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Strategic Goal: High Performance Building Systems
To enable the design and operation of cost-effective building systems that deliver healthy and comfortable indoor environments through advances in measurement science and in technical support of industry-consensus standards and guidelines.
EL research advances progress toward greater performance in the built environment. Our programs focus on cross-cutting technical work such as metrics and assessment tools; approaches to achieve improved indoor environmental quality with cost savings; and life cycle performance prediction and assessment tools.
Through research that stretches the limits of measurement science and pushes the envelope of current measurement and test capabilities, EL will:
- Improve building operations to achieve high-performance, occupant comfort, and safety by clearing technical hurdles that impede widespread use of intelligent building systems;
- Underpin significant U.S. progress toward realizing high-performance buildings with a healthy indoor environment; and
- Deliver standards and tools key to achieving high-performance building systems.