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Space-conditioning equipment accounts for 32 % of electricity use in homes and 17 % in commercial buildings , annually costing $49 Billion and $21 Billion USD
To develop and deploy measurement science tools that enable the manufacturing, construction, and transportation industries to reliably assess the performance of
Structural engineers are increasingly using Performance-Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE), instead of building code-based prescriptive procedures, in the design
Building ventilation and indoor air quality (IAQ) performance must account for many new challenges related to sustainability and resilience goals, including
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