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CBE's technology development and design guidance are improving building energy performance and occupant satisfaction.
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Our research is conducted in collaboration with industry leaders representing the diversity of the commercial building sector.
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CBE's online tools support advanced simulation and understanding of building energy performance and occupant experience.
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Recognizing projects that demonstrate high occupant satisfaction, sustainable design and innovative operation strategies.

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CBE is a place where prominent industry leaders and internationally recognized researchers cooperate to produce substantial, holistic, and far-sighted research on buildings. Together we work to improve the performance of buildings by providing timely, unbiased information on building technologies and design and operation techniques.

From CBE's Centerline

New Online Design Tool Enables Accurate Design with Ceiling Fans

New CBE Partner McKinstry Offers Expertise from Design through Operation

CBE Researchers to Share New Results and Tools at ASHRAE Orlando 2020

CBE’s 2019 Year in Review: Expanding Membership, Results and Building Performance Tools

Living Building Award Bluestone Elementary School photo by Lincoln Barbour

CBE Announces Winners of 2019 Livable Buildings Awards

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From CBE's Centerline

CBE’s 2019 Year in Review
CBE's research team is celebrating some 2019 accomplishments and milestones along our path to improve the way buildings are designed, operated and occupied.
2019 Livable Building Awards Announced
Bluestone Elementary School and HGA's San Francisco were recognized for excellence in architectural design, sustainability and occupant satisfaction.
CallisonRTKL (CRTKL) Joins CBE Consortium
CRTKL joined CBE this fall with a goal of collaboration with academia on the creation of today's high-performance buildings and moving forward on tomorrow’s regenerative buildings.
Symposium on Optimizing Radiant Systems
View speakers' slide decks from this event, including engineers, architects, builders and others who are creating high-performing buildings with radiant systems, and the results of a multi-year study completed at CBE.
Measuring Workplace Productivity: Key Variables and Future Directions
Studies suggest that some green building features may improve employee productivity. Research by CBE and others have contributed to our collective understanding of workplace productivity, this post describes related work with a focus on key variables.
CBE Rad Tool Enables Better Design of High-Mass Radiant Systems
CBE created an interactive web-based tool for early design of high thermal mass radiant systems, to predict steady-state conditions for both heating and cooling. However its power is in its ability to predict dynamic performance for cooling.
New Methods for Design-phase Analysis of Daylighting, Ventilation and Comfort
The gap between predicted and measured building performance poses an ongoing challenge. Because reliable methods for predicting building performance are critical to addressing this challenge, CBE is developing and testing new approaches to building performance simulation.
CBE Research Collaboration Featured in New Video
CBE has produced a short video to showcase how our research team works with a diverse community of industry leaders to advance new technologies and promising design and operation strategies.

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