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Engineering Laboratory

# Building Energy & Environment Division

The Building Energy & Environment Division enables cost-effective, energy-efficient, grid-integrated buildings that have healthy and comfortable indoor environments and reduced environmental impacts through advances in measurement science and standards development.

-  Groups  Expand or Collapse    -  HVAC&R Equipment Performance Group 
  -  Mechanical Systems & Controls 
  -  Heat Transfer & Alternative Energy Systems 
  -  Indoor Air Quality & Ventilation 
-  Program/Projects  Expand or Collapse    -  Embedded Intelligence in Buildings 
  -  Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings 
-  Products & Services  Expand or Collapse    -  CONTAM – Building Airflow and Contaminant Transport Model 
  -  EVAP-COND Simulation Models for Finned-Tube Heat Exchangers 
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## Groups

                        - Heat Transfer and Alternative Energy Systems Group
                        - HVAC&R Equipment Performance Group
                        - Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group
                        - Mechanical Systems and Controls Group
                        - NIST Multizone Modeling

Through extensive publications and active participation in consensus organizations such as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the Fully Integrated and Automated Technology Consortium, research results from the Division are disseminated to the private sector in a timely manner and provide the basis for many consensus standards used throughout the building industry.

## News and Updates

### Live Christmas Trees Affect Indoor Air Chemistry, NIST Researchers Find

December 22, 2023

### Spotlight: Using Robots to Assess Photovoltaic Cells

October 4, 2023

### NIST’s Indoor CO2 Tool Can Help Assess Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality

July 19, 2022

### Spotlight: Overhauling the Refrigeration Industry to Fight Global Warming

June 26, 2022

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## Embedded Intelligence in Buildings

### Embedded Intelligence in Buildings Program

### Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics for the Mechanical Services in Commercial Buildings

### Building Integration with Smart Grid

### Commissioning Building Systems for Improved Energy Performance

### Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Air-Conditioners and Heat Pumps

### Intelligent Building Agents

### Semantic Interoperability for Building Data

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## Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings

### Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings Program

### Assessment of High-Temperature and Innovative Insulation Thermal Performance

### Contaminant Control in High-Performance Buildings

### Electrical Performance Measurements of Solar Photovoltaic Cells and Arrays

### Flammability Metrics for New Low-GWP Refrigerants

### Low-GWP Refrigerants for High-Efficiency HVAC&R Equipment

### Measurement Science for Service Life Prediction of Polymeric Components Used in Photovoltaic (PV) Systems

### Air Distribution Impacts in Net-Zero Energy Homes

### Measuring the Performance of Net-Zero Energy Homes

### Metrics and Tools for Sustainable Buildings

### Space-Conditioning Options for Energy-Efficient Buildings

### Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Low-Energy Buildings

### Water Use in High-Performance Buildings

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## Software

### HVAC-Cx Building HVAC Systems Commissioning Tool

November 30, 2022

### The NIST Data Alignment Tool

August 12, 2022

### ViPER - Virus Particle Exposure in Residences

November 22, 2021

### HVAC SIMulation PLUS other systems (HVACSIM+)

May 11, 2021

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## Awards

### 2023 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Luis Luyo, Glen Glaeser, Tyler Gervasio, Michael Beacham

### 2023 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Mark McLinden, Ian Bell, Tara Fortin, Marcia Huber, Mark Kedzierski, Gregory Linteris, Stephanie Outcalt, William Vance Payne II, Aaron Rowane, Harrison Skye

### 2019 - Best Paper---Bell, Domanski, Linteris, and McLinden

### Lisa Ng Receives Drexel University 2023 Excellence in Co-Operative Education Award

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## Contacts

                -  David A. Yashar  david.yashar@nist.gov      (301) 975-5868   

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