Planning IUCRC at City College of New York: Center for Building Energy Smart Technology (BEST)

建筑能源智能技术中心（BEST-East）是纽约城市学院、纽约大学和科罗拉多大学博尔德分校BEST-West中心节点之间的合作伙伴关系。通过产业界和学术界的协同研究和发展，中心致力于推动建筑能源系统的智能化和节能化。该能源部门是美国最高的能源最终使用量，约占全国能源消耗总量的40%。我们将开发和试验适用于从单个建筑到城市区域的各种环境的能源技术。这包括智能建筑围护结构材料和系统、先进的暖通空调系统和建筑综合可持续能源技术。这些解决方案将优化能源效率、居住者舒适度、极端事件的弹性和自然资源的保护。该中心将为不同行业和大学之间的合作提供一个独特的平台，共同目标是为建筑环境开发下一代能源技术。该中心致力于培训下一代工程师和科学家，这些工程师和科学家将从整个合作伙伴关系中抽取出来，在协作环境中工作。因此，该中心将在改善国家方面发挥至关重要的作用。基础设施建设和能源安全。BEST-East中心将汇集美国大学和合作行业的多学科研究能力，开发智能技术，提高单个建筑和城市中心的能源可持续性和弹性。为了满足丰富多样的建筑行业的需求，中心将从事五个互补的重点研究领域，包括：(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信息，以及(v)建筑能源行业的分布式数据传感器和网络。该中心的研究和开发将以建筑和城市尺度的热量和质量传输过程、能源转换过程、建筑材料、信息和网络科学的基础为基础。该中心还将包括综合可再生能源技术的技术创新，先进的建筑围护结构，开窗和照明，以及能源信息，以产生紧密集成，智能，自适应和高效的建筑能源系统。此外，该中心将在考虑建筑物和城市的可持续性影响和弹性需求的情况下，解决新建筑以及需要修复和修复的现有建筑的紧迫能源效率问题。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 Center of Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST-East) is a partnership between The City College of New York, New York University and the BEST-West center node at University of Colorado-Boulder. Through synergistic research and development between the industry and the academia, the Center seeks to advance building energy systems to be intelligent and energy efficient. This energy sector is responsible for the highest energy end-use in the US, about 40% of total national energy consumption. We will develop and test energy technologies for environments ranging from single buildings to urban districts. This includes intelligent building envelope materials and systems, advanced HVAC systems, and building integrated sustainable energy technologies. These solutions will optimize energy efficiency, occupant comfort, resiliency in extreme events, and conservation of natural resources. The Center will represent a unique platform for collaboration between diverse range of industries and universities, with the common goal of developing the next generation energy technologies for the built environment. The Center is committed to training the next generation engineers and scientists, which will be drawn from across the partnership to work in a collaborative environment. The Center will thus play a crucial role in improving the nation?s building infrastructure and energy security.The BEST-East Center will bring together multi-disciplinary research capabilities of US universities and partner industries to develop smart technologies that enhance energy sustainability and resiliency for individual buildings and for urban centers. In order to address the need of the rich and diverse building industry, the Center will engage in five complementary thrust research areas including: (i) Smart buildings materials, (ii) Intelligent building mechanical and electrical energy systems, (iii) Distributed and renewable energy systems, (iv) City-scale building energy informatics, and (v) Distributed data sensors and networks for the building energy industry. Research and development for the proposed Center will be anchored on fundamentals of heat and mass transport processes at the building and city scales, energy conversion processes, building materials, information and cyber sciences. The Center will also include technical innovations on integrated renewable energy technologies, and advanced building enclosures, fenestration and lighting, and energy informatics to yield tightly integrated, intelligent, adaptive, and efficient building energy systems. Moreover, the Center will address pressing energy efficiency issues in new buildings as well as in existing building stocks that are in need of remedial and rehabilitation with consideration for the sustainability impacts and resiliency needs of buildings and cities.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.