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Berkeley Lab, NTU Singapore Collaborate for Energy Technologies

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will jointly develop technologies for energy efficiency and sustainable development in the tropics. They will collaborate on research in various areas of energy-efficiency for buildings, renewable energy generation and storage, and smart grids. The five-year partnership will work to ... Read more »

Berkeley Lab Opens ‘Rotating’ Testbed

Next week, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will celebrate the opening of four newly constructed outdoor testbeds, which have been added to its Flexlab facility. Webcor Builders and its subcontractors will be the first to conduct experiments in Flexlab’s new rotating testbed, which rotates up to 270° for different orientations with ... Read more »

FlexLab Tests Building Systems Integration

Among the many uses of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division forthcoming FlexLab will be its capability to test successfully integrating HVAC, facades, shading, lighting systems and controls in a way that’s cost effective, and generates aggressive energy savings, according to a question and answer session with the facility’s manager Cindy ... Read more »

FlexLab Incorporates Building Energy Test, Measurement from Cal-Bay

Cal-Bay Systems has teamed with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to design, install and deploy test, validation and measurement equipment in the DOE’s new Facility for Low Energy Experiments in Buildings, or FlexLab. The facility provides researchers, manufacturers, developers, architects, engineers, contractors and utilities ... Read more »

LBNL’s Simergy Goes Live

The Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Buildings Technology Office of the Department of Energy have launched Simergy, a free graphical user interface that aims to enable the whole-building energy modeling engine, EnergyPlus, to be used more easily and effectively. Simergy (screenshots pictured) aims to ... Read more »

Berkeley Lab Tests Smart Grid Communication

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Demand to Grid (D2G) Lab is testing a variety of communication architectures to govern the way information moves between energy users and the grid, and how it can be viewed and monitored. The D2G Lab is demonstrating the Energy Service Interface, a generic interface between the ... Read more »

Net-zero Developer Selects Ekotrope for Energy Efficiency Modeling

Green Key Village, the developer of a new Florida subdivision consisting of 145 net-zero homes, has selected Ekotrope software for analyzing and designing energy-efficient buildings. The Green Key Village venture in Lady Lake, Fla., will offer eco-friendly homes available in ten floor plans. Each home and design will be fully ... Read more »

Wisconsin University Energy Lab Uses 48% Less Energy Than Code Minimum

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will dedicate its new Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) building April 5. The 100,000-sq-ft., five-story building is on track to receive LEED Gold certification and is designed to incorporate the energy efficiency that will be studied there, including: The building is projected to use 48.8 percent less ... Read more »

FlexLab Announces Industry Partners

Philips Research North America, Daikin AC, PROSPECT Silicon Valley and the Singapore Building and Construction Authority are the first four partners of the Facility for Low Energy eXperiments in Buildings (FLEXLAB). FLEXLAB consists of a series of testbeds and supporting labs that facilitate development, demonstration and deployment of innovative, high-performance ... Read more »

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