Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Green and Climate Resilient Built Environments (Green CRiB)

规划资助：绿色和气候适应型建筑环境工程研究中心（Green CRiB）

• 批准号: 2124332
• 负责人: Aram Amassian
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124332&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The vision of the proposed ERC for Green and Climate Resilient Built Environments (Green CRiBs) is to enhance the climate-resilience of our society by improving indoor temperature stability as a means of dramatically increasing passive survivability, environmental justice, and providing a pathway to accelerate energy system decarbonization. The Green CRiBs ERC planning grant activities will focus on identifying cutting-edge, sustainable, engineering-based innovations in transparent envelope materials and enabling smart manufacturing technologies that will transform how natural and artificial light, heat and energy are managed in the built environment. Window and transparent envelope technologies leveraging innovations in super-insulating materials and novel light management paradigms will enable dramatic reduction of the overall need for active cooling/heating in buildings and agricultural greenhouses, while maximizing access to safe temperatures for both human living and economic activity, including food production. Green CRiBs is envisioned as an essential strategy for addressing climate change and environmental equity through energy savings and grid protection, while catalyzing innovation in the $0.42 trillion glass/window industry and multiple sectors it serves, and training the next generation of diverse, convergence- and innovation-minded engineers to solve complex societal problems.In this ERC, we aim to dramatically improve indoor temperature stabilization against outdoor temperature variations, which will lead to residual load reductions essential for grid decarbonization using an entirely new approach predicated on dynamical management of heat, light and energy at the level of the built environment. A diverse ERC team in terms of expertise, gender, race, geographic location, and career stage will be formed to establish an integrated research, innovation, learning, and mentoring environment with broad participation to produce a highly diverse group of convergent thinkers and problem solvers that reflect the increasing diversity of our society. System-level implications on safety, climate resilience, environmental equity and justice, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and grid decarbonization will be sought and enabled through enabling technologies, fundamental research, smart manufacturing innovations and stakeholder engagement. Intellectual merit outcomes of this planning grant are to: i) establish linkages between how multi-functional and dynamic transparent envelope technologies and innovations therein will impact climate resilience, energy equity, and grid decarbonization, ii) identify system-level and technology-level testbeds (residential and commercial buildings, greenhouse agriculture, etc.) that will maximize system-level benefits and societal impacts, iii) chart a path towards developing enabling technologies that advance thermal and light management properties well beyond the current state-of-the-art to become responsive to system-level needs, iv) identify critical pathways for advancement of aerogel thermal insulating windows, macroelectronic devices in fundamental areas of reversible electrodeposition, light energy modulation required for optimal plant growth and human comfort, on-glass energy harvesting and storage, and v) improve sustainable, low-cost and large scale manufacturing of advanced technologies on glass and other envelopes. System-level evaluations in primary testbeds in conjunction with stakeholders will be identified to guide research with an eye on minimizing cost and maximizing acceptance, adoption and societal impact. The Green CRiBs planning activities will also seek to identify the broadest possible stakeholder community and foster convergence of diverse disciplines related to systems, technologies and fundamental knowledge.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.

提议的ERC对绿色和气候弹性建筑环境（绿色婴儿床）的愿景是通过改善室内温度稳定性来增强我们社会的气候富度胜地，作为一种大幅提高被动生存能力，环境正义的一种手段，并提供了一种加速能源系统脱碳的途径。绿色婴儿床ERC规划赠款活动将着重于识别透明信封材料中的尖端，可持续的，基于工程的创新，并启用智能制造技术，这些技术将改变自然和人造光，热和能量在建筑环境中的管理方式。窗户和透明的包络技术利用超级构造材料和新颖的光管理范式中的创新将巨大减少建筑物和农业绿化屋中积极冷却/加热的整体需求，同时最大程度地减少人类生活和经济活动的安全温度，包括粮食生产，包括粮食生产。绿色婴儿床被设想为通过节省和网格保护来解决气候变化和环境公平的重要策略，同时催化了0.42万亿美元的玻璃/窗户行业的创新及其服务的多个行业，并培训下一代多样化，趋同和创新的工程师，以解决此类社会问题，以解决此类型号，以解决此类型号的稳定温度。变体将使用建立环境水平的热，光和能量的动态管理来实现全新的方法，从而导致对网格脱碳的剩余负载减少。 在专业知识，性别，种族，地理位置和职业阶段方面，将成立一个多元化的ERC团队，以建立一项综合的研究，创新，学习和指导环境，以广泛的参与为生，以产生一群高度多样化的融合思想家和问题解决者，以反映我们社会不断增长的多样性。通过启用技术，基本研究，智能制造创新和利益相关者的参与，将寻求和启用系统级别对安全性，气候弹性，环境平等和正义，减少温室气体排放和网格脱碳的影响。这项计划赠款的智力优点结果是：i）在其中的多功能和动态透明的包络技术和创新之间建立联系，将影响气候弹性，能源平等和脱碳，ii）ii）系统级别和技术级别的测试（确定居住和商业化的效果，居住式农业），而不是居住型和商业化的效果，而不是居住的型号，而不是） a path towards developing enabling technologies that advance thermal and light management properties well beyond the current state-of-the-art to become responsive to system-level needs, iv) identify critical pathways for advancement of aerogel thermal insulating windows, macroelectronic devices in fundamental areas of reversible electrodeposition, light energy modulation required for optimal plant growth and human comfort, on-glass energy harvesting and storage, and v) improve sustainable, low-cost and玻璃和其他信封上高级技术的大规模制造。将确定主要测试床的系统级评估与利益相关者一起确定，以指导研究，以最大程度地降低成本并最大程度地接受，采用和社会影响。绿色婴儿床计划活动还将寻求确定最广泛的利益相关者社区，并促进与系统，技术和基本知识相关的各种学科的融合。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。