Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Responsive, Efficient, Livable, and Independent Sunlight-enabled Habitats (RELISH)

规划资助：响应、高效、宜居、独立的阳光栖息地工程研究中心（RELISH）

• 批准号: 1840467
• 负责人: Mark Swihart
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.This planning grant will assemble a diverse multidisciplinary team, develop a comprehensive plan, and lay the groundwork for an NSF Engineering Research Center that designs and implements integrated systems and livable environments for responsive, efficient, and grid-independent local use of sunlight to sustainably meet ever-increasing human needs for energy and light. In other words, it will develop advanced self-sufficient solar-powered residential buildings that incorporate new and emerging technologies in novel ways. In the U.S., buildings account for about 40% of primary energy consumption, and 75% of electricity use. Residential buildings alone account for about 21% of energy consumption. Meanwhile, total residential energy consumption continues to rise despite efficiency gains driven by policy measures (e.g., Energy Star). Breaking through current limitations requires a broader approach to innovation that changes the way buildings generate and consume energy, not only to promote sustainability, but also to increase the resiliency of our energy infrastructure. Energy independence at the building or neighborhood level can protect against both natural and human-caused disruptions of energy supply while enabling greater integration of renewable resources. Thus, the planned Engineering Research Center will serve the national interest by making energy generation and consumption in buildings more sustainable, resilient, and secure. This benefits national prosperity and welfare while helping to secure the national defense by making the US energy infrastructure more robust. These aims will be achieved by advancing and integrating new materials and technologies, and will thus promote the progress of science in a way that directly benefits society.The goal of this NSF Engineering Research Center planning grant is to assemble and integrate a world-class team of engineers, architects, scientists, and policy experts to advance and mature the vision for creating integrated systems and livable environments for responsive, efficient, and grid-independent local use of sunlight to sustainably meet ever-increasing human needs for energy and light. The planning grant will support team-building via professionally facilitated planning workshops with wraparound online activities that build communication and trust across geographic and disciplinary boundaries. Recurring planning meetings will be held throughout the grant period. A major public symposium is proposed to bring together ERC proposal partners, distinguished invited speakers, and students from SUNY at Buffalo (UB), partner institutions, and other institutions, particularly minority-serving institutions. A series of faculty-led half-day workshops will introduce the broader team to foundational values and perspectives of various disciplines represented on the team, furthering mutual understanding and trust across the team. Team leadership will travel to visit both existing successful ERCs and potential industrial partners. The team will engage with existing successful programs in education, outreach, and broadening participation at UB and partner institutions to identify best practices and opportunities for partnership. In all these activities the team will systematically gather ?voice of the customer? input from stakeholders ranging from researchers to companies to K-12 students to designers, builders, and potential occupants of future housing to be developed through the ERC. The team also will engage marketing, communication, and social science researchers to identify and effectively survey potential occupants, aiming to reach a true cross-section of Buffalo?s diverse population. The proposed project will generate new scientific ideas, research directions, and applications thereof that address the gap between available and needed renewable energy. The project will significantly advance fundamental understanding of the informatics-driven development of transformative light (wavelength) converting materials that open new paradigms for harvesting and utilizing solar energy. It will generate ideas for next generation adaptive photovoltaic and thermal/illumination/disinfection systems to realize sustainable energy consumption and internet-of-things-based systems for large-scale adaptive control and optimization of energy flow. It will provide new concepts in residential architecture that lead us to reimagine ways in which buildings are designed, manufactured, and occupied in light of new materials and technologies.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.

工程研究中心规划拨款竞赛是ERC项目的试点征集。规划补助金不需要作为ERC竞赛的一部分，但它旨在在团队之间建立能力，以规划聚合的、中心规模的工程研究。该规划拨款将组建一个多元化的多学科团队，制定一个全面的计划，并为NSF工程研究中心奠定基础，该中心将设计和实施集成系统和宜居环境，以响应、高效、独立于电网的当地阳光利用，以可持续地满足人类对能源和光线日益增长的需求。换句话说，它将开发先进的自给自足的太阳能住宅建筑，以新颖的方式结合新兴技术。在美国，建筑约占一次能源消耗的40%，占用电量的75%。仅住宅建筑一项就占能源消耗的21%左右。与此同时，尽管政策措施（如“能源之星”）推动了能效的提高，但住宅总能耗仍在继续上升。突破目前的限制需要更广泛的创新方法，改变建筑产生和消耗能源的方式，不仅要促进可持续性，还要增加我们能源基础设施的弹性。建筑或社区层面的能源独立可以防止自然和人为造成的能源供应中断，同时实现可再生资源的更大整合。因此，计划中的工程研究中心将通过使建筑中的能源生产和消费更具可持续性、弹性和安全性来服务于国家利益。这有利于国家繁荣和福利，同时通过使美国能源基础设施更加强大，有助于确保国防安全。这些目标将通过推进和整合新材料和新技术来实现，从而以一种直接造福社会的方式促进科学的进步。这项NSF工程研究中心规划拨款的目标是组建和整合一支由工程师、建筑师、科学家和政策专家组成的世界级团队，推进和成熟创造综合系统和宜居环境的愿景，以响应、高效、独立于电网的当地阳光利用，以可持续地满足人类对能源和光线日益增长的需求。规划拨款将支持团队建设，通过专业指导的规划研讨会和全面的在线活动，建立跨地域和学科界限的沟通和信任。在奖助金期间将定期举行计划会议。建议举办一次大型公开研讨会，汇集ERC提案的合作伙伴、杰出的受邀演讲者、纽约州立大学布法罗分校（UB）的学生、合作机构和其他机构，特别是少数族裔服务机构。一系列由教师主导的为期半天的研讨会将向更广泛的团队介绍团队中不同学科的基本价值观和观点，促进团队之间的相互理解和信任。团队领导将访问现有的成功的erc和潜在的工业合作伙伴。该团队将参与UB和合作机构在教育，推广和扩大参与方面的现有成功项目，以确定最佳实践和合作机会。在所有这些活动中，团队将系统地聚集在一起？顾客的声音？来自利益相关者的意见，从研究人员到公司，从K-12学生到设计师，建筑商，以及通过ERC开发的未来住房的潜在居住者。该团队还将聘请市场营销、沟通和社会科学研究人员来识别和有效调查潜在的居住者，旨在达到布法罗的真实横截面。S多样化的人口。拟议的项目将产生新的科学思想、研究方向及其应用，以解决可用和需要的可再生能源之间的差距。该项目将显著推进对信息驱动的光（波长）转换材料开发的基本理解，为太阳能的收集和利用开辟新的范例。它将为下一代自适应光伏和热/照明/消毒系统提供思路，以实现可持续能源消耗和基于物联网的系统，用于大规模自适应控制和优化能量流。它将为住宅建筑提供新的概念，引导我们重新构想建筑设计、制造和使用新材料和新技术的方式。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。