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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the Women in ASHRAE Leadership Symposium in Chicago on September 26th and 27th! We're getting a…
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the Women in ASHRAE Leadership Symposium in Chicago on September 26th and 27th! We're getting a…
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🎉 Excited to announce that I'll be speaking at the The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) 2024 Summer Study on Energy…
🎉 Excited to announce that I'll be speaking at the The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) 2024 Summer Study on Energy…
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Executive Committee Member
ASHRAE Taskforce for Building Decarbonization
- Present 2 years 4 months
Science and Technology
Executive Committee Member, Currently chair the Products and Services Sub-Committee. The taskforce is charged with leading the development of and overseeing ASHRAE's decarbonization efforts across the entire society.
Publications
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Universal Design Space Exploration for Building Energy Design
Journal of Building Engineering
This paper proposes novel improvements to existing Design Space Exploration (DSE) workflows that enable detailed performance-analysis at the speed of design for all projects at little cost. The authors refer to this methodology as Universal Design Space Exploration (UDSE). Rather than apply DSE to a project-specific challenge, UDSE enables a single pre-simulated design space to be applicable across many projects. The novel scalability of these “universal” design spaces justify investment in…
This paper proposes novel improvements to existing Design Space Exploration (DSE) workflows that enable detailed performance-analysis at the speed of design for all projects at little cost. The authors refer to this methodology as Universal Design Space Exploration (UDSE). Rather than apply DSE to a project-specific challenge, UDSE enables a single pre-simulated design space to be applicable across many projects. The novel scalability of these “universal” design spaces justify investment in ML-powered apps that make pre-simulated analysis instantly accessible, affordable, and impactful across multiple projects. This research showcases the feasibility and potential benefit of UDSE by applying it to the challenge of early conceptual energy modeling. First, a group of experts crafts the input parameters and output metrics of a massive Design Space so that it encompasses the common problem. Then an automated parametric simulation workflow is developed to model and simulate any combination of input parameters. Several hundred thousand iterations are then simulated and analyzed. The result of this analysis guides the design of a prototype app which is powered by an AI surrogate model that allows users to receive instantaneous analysis about any design contained within the design space. This research shows that it is feasible to simulate the massive design spaces required by UDSE using currently available computational resources. We show that the surrogate modeling process is capable of accurately extending relatively limited simulation data to fully map the design space. We also show that these surrogate models can be effectively integrated into custom apps that can automate advanced DSE analysis and deliver insights to design teams in real-time. This paper concludes that UDSE offers a novel and scalable approach to early conceptual performance analysis.
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Total Carbon Study
http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/projects/total-carbon-study
The "Total Carbon Study" of the DPR San Francisco office was initiated by a group of embodied carbon and Life Cycle Assessment experts who tracked "total carbon" emissions of the net-positive energy performing retrofitted building. The case study project reported nearly 70% avoided embodied carbon emissions associated with building material supply chain when compared between a new construction and significantly reused existing building structure. Therefore: Reuse to the maximum amount possible,…
The "Total Carbon Study" of the DPR San Francisco office was initiated by a group of embodied carbon and Life Cycle Assessment experts who tracked "total carbon" emissions of the net-positive energy performing retrofitted building. The case study project reported nearly 70% avoided embodied carbon emissions associated with building material supply chain when compared between a new construction and significantly reused existing building structure. Therefore: Reuse to the maximum amount possible, and renovate to be net positive whenever conditions allow!
Languages
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German
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