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On September 28th, Dr. Zuo and Ph.D. student Yizhi attended a web-meeting with Mr. Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto, Mayor of Makassar City, Indonesia, to discuss the latest updates of our Smart Garden Alleys project. Dr. Zuo introduced

SBS Lab member, Jing Wang, successfully defended her PhD dissertation on “Occupant-centric Modeling and Control for Low-carbon and Resilient Communities”. This dissertation aims to address a series of challenges surrounding low-carbon and resilient

The load scheduling of resilient communities in the islanded mode is subject to many uncertainties such as weather forecast errors and occupant behavior. In this paper, we investigated how occupants’ thermal preference would affect the optimal load

Dr. Zuo has been elected as a Fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) in 2021. This honor has been given to members of the association who have attained distinction in the field of building performance

Net-Zero Energy Communities (NZECs) are critical to assuring the sustainability and resilience of modernized power systems. In this paper, we present an open-source NZEC virtual testbed in Modelica based on a real NZEC in Florida, USA. A case study

As the new academic year approaches, students at �鶹��Ѱ�����Boulder elected new officers for the ASHRAE �鶹��Ѱ�����Boulder Student Branch. According to the votes, PhD students, Saranya Anbarasu, Cary Faulkner and Nasim Mamaghani will serve as President, Vice-

PhD student, Cary Faulkner, presented his research on "Physics-based Building System Modeling for Evaluation of Building Performance and Control" at a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) lunchtime webinar. In this presentation, he

�鶹��Ѱ�����Boulder has recently received $750,000 award from National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the industry-focused Center for Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST). BEST will bring together universities and industries to transform the

A 3-year international collaborative research project among SBS Lab at �鶹��Ѱ�����, University College Dublin and Ulster University has received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ireland Science

Chiller plants comprise more than half of the power consumption in commercial buildings and therefore any effort in improving their performance contributes significantly to the total energy savings. To address the needs of the building performance