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SBS Lab Member Hongjun Li Receives Prestigious Scholarship

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SBS lab member and new Ph.D. student Hongjun Li received the prestigious University Graduate Fellowship in the Pennsylvania State College of Engineering. This was given in recognition of his strong academic record and served to enable him to establish his research and other activities. This is a great start to Hongjun’s time with the lab. He has a Master degree in Architecture from Tsinghua University with a research focus on distributed urban energy systems. His Ph.D. work will be in Architectural Engineering with research on Modelica-based modeling for the design and control of advanced building energy systems.

1st International Conference of Net Zero Carbon Built Environment Begins

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The 1st International Conference of Net Zero Carbon Built Environment began at the University of Nottingham. It is running from July 3 – 5, 2024. The conference has more than 200 delegates and will be a great opportunity to learn and have great discussions.

This conference is supported by Pennsylvania State University as well as University of Nottingham, University of Adelaide, Technical University of Crete, Center for Postdoctoral development in Infrastructure, Cities, and Energy, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. We are happy to have SBS lab professor Wangda Zuo serving as co-chair alongside Prof. Yupeng Wu (University of Nottingham), Prof. Veronica Soebarto (University of Adelaide), and Prof. Dionysia Kolokotsa (Technical University of Crete). We are excited to learn more from our peers around the globe at this conference and look forward to future conferences. We appreciate all the people who worked hard to put on this amazing conference.