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Senior Ph.D. student Xu Han received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the department of Architectural Engineering to complete his thesis work this coming semester. His thesis work is on advanced modeling of thermal environment and energy efficiency in buildings. Congratulations to Xu, and we look forward to his dissertation!

On November 21, 2019 several members of the SBS Lab presented for the IBPSA - Denver student presentations at the Colorado School of Mines. The audience included students and faculty from both CU Boulder and Colorado School of Mines, as well as some employees of NREL. The presentations given by...

On Friday November 15, 2019 Dr. Zuo attended the IMPEL+ (Incubating Market-Propelled Entrepreneurial-Mindset at the Labs and Beyond) workshop at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and he was one of 20 selected innovators from academia and industry for this workshop. The aim of this workshop was to focus scientific research in...

On October 30, 2019 Yunyang passed his Ph.D defense and became the first member of the SBS Lab to get their Ph.D. at CU Boulder! He presented his dissertation titled Standardized Computational Framework for Prototypical Building Energy Model Creation and Building Energy Analyses to committee members Dr. John Zhai, Dr...

Dr. Yan Chen from Purdue University gave a seminar titled "Inverse Design of Indoor Environment by CFD-based Optimal Methods" at CU boulder on October 9th. Dr. Chen, who was Dr. Zuo's advisor at Purdue University, discussed using an inverse design approach for enclosed environments with different methods to model the...

Ph.D. student Jes Stershic received a scholarship to attend the Energy Service Coalition’s 8th Annual Market Transformation Conference, in Denver, CO, held August 21-23, 2019. According to Jes, "The Energy Service Coalition was a unique opportunity to meet and discuss guaranteed energy savings performance contracting (GESPC) with people from all...

Professor Rajan Rawal from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Building Science and Energy at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India gave a seminar on September 27, hosted by Prof. Wangda Zuo at CU Boulder. His talk on bringing thermal comfort in buildings to all, while improving building environmental and energy...

The 2019 Building Simulation conference hosted by the International Building Performance Simulation Association was held in Rome, September 2-4. Four presentations were delivered by members of the group: Enhancing the Implementation of a First-order Equivalent Thermal Parameter Model to Enable Accurate and Robust Building Thermal Response Prediction by Ph.D. student...

Dr. Zuo and Ph.D. student Katy Hinkelman attended the IBPSA Project 1 4th Expert Meeting in Rome, Italy on August 31 and September 1, 2019. The meeting covered ongoing work for the tasks related to project 1, inlcuding discussions and a hands-on training session. More information about this meeting can...

The 2019 Intelligent Building Operations Workshop was held in Boulder, August 7-9. Two presentations were given by members of the SBS lab: Large-scale Building Performance Simulations for Commercial Building Energy Standards by Ph.D. candidate Yunyang Ye, and A Modeling Framework to Evaluate Energy, Transportation, and Communication Interdependence in Smart and...