Title: Maintaining One-to-One Contacts
Course: WGF 106 DEVELOPMENT > Section: Content

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The goal of this work is to identify the optimal methods for displaying building performance information, in order to influence commercial building occupants and managers to reduce resource use.

Significance to Industry

New data acquisition technologies and information visualization methods provide great opportunities to monitor and display building performance data. Together they provide the building industry with the potential to give feedback to commercial building occupants, managers, and other parties, and to encourage energy-saving behaviors.

A great deal of research has been conducted to evaluate the potential for energy conservation using information feedback to influence occupant behavior in residential buildings. Results of these studies show that immediate energy feedback can result in savings of 5-15%. However little research has been conducted on such feedback in commercial buildings, which present a greater challenge due to their greater complexity and diversity of users.
Links/Uploads
Visualizing Building Information – Center for the Built Environment http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/research/visualizing-info.htm

Human Interactions Research Topics

Center for the Built Environment  projects related to IEQ control and IT systems include:

- Demand Response Research
Developing technology for tomorrow’s dynamic electricity-pricing systems.
- Using Occupant Feedback to Improve Building Operations
A system to help facility managers utilize and respond to building occupant complaints.
- Plug Load Energy Study
Analyzing plug loads as a means of understanding and tightening the gap between simulated and actual energy use in buildings.
- Visualizing Building Information
Identifying the optimal methods for displaying building performance information to occupants, facility managers, and others.
- Visualizing Information Symposium
We co-sponsored a full-day symposium in April 2011 on the topic of "Information Visualization in Commercial Buildings: Design, Technology, and Human Behavior".
- Development of a Prototype Wireless Lighting Control System
This low-cost system may lead to short payback periods for energy-saving lighting retrofits.
- Wireless Measurement and Control of the Indoor Environment in Buildings
Enhanced control systems that may reduce wiring costs and lead to potentially more optimal systems.
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