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Kevin Kennon, founder of Kevin Kennon Architects in 2001 shares his insight to some of the top strangest buildings from around the world. This is a continuation from his last presentation. Here is the previous slide share http://www.slideshare.net/k_kennon/top-strangest-buildings-part-1
To Measure Not Model: Case Study -- Purdue University Center for High Perform...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
AEI / Affiliated Engineers, Inc. presents the Purdue University Center for High Performance Design at the Ray W. Herrick Labs, a 68,000 square foot research building focused on systems and environments that improve building performance. Laboratories and research areas include:
• The Perception-Based Engineering Laboratory enables cross-disciplinary research that measures human behavior against an array of stimuli such as lighting, acoustic environment, air quality, temperature, humidity, airflow, and vibration.
• The Electro-Mechanical Vibrations Area allows for both large-scale testing (e.g., aerospace components) and fine-scale testing (e.g., microprocessor scale) with exceptional isolation of vibration and sound.
• Geoexchange research includes ground/earth analysis and simulation.
• Thermal sciences research includes the development of new HVAC technologies, including the use of psychrometric chambers, indoor air quality chambers, wind tunnels, solar thermal arrays, benchtop experiments, and simulated environmental testing.
• The unique Living Laboratory office wing serves as both working office space and as a test site for building systems and concepts.
• The Powertrain/Engine Test Cell Wing is dedicated to testing alternative fuels and emissions to advance engine fuel economy, horsepower, and torque.
Kevin Kennon, founder of Kevin Kennon Architects in 2001 shares his insight to some of the top strangest buildings from around the world. This is a continuation from his last presentation. Here is the previous slide share http://www.slideshare.net/k_kennon/top-strangest-buildings-part-1
To Measure Not Model: Case Study -- Purdue University Center for High Perform...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
AEI / Affiliated Engineers, Inc. presents the Purdue University Center for High Performance Design at the Ray W. Herrick Labs, a 68,000 square foot research building focused on systems and environments that improve building performance. Laboratories and research areas include:
• The Perception-Based Engineering Laboratory enables cross-disciplinary research that measures human behavior against an array of stimuli such as lighting, acoustic environment, air quality, temperature, humidity, airflow, and vibration.
• The Electro-Mechanical Vibrations Area allows for both large-scale testing (e.g., aerospace components) and fine-scale testing (e.g., microprocessor scale) with exceptional isolation of vibration and sound.
• Geoexchange research includes ground/earth analysis and simulation.
• Thermal sciences research includes the development of new HVAC technologies, including the use of psychrometric chambers, indoor air quality chambers, wind tunnels, solar thermal arrays, benchtop experiments, and simulated environmental testing.
• The unique Living Laboratory office wing serves as both working office space and as a test site for building systems and concepts.
• The Powertrain/Engine Test Cell Wing is dedicated to testing alternative fuels and emissions to advance engine fuel economy, horsepower, and torque.
Energy Security on a Barrier Island: The University of Texas Medical Branch H...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
In September 2008, Hurricane Ike flooded over one million square feet of University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston campus buildings to depths of six feet, interrupting and damaging electrical power, emergency generators, natural gas, chilled water, and municipal water and sewer. Submerged in seawater, the steam distribution system was a complete loss.
AEI supported UTMB recovery efforts with assessments helping to secure FEMA funding. The long-term opportunity created by Ike, however, has been to simultaneously optimize capital investment and operational spending with engineered resiliency and efficiency, to thrive as well as survive on this coastal island.
Rather than replacing in kind, AEI and UTMB established an approach that would protect utility sources by elevating boilers and chillers or protecting them with floodwalls; supplement outside electrical utilities with 15MW of on-site microgrid combined heat and power (CHP); and, replace much of the existing steam system with a more resilient and efficient district hot water system.
50% more efficient than conventional systems, UTMB's two new CHP plants will save approximately $3 million annually, with a 5-year simple payback. Direct buried and routed overhead, over five miles of highly corrosion-resistant hot water piping is expected to save over 10% of the heating load through lower line losses alone, while reducing susceptibility to storm damage.
Laboratory Equipment: Capturing the Last 50% of Energy Cost Savings in Resear...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
Looking beyond designing efficient buildings, describes how engineers and clients can reduce energy use by making energy-conscious equipment selections.
On technology transfer: experience from the CARP project... and beyonddividiti
I am Anton Lokhmotov, Founder and CEO of dividiti (http://dividiti.com).
On 17 September 2015, I gave an invited industrial day talk at the Lorentz Center workshop on Verification of Concurrent and Distributed Software. Even though an outsider to the verification community, I could sense that this community craves insights into how to succeed with transferring technology from academia into industry (unlike academics who get frustrated when thinking about commercialisation).
As our story of long term collaboration with Alastair Donaldson of Imperial College London illustrates, technology transfer rules are actually simple. First, accept that rigorous evaluation and reproducibility are essential for research excellence ("corroborate"). Second, on top of your research excellence, create a push from academia and a pull into industry for your technology ("collaborate").
If you adhere to these rules in your research, you will achieve technology transfer as a natural by-product; so natural, in fact, that the push and pull actions will merge to become a flow. Stimulating such flows - by sharing experience and proving encouragement across the community - should lead to excellent research making more impact on our lives.
High Performance Buildings: Meeting Operational Expectations with Constrained...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
Industry drivers and new technology are bringing change in building design and operations. High performance building design is an outcome of this. Design trends are introducing new systems, and resource-constrained operations staff need the right tools to manage the change and sustain the promised savings. Intelligent building strategies and tools harness existing resources in powerful ways -- maximizing the value of systems and enabling owners to capture the knowledge of an aging workforce.
Energy and Water: the Dynamic Duo for the Future of Efficient Science Infrast...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
Increasing energy costs and water scarcity together will play a greater role in building design in the future. There has been significant energy saving progress over the last decade. There are new opportunities for owners and their design teams to find greater savings in the future.
AEI / Affiliated Engineers Presents Two Oregon State Hospital Projects at Cle...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
AEI presents energy conservation measures (ECMs) used in two Oregon State Hospital projects, including: active chilled beams, natural ventilation, geoexchange heat recovery systems, and demand-control ventilation/lighting. Also discusses why modeled and measured energy use intensity sometimes differ.
Emerging Hazards: Renewables and Microgrids, U.S. Department of Energy, Energ...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
AEI / Affiliated Engineers presents the Energy Systems Integration Facility, a 182,500 square foot building that provides laboratory and research space for 200 scientists and staff working on promising clean energy technologies and testing their interaction with each other and the grid. Specific areas of research include:
• Smart grids, power electronics.
• Solar: interconnection, parabolic solar concentrators, building integration, and system optimization.
• Buildings: sensors and controls, systems integration, modeling, and Zero Energy Building simulation.
• Hydrogen: electrical interfaces, electrolyzers, storage, quality standards, fueling systems, fuel cell integration.
• Wind: models, generation, and grid interaction, electrical grid analysis.
• Vehicles: grid connected plug-in and vehicle-to-grid electrical integration, battery thermal management, and power electronics.
• Biofuels: generator sets and engines.
• Energy storage: electrical, mechanical, and thermal.
• Microturbines.
AEI’s work included the design of:
• Research Electrical Distribution Bus (REDB): A first-of-its-kind, the REBD is a power integration circuit made up of two AC and two DC ring buses that interconnects testing components across the building’s 15 laboratories. Researchers can test new energy technologies on real and simulated power systems.
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System: Integrated throughout the facility, the SCADA monitors and controls the REDB operations and gathers real-time, high-resolution data for collaboration and visualization. The SCADA also monitors SIL-2 (Safety Integrity Level) rated laboratory PLCs providing emergency stop functionality, gas detection, alarming (horns and lights), and other required safety measures. These systems are all interconnected with the fire alarm, building automation system, and local lab equipment to provide a seamless facility response across systems to various conditions.
Microgrid / Smartgrid Research Facility US Department of Energy, Energy Syste...AEI / Affiliated Engineers
AEI / Affiliated Engineers presents
• Research and associated infrastructure needed to advance smartgrids and microgrids.
• DC components and power converters and their associated challenges and hazards.
• Key challenges in optimizing safe, reliable and sustainable smartgrids and microgrids.
