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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

Designing for Experiential Delight

CBE’s New Partner Leaders Reflect on Increasing CBE’s Impact

CBE and SERA Collaborate on new Biophilia Survey Module

Lear Innovation Ventures: Driving the Future of Mobile Environments

Berkeley Lab air quality image showing smoke and clean air

Using IoT Sensing to Determine the Resilience of Buildings to Wildfire Pollution

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From CBE's Centerline

CBE and SERA Collaborate on new Biophilia Survey Module
Biophilia has inspired wide-ranging research on the benefits of human connection with nature. CBE and SERA Architects are jointly developing a biophilia occupant survey to evaluate the impact of biophilic features in workspaces.
New Partner Red Car Analytics: Solutions to Decarbonize Today’s Buildings
Joining CBE this spring, Red Car Analytics specializes in building systems advising, performance diagnostics, policy and research, commissioning and energy modeling. Their mission is to support effective solutions to decarbonize today’s buildings.
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.
New R&D Collaborations on Building Analysis Tools and Occupant-Centric Controls
This spring CBE’s research team received funding to support two new projects that will create new ways to gather, analyze and monetize data from commercial buildings, yielding energy cost savings and more comfort for building users.
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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