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Our paper Literature Review on Modeling and Simulation of Energy Infrastructures from a Resilience Perspective led by PhD student Jing has been accepted by Reliability Engineering & System Safety. This is a recognition to her work by the resilience community. Congratulations to her and keep up! J. Wang , W...

On November 27, Dr. Angela Loder, Vice President of International WELL Building Institute, gave a guest lecture in Dr. Zuo's course AREN 5890 Sustainable Building Design. During the lecture, Dr. Loder introduced the Well Building Standard and how the standard aims to address human health and well-being. To learn more...

On Thursday, November 15, the annual event SimClub by IBPSA-Denver was held on CU campus. Graduate students from the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines gave short summaries of their current research projects. Five PhD students from our group presented their work titled: Equation-based Object-oriented Modeling and...

Professor Jeffrey Siegel from the University of Toronto visited our lab and discussed potential research collaborations on October 24th. Professor Siegel is fellow of ASHRAE and a member of the Academy of Fellows of ISIAQ. His research interests including healthy and sustainable buildings, ventilation and indoor air quality in residential...

Dr. Zuo was invited to speak at the “Panel of Current Research: Building Smart, Community-Based Decision-Making” at the Community Building Colorado-Style Conference in Boulder, CO, on October 19. Dr. Zuo gave a presentation titled “Novel Computational Framework for Optimal Planning of Smart, Sustainable, and Connected Communities” and discussed with the...

Dr. Zuo visited the headquarter of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in Chicago, IL on September 28th. He also gave an invited talk to introduce our research in modeling of smart and resilient cities. SOM is one of the largest and most influential architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban...

Dr. Zuo (Co-PI) is awarded a new NSF grant for their proposal “Planning IUCRC at University of Colorado Boulder: Center for Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST)”. The project is a joint effort led by Professor Moncef Krarti (PI) and a collaboration between CU Boulder, Arizona State University and City College...

This summer, 4 members of our lab had internships at national labs and industrial companies. Yangyang Fu and Jing Wang worked at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland. Yunyang Ye worked at PNNL, Portland site. Xu Han worked for Mitsubishi Electric in Boston. They all had a productive and...

Dr. Zuo received a new grant from the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory for his project titled “An Innovative Computational Platform for Robust and Optimal Operation of Renewable Energy Cities”. This is a joint project with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Congratulations!

Yangyang Fu has won the IBPSA-USA Scholarship of this year. He is the third winner of our group (after Sen and Wei) for this prestigious scholarship, which will provide him the travel support to attend the IBPSA-USA national conference in Chicago in September. This is a recognition of the excellent...