News

SBS Lab alumnus, Dr. Sen Huang , has been selected as the Vice-Chair of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technical Committee (TC) 7.4, Exergy Analysis for Sustainable Buildings. TC 7.4 is concerned with all exergy aspects of energy and power utilization of systems and equipment...

The IBPSA-Denver student night event is coming. The online event is on May 20th, 2021. Our lab members Cary Faulkner, Chengliang (Leo) Fan , Jing Wang , Katy Hinkelman , and Yingli Lou will give a presentation at that time. Looking forwards to the coming event! More information is available here .

Ph.D. student Tom receives the 2021 ASHRAE Award from the University of Miami. Congratulations to Tom for winning this distinguished award!

Ph.D. student Saranya receives the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. This fellowship will provide her a $7,725 stipend for this summer. Congratulation to Saranya for receiving this prestigious fellowship!

Katy wins a $20k P.E.O. Scholar Award for the 2021-2022 academic year. She is one of the 100 women out of 847 nominees selected to receive this award. The award notification letter said“Being selected as a P.E.O. Scholar is a prestigious addition to your outstanding record. Your scholarly excellence, academic...

DOE posts an article about our data center project. This project was funded by a 2016 award from DOE's Building Technologies Office (BTO). With help from Berkeley Lab and Schneider Electric, we developed the Data Center Toolkit : an open-source modeling platform that can be used to optimally manage data-center...

Matthew Strong Wins two prestigious awards: the Research award and Active learning program award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science for the year 2021. The Research Award recognizes undergraduate students with demonstrated excellence in research that extends progress in a given field, exhibits new knowledge, societal and financial...

PhD student Jake Castellini receives Mechanical Engineering Summer Fellowship 2021 from the CU Boulder Graduate School. The Graduate School offers fellowships to one student from each doctoral program, to provide support during the summer term. Jake will receive stipend benefits for the three summer months. Congratulations Jake!

Ph.D. student Yingli Lou receive ASHRAE Rocky Mountain Chapter Student Scholarship . The regional ASHRAE chapter at Denver awards scholarships to students from area Universities who demonstrate an interest in HVAC&R, financial need, “smarts”, and good communication skills. Congratulation to Yingli for winning the Chapter scholarship !!

We are excited to open source release our building energy models for commercial buildings based on CBECS data. As an outcome of our 4-year research project supported by ASHRAE , it contains 540 EnergyPlus models for 18 building types, including three new models for Religious Worship, College/University, and Auto Repair...