Planning IUCRC at University of Colorado Boulder: Center for Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST)

建筑能源智能技术中心（BEST-West）是科罗拉多大学和亚利桑那州立大学以及纽约城市学院BEST-East中心之间的合作伙伴关系。通过工业界和学术界的协同研究和开发，BEST中心寻求推进建筑能源系统的智能化和节能化。在美国，建筑部门的能源最终使用量最高，约占美国总能源消耗的40%。该中心将为单个建筑和城区开发、整合和测试能源技术。这些技术包括智能建筑围护结构材料和组件、先进的暖通空调系统、建筑综合能源技术和可再生能源选择，可以提高能源的可持续性、居住者的舒适度以及建筑、社区和城市中心的整体弹性。该中心将提供一个独特的平台，让不同的建筑行业和大学合作开发和整合用于建筑环境的下一代能源技术。此外，该中心还致力于培养未来的工程师和科学家来设计和运营智能建筑、社区和城市中心。因此，BEST中心将在改善国家建筑基础设施和能源安全方面发挥至关重要的作用。BEST中心将汇集美国四所大学和合作行业的多学科研究能力，开发智能和节能技术，提高单个建筑和城市中心的可持续性和弹性。为了满足丰富多样的建筑行业需求，该中心有五个重点领域，包括(i)智能建筑材料，（ii）智能建筑机电能源系统，（iii）分布式和可再生能源系统，（iv）建筑能源信息，以及(v)建筑能源行业的分布式数据传感器和网络。该中心的研究和开发将涵盖基础科学，包括但不限于建筑过程中的能源和质量运输、能源转换和建筑材料。该中心还将促进可再生能源的技术创新，以及建筑围护结构、开窗和照明方面的进步，以产生紧密集成、智能、自适应和高效的建筑能源系统。该中心还将开发智能和鲁棒逆建模算法，用于多个建筑能源系统的整体故障检测和监督控制。此外，该中心将解决新建和现有建筑库存中紧迫的能源效率问题，以提高其可持续性和弹性，同时保持室内舒适性和居住者的生产力要求。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center of Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST-West) is a partnership between University of Colorado and Arizona State University as well as the BEST-East center site at the City College of New York. Through synergetic research and development between industry and academia, BEST center seeks to advance building energy systems to be intelligent and energy efficient. The building sector is responsible for the highest energy end-use in the US, about 40% of total US energy consumption. The center will develop, integrate, and test energy technologies for single buildings and urban districts. These technologies including intelligent building envelope materials and assemblies, advanced HVAC systems, building integrated energy technologies, and renewable energy options, can enhance energy sustainability, occupant's comfort, and overall resiliency of buildings, communities, and urban centers. The center will provide a unique platform to bring different building industries and universities to collaboratively develop and integrate the next generation energy technologies for the built environment. Moreover, the center is committed to train future engineers and scientists to design and operate smart buildings, communities, and urban centers. The BEST center will thus play a crucial role in improving the nation's building infrastructure and energy security.The BEST center will bring together multi-disciplinary research capabilities of four US universities and partner industries to develop both smart and energy efficient technologies that enhance sustainability and resiliency for individual buildings and urban centers. To cover the rich and diverse building industry needs, the center has five thrust areas to cover (i) smart buildings materials, (ii) intelligent building mechanical and electrical energy systems, (iii) distributed and renewable energy systems, (iv) building energy informatics:, and (v) distributed data sensors and networks for the building energy industry. Research and development for the proposed center will cover fundamental sciences including but not limited to energy and mass transport in building processes, energy conversions, and building materials. The center will also foster technical innovations in renewable energy sources along with advances in building enclosures, fenestration and lighting, to yield tightly integrated, intelligent, adaptive, and highly efficient building energy systems. The center will also develop intelligent and robust inverse modeling algorithms for purposes of holistic fault detection and supervisory control of several building energy systems. Moreover, the center will address pressing energy efficiency issues in new and existing building stocks to enhance their sustainability and resiliency while maintaining indoor comfort and occupant productivity requirements.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.