Planning IUCRC at Oklahoma State University: Center for Sustainably Integrated Buildings and Sites (SIBS)

要减轻对气候的严重负面影响，就需要到2050年将碳排放总量减少80%。商业和住宅建筑占发达国家温室气体排放量的40%。因此，如果没有建筑物的实质性减排，就不可能实现所需的全球减排。尽管有这种需求，但目前的建筑通常消耗的能源和排放的污染物比建筑设计过程中预测的要多得多。预测的不准确性一直存在，部分原因是工程师和建筑师很少收到任何关于实际能源性能的反馈，部分原因是缺乏关于建筑设备、操作和电网/环境相互作用的深度集成知识，而设计师可以利用这些知识。可持续集成建筑和场地中心（SIBS）计划通过多学科研究专业知识的融合来解决缺乏集成和反馈的问题，以解决建筑能源预测的不准确性，并发展科学严谨的建筑设计过程转型。这些活动还将通过向相关专业协会传播中心成果、教育该领域的大量学生和建设高价值研究基础设施，支持提高科学素养、美国竞争力和行业合作。由于缺乏来自被占用建筑的反馈，以及缺乏设计师可以利用的建筑设备和操作之间的深度集成知识，许多下一代建筑无法实现最佳效率和最小的环境影响。与上述挑战相结合的是监管环境的普遍变化，目前要求所有设备制造商重新设计其设备，以包括对环境影响较小的工作流体。为了应对这些挑战，需要在建筑科学研究方法上进行范式转变，包括更深入地整合各种学科和利益相关者，并将成果汇集在一起，以推进建筑科学的最新发展。为了支持这一点，SIBS-OSU的使命是在三个主要主题领域开发综合解决方案；(1)建筑供暖和制冷设备向低全球变暖潜值（GWP）制冷剂的过渡；(2)在电网和互联网连接环境中部署物理/网络物理建筑系统；(3)建筑系统对环境影响的可持续最小化。为了支持全球SIBS的使命，这些领域将利用建筑热系统和设备研究的长期遗产，促进建筑设备制造商与设计、建造和运营建筑的工程师和从业者之间的研究合作。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。

Mitigation of severe negative impacts on the climate will require an 80% reduction in total carbon emissions by 2050. Commercial and residential buildings are responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in developed countries. Therefore, it is not possible to achieve the required reduction in global emissions without substantive reductions from buildings. Despite this need, current buildings commonly consume significantly higher amounts of energy and emit more pollutants than predicted during the building design process. Prediction inaccuracies persist partly because engineers and archi-tects seldom receive any feedback as to actual energy performance and partly because there is a lack of deeply integrated knowledge regarding building equipment, operation and grid/environmental in-teractions in a way that a designer can utilize. The center for Sustainably Integrated Buildings and Sites (SIBS) plans to address the lack of integration and feedback with a convergence of multidisci-plinary research expertise to address inaccuracies in building energy predictions with the vision of developing a scientifically rigorous transformation to the building design process. The activities will also support an increase in scientific literacy, U.S. competitiveness, and industry collaborations by disseminating center outcomes to relevant professional societies, educating high-volumes of students in this field and construction of high-value research infrastructure.Many next-generation buildings to not achieve optimal efficiency and minimal environmental impact as a result of a lack of feedback from the occupied building and a lack of deeply integrated knowledge between building equipment and operation that the designer can utilize. Conflating the aforementioned challenge is the omnipresent shift in regulatory environment that is currently requir-ing all equipment manufacturers to re-design their equipment to include working fluids with less en-vironmental impact. To address these challenges requires a paradigm shift in the approach to building science research that includes a deeper integration of the various disciplines and stakeholders and converges the outcomes to advance the state-of-the-art in building sciences. To support this, SIBS-OSU has a mission to develop integrated solutions within three major topical areas; (1) transition of building heating and cooling equipment to low-Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerants, (2) deployment of physical/cyber-physical building systems in grid and internet-connected environments (3) sustainable minimization of the environmental impact of building systems. To support the global SIBS mission, these areas will leverage the long-standing legacy in building thermal systems and equipment research to facilitate research collaborations between the building equipment manufactur-ers with the engineers and practitioners that design, build, and operate the buildings.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.