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Lab members, Cary Faulkner, Yingli Lou, and Yizhi Yang received scholarships to attend the 2022 ASHRAE & IBPSA-USA BPAC and SimBuild Conference

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 16:36:05 +0000

Lab members, Cary Faulkner, Yingli Lou, and Yizhi Yang received scholarships to attend the 2022 ASHRAE & IBPSA-USA BPAC and SimBuild Conference Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 08/06/2022 - 10:36

Congratulation to lab members, Cary Faulkner, Yingli Lou, and Yizhi Yang, have been selected to receive up to $1500 in scholarship funds to attend the 2022 ASHRAE & IBPSA-USA BPAC and SimBuild Conference. The theme of the conference, “Better Buildings, Less Carbon: Supporting the Transition to A Clean and Just Climate” focuses on improving the decision-making process through the application of simulation and modeling over the entire building life cycle. More information about the conference can be found here.

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Lab PI, Dr. Wangda Zuo was invited by NCAR to give a presentation titled "Modeling Sustainable and Resilient Citied: Opportunities for Climate Prediction"

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:44:07 +0000

Lab PI, Dr. Wangda Zuo was invited by NCAR to give a presentation titled "Modeling Sustainable and Resilient Citied: Opportunities for Climate Prediction" Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/19/2022 - 15:44

On July 13, 2022, Lab PI, Dr. Wangda Zuo was invited by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to give a presentation titled "Modeling Sustainable and Resilient Citied: Opportunities for Climate Prediction".

This presentation discussed the needs of both short-term local weather and long-term climate prediction for the modeling of sustainable and resilient cities from an energy infrastructure system modeler's point of view. Dr. Zuo introduced some ongoing DOE and NSF projects in developing open-source models for sustainable and resilient cities which can be applied in various real-world applications, such as reducing energy consumption via net zero energy communities, minimizing building carbon emissions via emission-conscious operation, retrofitting existing buildings for long-term energy and emission reduction, improving outdoor environmental quality via urban farming in Indonesia, and increasing the resilience of our energy systems for an island community in Florida after Hurricane. During the discussion, the importance and the opportunities of having good short-term weather prediction and long-term climate prediction were revealed in the energy infrastructure models in those applications. More information about our research can be found here.

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Lab member, Yingli Lou, had successfully defended her PhD dissertation on “Interconnections of Energy Consumption, Carbon Emission, and Economic Impacts for Sustainable Buildings”.

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:11:53 +0000

Lab member, Yingli Lou, had successfully defended her PhD dissertation on “Interconnections of Energy Consumption, Carbon Emission, and Economic Impacts for Sustainable Buildings”. Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/13/2022 - 13:11

SBS lab member Yingli Lou successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled Interconnections of Energy Consumption, Carbon Emission, and Economic Impacts for Sustainable Buildings.

This dissertation aims to reveal the connections among building energy consumption, carbon emissions, and related economic impacts. First, this dissertation developed individualized empirical baselines for existing buildings in the operation stage that are consistent with their modeled baselines in the design stage. Second, this dissertation developed a novel method to predict the carbon emission reduction potential of building retrofits by using dynamically changing electricity emission factors under different clean energy adoption scenarios. At last, this dissertation proposed a systematic economic evaluation method to investigate the economic impacts of carbon emission trading schemes on building retrofits.

Dr. Yingli Lou's research focuses on building energy performance evaluation, large-scale building energy simulation, and carbon emissions from buildings. During the three years of her Ph.D. study, Yingli published 9 journal papers and developed the open-source Building Energy Models for Commercial Buildings Based on CBECS Data. In addition, she has contributed to multiple grant proposals and secured more than $5M projects from DOE and NSF.

Congratulations to Dr. Lou on this well-deserved success and wish her all the best in her professional career!

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Lab alumnus, Dr. Ye, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Homer Addams Award.

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:46:51 +0000

Lab alumnus, Dr. Ye, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Homer Addams Award. Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/16/2022 - 12:46

SBS Lab alumnus, Dr. Yunyang Ye, has been selected as recipient of the 2022 Hommer Addams Award. This award was given in recognition of his contribution to the ASHRAE research project RP-1771, "Developement of new baseline models for U.S. medium office buildings based on commercial buildings energy consumption survey data". He conducted this research while completing his Ph.D. at our lab. For more information about this award please visit here.

Dr. Ye obtained his Ph.D. degree in Architectural Engineering at �� in 2019. During his study at CU Boulder, he focused on large-scale building energy modeling, sensitivity analysis, building energy codes, and net zero energy community. He received the ASHRAE Grant-in-Aid Award ($10,000) and ASHRAE Student Travel Grant. He was also nominated by the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering as the sole nominee of the department to compete for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He is currently working on building energy simulations and analyses, and urban scale modeling at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Congratulations to Dr. Ye on this well-deserved award and wish him all the best in his future endeavors!

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