Berkeley Lab workshop summer 2019
Berkeley Lab hosted the Collaborative’s first workshop in Berkeley, California on 22 - 23 July 2019. Over the course of the two-day workshop, members shared their research and implementation activities; finalized the Collaborative’s mission, goals, and scope; identified its activities and structure; and discussed barriers and opportunities for advancing its goals.
Outcomes
The workshop featured breakout groups and several discussion sessions to hear ideas from participants on how to advance the Collaborative's goals and finalize the Collaborative's scope. Online here is the workshop summary describing the workshop outcomes.
Participants conveyed the urgency and importance of passive and low-energy cooling measures. To that end, participants discussed the need to share what we know now by consolidating best practices by climate, building type, building vintage, and building occupancy. We recognize that the regional variability of best practices is driven by the aforementioned factors as well as market availability and costs. Participants agreed to assess and document co-benefits to further strengthen the case for these cooling measures. Participants also agreed to clearly communicate the limitations of cooling measures to assure they are used appropriately.
Participants will develop common metrics, methods, and databases to facilitate international collaboration. Participants shared the desire to better understand the relationship between indoor heat exposure and human health. Also, participants identified the need to expand our alliances to other sectors, such as real estate, industry, insurance, and utilities, and to continue to engage with other disciplines, such as anthropology and biometeorology (study of relationship between weather and living organisms).
Participants plan to carry out research to learn how to make building cooling measures attractive to consumers. That is, how can we market health and comfort? Participants also agreed there is a need to better understand how passive cooling measures can be combined with heat metrics, such as daily maximum temperature or number of annual heat health events, to inform guidance, standards, and practices for building design and city planning.
Presentations
The workshop agenda can be found online here and all workshop presentations are posted below.
Welcome Remarks |
Tom Kirchstetter Director, Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
Logistics, History, & Big Picture |
Ronnen Levinson, Ellen Thomas, Haley Gilbert Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
How do Energy Efficiency Measures Influence Resilience? A Case Study |
Kaiyu Sun Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
Emerging Technologies in High Performance Facades | Charlie Ćurčija
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
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Andrea Nicolini
University of Perugia Perugia, Italy |
Development and Assessment of Advanced Material Components of the Building Envelope to Improve the Energy Performances of Buildings and Thermal Comfort for Users |
Chiara Ferrari
Rome, Italy (on behalf of Michele Zinzi of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, ENEA) |
Move Air, Then Cool It - Integrating Air Movement for Energy Efficient Comfort
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Dana Miller Center for Built Environment, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
Implementation Strategies of Adaptation Measures for Extreme High Temperature |
Hideki Takebayashi Kobe University Kobe, Japan |
Responsive Control of Urban Thermal Environments – ResCUE | Yogendra Joshi
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia |
Cal-Thrives: A California Toolkit for Heat Resiliency In Vulnerable Environments |
Max Wei Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
Engaging Residents in Fresno, California to Optimize Building Cooling |
Haley Gilbert (on behalf of Susan Mazur-Stommen of Indicia Consulting)
Consultant to Indicia & Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Whitefish, Montana, U.S.A. |
U.S. participation in International Energy Administration Annex 80 (Resilient Cooling) | Ronnen Levinson
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
Local Cooling Strategies in the U.S. |
Victoria Ludwig U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D.C., U.S.A. |
Making Telangana a Cool State: State-Wide Cool Roof Program
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Rajkiran Bilolikar
Administrative Staff College of India Hyderabad, India |
Shelley Jiang
Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District Sacramento, California, U.S.A. |
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Passive Cooling Policy, Technology and Strategy | Marc LaFrance
Building Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C., U.S.A. |
Urban Climatic Mitigation/Adaptation Activities in the High Performance |
Gloria Pignatta
University of New South Wales, Sydney Sydney, Australia |
Cool Roof Activities at IIIT Hyderabad | Vishal Garg
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Hyderabad, India |
EELab Activities: Focus on Indoor Comfort
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Chiara Ferrari
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy |
California Strategic Growth Council: Climate Research Priorities |
Leah Fisher California Strategic Growth Council Sacramento, California, U.S.A. |
The Social Dimensions of Urban Heat |
Jason Vargo California Department of Public Health Richmond, California, U.S.A. |
Heat and Health in a Changing Climate—Building Decision Support Tools for Public Health Officials |
Nikolas Steinberg Four Twenty Seven Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
A Public Health Approach to Healthier Homes: Energy Efficiency and |
Brandon Kitagawa Regional Asthma Management & Prevention, Oakland, California, U.S.A. |
Assessing the Impact of Urban Environment on Comfort in Buildings |
Marjorie Musy Cerema Bron, France |
Retro-Reflective Facade for Inside/Outside Built Environment |
Masayuki Ichinose Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan |
Effect of Heat Mitigation Strategy Adoption on Outdoor and Indoor |
George Ban-Weiss University of Southern California Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. |
Finalize Collaborative Mission, Goals, Structure, and Activities; Identify Next Steps | Haley Gilbert & Ronnen Levinson
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |