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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.

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

Embedded Intelligence in Buildings

Building Integration with Smart Grid

Ongoing
Developing a next generation "smart grid" requires new measurement science and industry standards that enable homes and buildings to interact with the grid. In

Intelligent Building Agents

Ongoing
Achieving national goals of net zero energy buildings requires substantial reduction in the energy consumption of commercial building systems. Although

Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings

Water Use in High-Performance Buildings

Ongoing
The objective of EL’s Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings research program is to advance measurement science to move the nation toward net-zero energy

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

The Data Alignment Tool (DAT) was built to assist with the analysis of data used in testing fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) tools and building

Awards

Contacts