Be part of conversations with a roster of local and global speakers covering topics from revitalizing urban infrastructure and designing community-oriented projects to pioneering handmade production processes. Learn more and purchase tickets at www.archandcity.org. 

This virtual workshop will be taught by CBE Researcher Paul Raftery, PhD, and focuses on designing commercial spaces with modern ceiling fans. Paul will share research findings from a recent $2M, 3-year California Energy Commission funded research grant, including the outcome of installing 99 automated fans at sites throughout the California Central Valley. The free workshop will also cover design sizing, selection criteria, an in-class exercise, and overview of additional resources.

This free workshop, organized by the C3.AI Digital Transformation Institute, will explore topics through a series of technical presentations and panel discussions by a diverse set of experts from academia and industry, including CBE’s Stefano Schiavon. With ubiquitous sensing, automation, control, huge data aggregations, and distributed intelligence, the Digital Transformation promises to make the built environment more efficient, healthy, safe, and productive. But what are the new vulnerabilities – privacy, security and health – that may come up in this process? 

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The University of Toronto’s Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering is hosting a Distinguished Lecture Series, available via Zoom. Join CBE researcher Professor Stefano Schiavon, PhD, as he discusses the future of conditioning the built environment. He will talk about strategies to reduce the impact of air conditioning and will show why electric fans can be both an alternative to and augmentation of air conditioning, and have the potential to simultaneously reduce energy use and increase thermal comfort.