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

建筑能源智能技术（BEST） IUCRC将大学和工业界聚集在一起，通过开发和采用可持续和智能技术来改变建筑行业。BEST将通过广泛的美国建筑应用创新的能源智能技术。BEST将设在两个地点：科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（CUB）的牵头地点和纽约城市学院（CCNY）的合作地点，充分利用这些地点提供的多样化的学术、自然和工业环境。BEST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，促进建筑环境中智能、可持续和高效的能源开发和利用。最终，BEST中心将支持美国建筑行业的努力，以满足日益严格的建筑能效法规，以及社会对社区和城市的可持续性、弹性和安全性的期望。BEST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熟练和多样化的劳动力，以解决美国建筑行业当前和未来的就业需求。BEST中心将通过对建筑和自然系统之间相互作用的全面理解，开发新的可持续建筑能源技术。特别是，该中心将解决与极端天气事件相关的建筑环境的设计和运营解决方案，由于气候的快速变化，极端天气事件变得越来越频繁和强烈。此外，该中心将专注于因COVID-19等流行病和健康危机而在建筑领域出现的新挑战，并提高建筑系统的网络安全以及居住者的隐私。该中心的研究范围涵盖建筑能源系统的各个学科，包括室内-室外能源流，先进的建筑围护结构系统，需求响应信息学，用于监测环境和居住者的先进原位和遥感应用，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，该中心的研究活动提出了五个重点领域：(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）城市规模的建筑能源系统和信息，以及(v)集成分布式能源和数据系统的智能电网系统。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 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.