CPES Sustainable Building Design Initiative (SBDI) to begin July 2009
CPES, in collaboration with the Interior Design Program in the School of Architecture Design, has won a funding award from The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. The purpose of ICTAS is to support and promote cutting edge research at the intersection of engineering, science and medicine.
The collaborative project, “Sustainable Building Design Initiative,” will concentrate on finding integrative solutions to satisfy the energy, functional, and aesthetic goals. The major goal is to develop and implement a “living lab” that will provide simulated environment for research, evaluation, and demonstration of advanced technologies for sustainable buildings. The site of the “living lab” will be the home of CPES in Whittemore Hall at Virginia Tech.
Building upon the Center’s Sustainable Building Initiative (SBI) that has been focused on the development and demonstration of advanced power electronics technology for electrical systems in sustainable building, CPES will further develop a DC-based renewable energy powered system as a testbed for future sustainable home electric power system. The renewable and alternative energy sources would include primarily photovoltaic solar cells, wind generators, micro-turbines, fuel cells, and energy storage.
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The 2-year SBDI project will begin on July 1, 2009.