IUCRC Phase 1: The City College of New York: Center for Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST)

建筑节能智能技术(BEST)IUCRC将大学和行业聚集在一起，通过开发和采用可持续和智能技术来改造建筑业。百思买将在美国的各种建筑中应用创新、节能的技术。BEST将设在两个地点：科罗拉多大学博尔德大学(CUB)的领先地点和纽约城市学院(CCNY)的合作伙伴地点，利用这些地点提供的多样化的学术、自然和工业环境。最佳中心将通过设计、改造、建造和运营可持续建筑和城市的综合系统方法，促进建筑环境中能源的智能、可持续和高效开发和利用。最终，BEST中心将支持美国建筑业满足日益严格的建筑能效法规的努力，以及社会对提高社区和城市的可持续性、弹性和安全性的期望。最佳中心将支持到2050年实现温室气体净零排放的目标。此外，该中心将教育和培训一支技能娴熟的多样化劳动力队伍，以满足美国建筑业当前和未来的就业需求。最佳中心将通过全面了解建筑和自然系统之间的相互作用，促进新的和可持续的建筑能源技术的开发。特别是，该中心将为与极端天气事件相关的建筑环境提供设计和运营解决方案，由于快速变化的气候，极端天气事件正变得更加频繁和强烈。此外，该中心将专注于建筑领域因流行病和新冠肺炎等健康危机而出现的新挑战，并加强建筑系统和居住者隐私的网络安全。该中心的研究范围涵盖建筑能源系统的多个具体学科，包括室内-室外能量流动、先进的建筑围护结构系统、需求-响应信息学、先进的现场和遥感技术在监测环境和居住者方面的应用，以及分布式节能和可再生技术。为了满足建筑行业丰富多样的需求，中心提出了五个主要研究领域：(I)智能建筑材料，(Ii)智能建筑机械和电力系统，(Iii)分布式和可再生能源系统，(Iv)城市规模的建筑能源系统和信息学，以及(V)与分布式能源和数据系统集成的智能电网系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

The Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) IUCRC brings together universities and industries to transform the building industry through the development and adoption of sustainable and intelligent technologies. BEST will apply innovative, energy-smart technologies through a wide spectrum of US buildings. BEST will be located in two sites: the lead site at University of Colorado Boulder (CUB) and the partner site at City College of New York (CCNY), taking advantage of the diverse academic, natural and industrial environments these locations provide. The BEST center will foster smart, sustainable, and efficient development and utilization of energy in the built environment through an integrated systems approach to design, retrofit, construct, and operate sustainable buildings and cities. Ultimately, the BEST Center will support the U.S. building industry’s efforts to meet increasingly stringent building energy-efficiency regulations, and society’s expectations for improved sustainability, resiliency, and security in communities and cities. The BEST Center will support the goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Moreover, the center will educate and train a skilled and diverse workforce to address current and future employment needs for the U.S. building industry.The BEST Center will enable the development of new and sustainable building energy technologies through a holistic understanding of the interactions between built and-natural systems. In particular, the center will address design and operation solutions for the built environment associated with extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and intense due to a rapidly changing climate. Additionally, the center will focus on the emerging challenges in the building sector due to pandemics and health crises such as those caused by COVID-19, and increase cybersecurity of the buildings systems and of occupants’ privacy. The center’s research scope spans various disciplines specific to building energy systems, including indoor-outdoor energy flows, advanced building envelope systems, demand-response informatics, application of advanced in-situ and remote sensing for monitoring the environment and occupants, and distributed energy efficient and renewable technologies. To cover the rich and wide diversity of the building industry needs, five Thrust Areas are proposed for the center’s research activities: (i) smart buildings materials, (ii) intelligent building mechanical and electrical energy systems, (iii) distributed and renewable energy systems, (iv) city-scale building energy systems and informatics, and (v) smart grid systems integrated with distributed energy and data systems.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.