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["Organization Name","Contact Name","Contact Address","Contact Email","Contact Phone","Organization Type","Area of Technical Expertise","Description of Capabilities"]
["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."]
["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."]
["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"]
["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."]
["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"]
["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"]
["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"]
["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"]
["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"]
["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"]
["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"]
["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"]
["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."]
["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"]
["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"]
["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"]

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["Category 1: Multi-purpose Plug-and-Play Sensor Packages"]
["Category 2: Virtual Sensors and Predictive Models"]
["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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