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Essay:
Research institutes around the world
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- ECBCS: Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community
Systems
- An IEA program aimed at initiating research and
providing an international focus for building energy efficiency. Has 37 annexes that
focus on different aspects by international cooperation.
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- ORNL: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Tennessee-based government lab contains information from computational science and
transportational analysis to neutron scattering and the Human Genome Project.
- LBL Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- The famous LBL has a web site to publish its research programs and activities.
- AIVC: Air Infiltration and Ventilation
Centre
- Inaugurated by the International Energy
Agency (IEA) in 1979, the centre is to provide technical support and dissemination of
information.
- European Current
Research Information Systems
- List of state/federal research center pointers in Europe and a few other countries.
- VVT
- NBI: Norwegian Building
Research Institute
- the national research and development centre for the building and construction industry
established in 1949
- Energy Systems Laboratory
- Focus on studies of energy conservation and HVAC. Facilities: Air Flow Test Chambers,
Psychrometric Test Facility, Condensation and Boiling Lab, etc. Also LoanSTAR for energy
analysis.
- Concrete Materials and
Structures Laboratory
- This page is located in The University of Tokyo. The lab. "is actively involved in
studying the entire life of concrete based infrastructures".
- Intelligent Engineering Systems
Laboratory
- Netherland Energy Research
- The Energy Information on Internet (EII) database comprises 827 detailed descriptions
and characterizations of energy-related information sources that can be accessed through
Internet. Focused on Building Technology,
- Belgian Building Research Institute
- Applied scientific research and information institute for the Belgian construction
sector.
- BEPAC Building Environmental
Performance Analysis Club
- Its aim is to improve the quality of building performance by encouraging the use and
development of environmental analysis and prediction methods in building design and
assessment.
- BRE
- BRE is the UK's leading centre of expertise on building and construction, and the
prevention and control of fire
- Building and Fire Research Laboratory
- By NIST
- SBI: Danish Building Research Institute
- Daylighting
- Fraunhofer Institute for Building
Physics IBP
- deals with research, development, testing, demonstration and consulting
in all fields of building physics. Some online publication. (11/99).
Government Agency
- National Science Foundation: US
- Foundation promotes the progress of engineering in the United States in order to enable
the Nation's capacity to perform
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