Project Reports
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Government - Institutional Facilities, Hospitality, Retail
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This project tests the capabilities of the Simergy version 2.1 Title 24 Module 2013-3c for nonresidential compliance with California Energy Code Title 24 Part 06 using the performance approach. Simergy was developed by Digital Alchemy. In addition, Simergy is compared to the...
Markets » Residential
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The main objective of this project is to evaluate how well the Honda Smart Home achieves the design goals of reaching zero net energy (ZNE) performance while providing a high level of service to occupants. The project compares modeled energy use estimates to actual energy use. Key...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Educational Facilities, Food Service Industry, Government - Institutional Facilities, Hospitality, Medical - Healthcare, Retail, Supermarket
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The objective of this study is to understand the human factors that result in economizer failures in the field, and to use this insight to recommend changes in technologies, policies, programs, practices, enabling tools, and business models that can improve the performance of...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial, Small, Food Service Industry
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The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of passive phase change materials (PCMs) for controlling room temperatures in buildings and reducing the need for mechanical cooling. The PCM technology is designed to absorb heat during the daytime, and release heat...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Educational Facilities, Food Service Industry, Government - Institutional Facilities, Hospitality, Medical - Healthcare, Retail, Supermarket
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This study seeks to develop an accurate means of estimating impacts of supply duct-system leakage on energy use in commercial buildings with VAV systems, focusing on central-system cooling and outdoor air (OA) preheating. The project team developed a simplified method for...
Markets » Residential
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An ET project could help the resolve the existing impasse regarding ductless mini-splits in the market, and would need to have a field demonstration component which allows actual performance to be compared to central split system heat pumps and develops best practices for the design...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Government - Institutional Facilities
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Demonstrate and Assess High Performance Envelope strategies for commercial buildings and how they interact with Lighting, Daylighting and Office Equipment Loads to better T24 2013 Code compliance by 20-40%.
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Government - Institutional Facilities, Industrial - Manufacturing, Retail, Supermarket, Other
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In this study, we demonstrated a fast DR system architecture for DR resources participation in ancillary services using the OpenADR 2.0b. One objective was to measure if response time would be 4 sec or less, with response time defined as time to send signal, get response, and...
Markets » Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Government - Institutional Facilities, High Technology
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In support of California’s strategic plan to accelerate the penetration of energy efficiency technologies, this report presents the findings of a field evaluation of a plug load monitoring and control technology in an office building. The work was executed by Alternative Energy...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Food Service Industry, Government - Institutional Facilities, Hospitality, Retail
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Evaporative cooling building technologies take advantage of the latent heat of vaporization for water to provide comfort cooling. Indirect evaporative cooling technologies achieve this without adding water vapor to the zone supply air. The technology studied here provides condenser...