Draft2:Consortium for Building Energy Innovation
Template:Stub noticeThe Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI) was a multidisciplinary collaboration of universities, private sector technology companies, and economic development agencies formed to focus on developing solutions to address the energy efficiency retrofit challenges in the small- and medium-sized commercial building (SMSCB) market.
The Penn State Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (formerly the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub) worked to address the unique and complex challenges of building energy efficiency and to accelerate the Consortium’s national impact in the building retrofit market.
This market accounts for 99% of all existing commercial buildings and approximately half of commercial building energy use. CBEI was in place from 2011 – 2016.
DOE's role
The Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI) was established through a Funding Opportunity Announcement led by the U.S. Department of Energy, under a cooperative agreement managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory.
DOE Award Number: DE – EE0004261
Mission
CBEI primarily focused on developing energy efficiency solutions for the small and medium commercial building market, with a focus on buildings less than 50,000 square feet. This market has been underserved by the energy efficiency industry, which has focused on larger commercial buildings where the scale of an individual retrofit lends itself to the use of sophisticated modeling tools and more advanced solutions. Owners/operators and retrofit providers for larger buildings have a greater level of understanding of, and experience with different solutions. In contrast, smaller commercial building retrofits, like residential retrofits, often have owners with less knowledge about energy management and less time to learn about it. This market segment is also served by retrofit providers that are smaller and often focused on particular building systems, e.g. heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, roofing, or insulation. The size of a smaller commercial building retrofit does not lend itself, from a cost perspective, to the application of multiple, sophisticated design and modeling tools, which means that they are less likely to have integrated solutions.
History
In February 2010, a Funding Opportunity Announcement was jointly published by the U.S. Department of Energy, U. S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology/Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Department of Labor, Department of Education, Small Business Administration, and National Science Foundation. The focus of the FOA was to create a consortium to develop, expand, and commercialize innovative energy efficient building systems technologies, designs, and best practices in a regional setting for national and international distribution. In response to this FOA, the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) built a consortium of academic institutions, private sector companies, and economic development agencies to focus on the challenges of the market. The PSU-led consortium had several names over the five-year cooperative agreement, including the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC), the Energy Efficiency Buildings Hub (EEB Hub), and finally the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (referred to subsequently in this report as CBEI). The Consortium partners varied over the five years as CBEI direction evolved; however, fourteen core partners participated throughout the five years. Throughout the five years of the agreement, the core partners contributed members of the governing Executive Board as well as senior researchers, who served as Task Leads.
Stakeholders
- Balfour Beatty
- Ben Franklin Technology Partners
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Collegiate Consortium
- Covestro (formerly Bayer Material Sciences)
- Drexel University
- Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC)
- IBM
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Morgan State University
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Pennsylvania College of Technology
- Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
- PPG
- Project Based Learning, Inc.
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Rutgers University
- United Technologies Research Center (UTRC)
- University City Science Center
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- Virginia Tech
Related links
- Better Buildings
- State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action)
- Better Buildings Alliance
- Better Buildings Accelerators
External links
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/commercial-buildings-partnerships
- https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/alliance/market-solutions/energy-data-access
- https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/partners/consortium-building-energy-innovation-cbei
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/cbei-transitioning-technology-market-2015-peer-review
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/cbei-lessons-learned-integrated-retrofits-small-and-medium-sized-commercial
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/market-engagement-overview-2015-bto-peer-review
- https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1329006/
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/cbei-enhancing-openstudio-airflow-and-daylight-modeling-2015-peer-review
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/cbei-improving-benchmarking-data-quality-2015-peer-review
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