Research Scope and Funded Projects
The Sustainable Buildings and Societies Laboratory develops and applies multiple modeling and simulation tools to address application challenges ranging from buildings to cities.
Read more about our 30+ funded research projects:
Smart & Resilient Cities
The Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative Integrated Field Laboratory
Modernizing Cities via Smart Garden Alleys with Application in Makassar City
Biomimetic Integrated Community Energy and Power System (BICEPS)
Support for District Energy Simulation with Modelica
Virtual Electric Power Board (EPB)
Comprehensive Pliant Permissive Priority Optimization
An Innovative Computational Platform for Robust and Optimal Operation of Renewable Energy Cities
High Performance Buildings
Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Test Home Facility
Assessing Human Health and Well-being with the WELL Building Standard
Improving Data Center Energy Efficiency through End-to-End Cooling Modeling and Optimization
Virtual Reality for Building Design
Model Predictive Control for Chilled Water Plants
Design of an Energy and Water Efficient Hotel
Image Enhancement Techniques for Sonar Based Time-of-Flight Camera
International Collaborative Projects
U.S. - Ireland R&D Partnership: Intelligent Data Harvesting for Multi-Scale Building Stock Classification and Energy Performance Prediction (2021-2025)
Participating countries: Ireland, UK, USA
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Modernizing Cities Via Smart Garden Alleys with Application in Makassar City (2020-2024)
Participating Countries: Indonesia, India, USA
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International Building Performance Simulation (IBPSA) Project 1 (2017-2022)
International Energy Agency Annex 66 (2013-2017)
Definition and Simulation of Occupant Behavior in Building
Participating countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, USA
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International Energy Agency Annex 60 (2012-2017)
New generation computational tools for building and community energy systems based on the Modelica and Functional Mockup Interface standards
Participating countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, United Arab Emirates
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IBPSA Modelica Working Group (2023-Present)
IBPSA Modelica Working Group seeks to further develop the Modelica IBPSA Library and to coordinate the needs of the IBPSA community with the Modelica Association and with Modelica developers.
Participating countries: Germany, Belgium, USA, Japan, Denmark, Canada, India
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