Title: Net-Zero-Energy Buildings and Communities: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Dr. Tianzhen Hong（Staff Scientist and Principal Investigator of Building Technology and Urban Systems Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL.)

Time:  Sep. 12th, 2016, Monday, 16:00--17:30

Venue: The first floor, multimedia classroom of Building NO.6

Organizer: School of Architecture,  SCUT

Brife introduction of the lecture:

There are more encouraging research, applications and investment in net-zero-energy (ZNE) buildings and communities in the United States, China, and Europe. New and more affordable technologies, including wireless sensing, monitoring, data analytics, smart energy systems, are deployed in buildings in an integrative system approach to reduce energy use and carbon emissions as well as to improve human comfort and productivity. At the community scale, more opportunities can be explored, such as district cooling and heating systems, renewable energy systems and smart grid. However technologies alone do not necessarily guarantee ZNE goal. Humans are the other critical dimension to be integrated into the building life cycle to achieve ZNE goal. This talk provides an overview of challenges and opportunities of ZNE buildings and communities in the U.S., drawing outcomes from LBNL 38-year’s buildings research, international collaborative projects under the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities, as well as the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency.