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High Performance Buildings Research & Implementation Center (HiPerBRIC)

National Lab-Industry-University PartnershipNational Lab-Industry-University Partnership

February 5, 2008

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Outline

• Current Situation of Building Energy

Performance and Gaps

• HiPerBRIC Vision and Mission

• HiPerBRIC Role, Value and Differentiation

• HiPerBRIC Structure and Operations

• Action Plan and Next Steps

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Current Situation and Desired State

• Buildings are energy hogs• Energy consumption must decrease

by 50% in all retrofits and 90% in all new buildings by 2030

– Urgent problem– New construction– Retrofits

• Gaps in design processes– Modeling tools, design processes,

methods to achieve the 90% universally

• Gaps in operations– Controls, diagnostics, robustness,

“how buildings really operate”, data assimilation

• Neither gap has been a focus of R&D to date

– DOE has invested in incremental improvements of existing tools, methods and process

• Barriers in policy, economics and behavior

Narrow Wide

Shallow

Deep

Dep

thBreadth

Incremental change onexisting technology

Tighten standards; tune up& retrofit programs

e.g. ESCOs

Major advances incomponents

Limited deployment insystems

e.g. Research

Systems approach for integratingcomponents and optimizing for energyuse & cost

Market understanding and stakeholderinvolvement (private/publicpartnership)

Social equity, health, comfort,productivity issues

• Incremental and component level research cannot “solve” the problem

• Problem too large to be solved by a single entity

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Vision

Enable transformation of U.S. Commercial buildings sector in 20 years, starting NOW

– Save >4 Quads of energy and reduce >400 million tons of CO2 annually

• Reduction in energy consumption: 90% in new buildings; >50% in retrofits

– Enhance health, comfort, safety/security and water usage while gaining energy efficiency

Mission

– Team: Create a consortium to bring unique team of scientists, engineers and economists from

national lab, academia and industries to conduct comprehensive R&D, implementation, and

market transformation programs

– Technology: Use a systems approach to create scalable, fault tolerant, and robust

technologies for retrofit and new commercial buildings

– Training: Create facility for component and systems validation/testing; education; and training

– Transition: Engage and leverage all stake holders for implementation & policies

• Commercial Buildings Initiative (CBI); Federal & State Agencies; Utilities; Industry

Organizations (e.g. ASHRAE); A&E Firms; Building Materials and Equipment Suppliers;

Building Owners & Operators; ESCOs; Service Contractors; Advocacy Groups; Financial

HiPerBRIC Vision and Mission

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Value Derived From HiPerBRIC

Creation of infrastructure and an experimental facility to reduce risk in the commercial adoption of building technologies

Create a collaborative research facility for partnering among diverse stakeholders and building technology providers

Train a new generation of scientists and engineers with direct access to grand challenge problems and multi-disciplinary research issues pertaining to high performance buildings

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HiPerBRIC Value and Differentiation• Strategic

– Form a National Labs-Industry-Academia partnership that engages relevant stakeholders to provide the broad and deep R&D base needed to enable market transformation

• Technology– Focus on a systems approach to identify, develop and mature new enabling

hardware and software technology to facilitate commercialization and market adoption

• User Facility– Create a unique facility (physical infrastructure and virtual presence) to

evaluate, validate and mature new technologies in real buildings– Enable commercialization, education, and training

• People– Recruit and train a new generation of scientists and engineers and building

industry professionals educated in systems approach to energy efficiency• Jobs

– Create job growth through revitalizing the US commercial buildings industry, including suppliers, builders, building operators, architects

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HiPerBRIC: Outcome & Milestone Roadmap3 Years (2011) >50% reduction in energy consumption at the end of 3 years demonstrated in a “deep” retrofit with market-averaged payback Develop methods for scale-up with energy, health, comfort, and safety in mind Curriculum development tie-ins for training personnel Product communication protocols

5 years (2013) >70% reduction in energy consumption demonstrated in a “deep” retrofit with market-averaged payback >80% reduction in energy consumption demonstrated in a new building with cost of conserved carbon below onsite

new clean generation Demonstrate fully automated self-tuning continuous energy minimization at test facility with designed comfort and

indoor air quality Demonstrate moderate scale up Develop regional market transformation programs for buildings industry

8 years (2016) Tens to Hundred deep retrofit

with >50% reduction in energy consumption with market averaged payback

Tens of new buildings with 90% reduction in energy consumption with market averaged payback

10 years (2018) >100 buildings being deep-retrofitted (>50% reduction) with

market averaged payback time Deploying fully automated self-tuning continuous energy

minimization and indoor environment optimizing in retrofits and new buildings

Multiple service companies offering deep-retrofit capabilities with financing, remote monitoring, and performance guarantees

Scale up for new buildings design and construction towards zero net energy and designed indoor environment and security with market averaged payback time

Several dozen hardware and software products available from private sector enabled with BOP protocols, and plug-and-play capability

2011

NOW

2013

2016 2018 2030

AIA Challenge & CPUC GoalsAll new commercial buildings will be zero net energy

Technology Maturation; Implementation in Large Commercial Buildings; Domestic and International Scale up to Thousands Buildings

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HiPerBRIC Role & Differentiation: Systems of SystemsBasic Pre-Competitive R&D

Buildings Design& Energy Analysis

Windows & Lighting

Sensors, Controls

HVAC

Power Delivery &Demand Response

Demonstrations

Domestic/InternationalPolicies, Regulation,Standards, Markets

Natural Ventilation, Indoor Environment

Integration & Building Operating Platform(BOP) Team

Networks, Communications

Building Materials

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HiPerBRIC Technical Scope: Systems of Systems

CentralAir Conditioning/

Heat Pump

Local Thermal/Humidity Control

Sensor Modules• Occupancy• Temperature• Humidity• Air Quality• Light• Appliances

Sensor Modules• Occupancy• Temperature• Humidity• Air Quality• Light• Appliances

Lighting/WindowControl

Sunlight

AppliancePower Control

AppliancePower Control

ThermalStorage

ExternalVentilation

Capacity/TemperatureInfo

Outside AirTemperature/Humidity Info

Building Operating Platform (BOpP)Real-time optimization - consumption, cost, carbon footprint

ExternalPower

ElectricityTariffs &Carbon EmissionRates

Output• Energy Consumption• Integrated system performance• Component sub-metered performance

Goal• Zero energy building• Zero carbon building

OnsitePowerGeneration

Building Simulation,Modeling & Analysis(DOE-2; EnergyPlus)

Local Thermal/Humidity Control

Lighting/WindowControl

Coupled Interactions

CoupledInteractions

Current &Future Weather

Network Communication Layer

WasteHeat

ElectricityStorage

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From R&D to Commercialization

Lack of a Long Reach and Broad Scope in Technology and Business Model Exploration

Lack of a Demonstration Capability for Technology Maturation (TRL 2 to TRL6)

Lack of a System of Systems Engineering Methodology

Lack of Nontrivial System Architectures and Controls

Develop Collaboration Among Companies, National Labs and Universities in a pre-competitive basis

Create a Facility for Full Scale Demonstrations and Concentration of Talent

Develop Methodology, Tools and Training for System Level Design

Develop Energy Efficient Technologies and Renewables Optimized with Controls Technologies and Embedded Networks

EnablersBarriers

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Connect R&D to Markets

Commercialization

•UTC

•Carrier

•UTC Power

•Consortia Partners

R&D

•UTRC

•UC Berkeley

•LBL

•UC Santa Barbara

•Tsinghua

•CMU ABSIC

•UIUC ACRC

...

•Building scale demonstrations

•Systems of systems integration

•User demonstrations of tools & processes

•Early TRL maturation•Risk reduction

•Identification, exploitation and teaching of

technology synergies

HiPerBRIC Mission

•Identification & Maturation of Enabling Technology

•System Engineering

•Scalable Methodology & Tools

Bridge The Gap With Building Integration & Scale

HiPerBRIC Vision

•Completely transform the U.S. Commercial buildings sector in 20 years•Save >4 Quads of energy and reduce more than 400 million tons of CO2 annually •Reduction in energy consumption: 90% in new buildings; >50% in retrofits•Simultaneously improve health, comfort, safety, and energy

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HiPerBRIC Role Relative to Other Initiatives Complements and leverages other evolving commercial buildings programs

working towards 2030 net zero energy consumption

– Commercial Buildings Initiative (CBI) – loose confederation of activities to bring together the full spectrum of activities and players needed to transform the sector in order to reach 2030 targets; serves as broker, coordinator, convenor, collaborator, advocate for commercial buildings RDD&D; demonstration and deployment focus; business model focuses on building owners and users. New legislation (HR6) authorizes $20M in FY2008 growing to $200M in FY2011. CBI can provide key interface for HiPerBRIC to implementation performers and stakeholders.

– California PUC Strategic Plan for New Commercial Buildings– focused on new buildings demonstration and deployment activities through California investor owned utilities; includes promotion of integrated R&D and design as necessary to reach 2030 goals. HiPerBRIC clearly meets criteria for an ‘enabling initiative’ in current draft CPUC vision.

– Architecture 2030 – poses challenge to global architecture and building community to adopt a series of fossil fuel reduction targets for new and existing buildings by 2030. HiPerBRIC output will provide systems, tools and technologies to support these targets.

– Getting to 50 – resource to building community to achieve 50% improvement in energy efficiency of new building construction based on learning from success of 100 new commercial buildings with features that meet the 50% goal. HiPerBRIC will tap into these successes for feedback to research needs.

Getting to Fifty™

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HiPerBRIC Organization and Structure

HiPer BRICExecutive Director

Board of Directors

InternalSteering Committee

External Advisory Committee

UserFacility• Collaborative

Environment • Component

and Sub-system Testing

• Full-Scale System Testing

Education & Training

• Engage & facilitate education and vocational training for research and building operation

Codes/Standards, Best Practices, Policy

• Provide technical support for codes, standards, best practices, and policies for designing new buildings, retrofitting, and operating all buildings

Demonstration Projects

• Use hardware and software in real buildings to achieve roadmap milestones

Associate Exec. Director- ImplementationAssociate Exec. Director - Research

Energy Systems Office

• Tools that enable integrated architecture and energy system design

• Technologies that enhance and exploit new interfaces between subsystems to reduce energy consumption

Building Performance Office

• Technologies that enable system integration energy performance gains

• Test, validate, and deploy system level solutions that address roadmap

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HiPerBRIC DriversGrand Challenge Themes

Design– Low carbon footprint design of commercial buildings

Operation– Real-time optimized operation of commercial buildings

• Optimization for energy, carbon footprint, cost

• Constraints are health, comfort, indoor environment, water usage

Conduct workshops to• Identify projects to reflect midterm checkpoints on roadmap• Create diverse and multidisciplinary teams to execute projects

through the HiPerBRIC “System of Systems” approach

Conduct workshops to• Identify projects to reflect midterm checkpoints on roadmap• Create diverse and multidisciplinary teams to execute projects

through the HiPerBRIC “System of Systems” approach

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Challenge Problems and Technology Maturation

WorkshopsEnabling Technology

andTeaming

SeedlingTechnology Identification

& Proposals

Projects

Challenge Problems

Consortium Steering Committee

Unsolicited Proposals

Increasing scale (teams, resources, demonstrations)

DoD/NASADoD/NASAExampleExample

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HiPerBRIC Output

1. Identification of gaps in technology and policies based on demonstrations, field trials and market assessments

2. Intellectual property and hardware/software technologies for retrofitting, designing new buildings, and operating all buildings

3. Demonstrations, best practices, and know-how for broad scale deployment

4. Facility for users to validate, test hardware/software performance in realistic building environment to reduce risk and enable commercialization

5. Technological support for codes and standards

6. Education and training for scientists, engineers, architects and other building professionals

7. Formation of new joint ventures and business models to revitalize the buildings industry

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Consortium Membership

• Tier 1– $X/per year (Minimum 75% in cash)– Membership in board and steering committee– Participation in R&D teams

• Tier 2– $Y/per year (Minimum 75% in cash)– Participation in R&D teams

• Tier 3– $Z/per year (All cash)– Observer in Annual Meetings – First right of refusal on IP

• Intellectual Property– Team being put together to work on framework

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Potential Industry PartnersUTC Philips Lutron LeGrandOsram GE LaFargeOwens CorningDow Dupont PPG ApogeePella CRH PermasteelisaHoneywellSiemensIngersoll RandJohnson Controls3M Cisco IBM Google

Component and System ManufacturersStructureEnvelope enclosureGlazing and Fenestration systems, Shading systemsLighting: lamps, fixtures, controlsHVAC: heating, cooling equipmentHVAC: air and water thermal distribution systemsBuilding Controls and Energy Management SystemsBuilding TransportSecurity and safety systemsRefrigeration systemsIT Equipment, Data CentersOn-Site Power, CHP

Software and Tool SuppliersCAD/BIM vendors: Autodesk, Bentley,ÉCost estimatingConstruction management toolsFacilities Management tools

UtilitiesInvestor owned: PG&E, SCE, Southern,Municipal: SMUDGovernment: TVA

AECO FirmsArchitecture: e.g. HOK, SOM,ÉEngineering: e.g. Arup, Flack+Kurtz,ÉDesign/BuildContractors/Construction managers

Owners, InvestorsProperty developers, investors- portfolio managersCorporate- e.g. WalmartInsurance CompaniesPublic- GSA, DOD,

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Seed ProjectsEnergy Systems Office• Development of a Building Operating Platform (LBL) and (UCB), Funding : LBNL-LDRD ($150K);

Status - Funded

• Building Informatics Environment Enabling Rapid Prototyping and Model Extraction for Building Automation Systems LBNL), Funding: LBNL-LDRD ($150K); Status - Funded

• Development and Demonstration of Integrated Lighting Systems (LBNL), Funding: LBNL-LDRD ($150K); Status - Funded

Building Performance Office• Data Fusion for Building Diagnostics and Operations (LBNL), Funding: LBNL-LDRD ($150K);

Status - Funded

• Anomaly Detection and Decision Support Tools for Building Diagnostics (UTRC), Funding: UTRC-CSR ($400K); Status – Funded

• Demand Response/Energy Optimizing Controls Demonstration (LBNL/UTRC), Funding: NYSERDA + UTRC cost share; Status – Proposed

• Model-based Estimation of Dynamic Phenomena for Energy Efficient Building HVAC (UTRC) Funding: UTRC-CSR ($380K); Status – Proposed

• Data Assimilation for Model-Based Building Diagnostics and Control (UTRC) Funding: TBD proposal ($200K); Status – Being proposed

• Multi-scale Estimation for Indoor Environment Monitoring in Energy Efficient Buildings (UTRC) Funding: UTRC-CSR ($170K); Status – Proposed

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Action Plan

Vision Definition

Recruitment of partnersSecure support from funding

agencies

Shape Overall Plan Define Grand Challenges

Seed project planning

Preparation of Proposal for Funding Agencies

Workshop Defining Teams &Technology Gaps

Visit to Funding Agencies to present vision, enlist support

Influence 2009 funding cycle

Influence having proposals be part of funding agencies’ budgets for 2009Consortium Scope, Organization, Grand Challenges, Initial Results

Seed project execution

Project Reviews

ReviewProposalsSeed projects

Steering committee meeting to Review proposal and seed projects

VisionGrand ChallengesExternal Advocacy

OversightPartner recruitment

Gap AssessmentExternal EngagementConsortium feasibility Proposal Preparation

Seed project definition and

execution

End of year review

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Secure seed project funding

Plan Report Out

Challenge AreasReal Time Optimized Building Performance

Building Design for Carbon Footprint Reduction

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Next Steps

• WBCSD & Consortium Members– Define initial target list, create briefing material and approach partners (Feb. xx)

• DOE– Create briefing material, schedule visit, and coordinate with DOE High Performance

Buildings program and Commercial Buildings Initiative(Feb. xx)

• CPUC– Get feedback and coordinate with CPUC strategy (Feb. xx)

• CEC & PIER Program– Create briefing material and schedule communication (Feb. xx)

• HiPerBRIC Structure– Clarify membership tiering, funding model and develop framework for IP (Feb. xx)

• Workshop– Schedule, organize workshop to define teams and technology gaps to prosecute (Mar. xx)

• Seed Projects– Convene “steering committee”, review seed projects, decide funding (Mar. xx)

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Gaps & Opportunities

Narrow Wide

Shallow

DeepD

epth

Breadth

Incremental change onexisting technology

Tighten standards; tune up& retrofit programs

e.g. ESCOs

Major advances incomponents

Limited deployment insystems

e.g. Research

Systems approach for integratingcomponents and optimizing for energyuse & cost

Market understanding and stakeholderinvolvement (private/publicpartnership)

Social equity, health, comfort,productivity issues

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High Performance Buildings Research & Implementation Center (HiPerBRIC)

(Research Partnerships: LBNL, UCB, UCSB, UTC, …..)

HVAC

Lighting

Insulation &Building Materials

Glass & GlazingSystems

DOE

CEC

CPUC

INDUSTRIAL CONSORTIUM FEDERAL & STATE GOVT.

X XMATCHING FUNDS

USERSStartup Companies, National Lab folks, & Academic Researchers using Facility to try out new idea/concept/technology and evaluate its performance and impact on the whole building system

Others

SPONSORED RESEARCH TEAMS

Power Handling

Control Systems

Research Prioritization

CBI Umbrella• Utilities• Other State Agencies• Industry Orgs

(ASHRAE)• Building Construction• A& E firms• Building Materials &

Equipment Suppliers• Building Owners &

Operators• ESCOs• Service Contractors• Building Manager

Training• Advocacy

UTC

Technical Prioritization

Integration & BuildingOperating Platform

(BOP) Team

Buildings Design& Energy Analysis

Team

Windows & Lighting Team

Sensors, Networks,Communications

ControlsTeam

HVAC Team

Power Delivery &Demand Response

Team

DemonstrationTeam

Domestic/InternationalPolicies, Regulation,Standards, Markets

Indoor Environment Team

Natural VentilationTeam