitoring and control across renewable energy resources, energy demand,\n         energy storage devices in commercial and residential facilities and allows for increased energy efficiencies , optimizes performance of\n         renewables and energy storage systems, minimizes grid impact. We utilize, various types of third party \"open standards based\" sensors,\n         meters and controls to achieve this\n"]

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["Category 3: Sub-metering, Continuous Commissioning, Automated Fault Detection & Diagnostics"]
["Category 4: Occupant-Centered Sensing and Controls"]
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["Question 1","1. What technologies represent the current state-of-the-art for this category?"]
["Question 2","2. What are appropriate performance metrics (i.e., ways of measuring or evaluating the performance of a technology), as well as quantitative values for current state-of-the-art, commercially available products for those metrics and future target values for 2020 to characterize and compare different technology solutions under this category?"]
["Question 3","3. The category description includes a list of qualitative capabilities that describe an “ideal” technology.  What additional capabilities or criteria, if any, are missing from this list?"]
["Question 4","4. Regarding current R&D:  a. What technologies are currently under research or investigation?  b. What advantages are these technologies intended to have over those that are commercially available?  c. Do these technologies add any capabilities of an ideal technology (as listed in the Background section) that commercially-available technologies lack?  d. What limitations do these technologies face (e.g., cost, complexity, accuracy, reliability, range)? What additional research is required before they will be commercially available?"]
["Question 5","5. What technologies currently under development might be suitable for large buildings under construction or major renovation?  What technologies currently under development might be suitable for residential buildings or small commercial buildings?  What are the remaining R&D challenges that must be resolved before these technologies could be commercially available?"]
["Question 6","6. Are there intermediate innovations or key enabling technologies that require R&D before improvements in the listed categories are possible?  What are these enabling technologies or innovations?"]
["Question 7","7. What R&D opportunities remain for improving the performance or reducing the cost of existing technologies?  To what extent can existing technologies be improved?"]
["Question 8","8. What are market-acceptable equipment costs, labor costs, maintenance costs, commissioning costs, other costs, and time requirements for technologies in this category (expressed as a function of an acceptable unit [e.g., gross sq. ft., sensor, device, etc.] for each specified parameter)?  Please provide separate responses specific to residential and/or commercial buildings."]
["Question 9","9. What effects could improvements in the technologies within a category have on interest in and adoption of products for building energy management? How might the influence of improved systems differ between the new construction and retrofit markets?"]
["Question 10","10. What market barriers or other challenges, if any, prevent the wider use of existing state-of-the-art technologies?"]
["Question 11","11. What market opportunities would be created by improvements to commercially-available technologies?  What specific capabilities are required from these improved technologies to unlock the market opportunities identified?"]
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