by Jbs091808 a3 — September 26, 2008—The US Green Building Council (USGBC) recently announced the recipients of its 2008 Green Building Research Fund grants. The Green Building Research Fund was created to spurs research to advance sustainable building practices and encourage market transformation. A quarter of the fund is dedicated to research on occupant impacts in K-12 schools.
The original 216 preproposals and 38 full proposals spanned a broad range of environmental needs in the building industry, with a variety of approaches and proposed outcomes, from across the US.
The research projects selected for grants ranging from $90,000 to $250,000 include:
- A Green Roof Energy Calculator
- An Open Source Searchable Database to Assess the Impact of Environmental
Strategies on Outcomes in Healthcare Facilities
- Design for Reuse Primer
- Development and Implementation of a New Protocol for Testing the Ability of Building
Materials to Passively Reduce Indoor Ozone and Its Reaction Products
- HVAC Control Algorithms for Mixed-Mode Buildings
- Improvement of Porous Pavement System for on-site Stormwater Management
- Integrated Building Water Management (IBWM) Modeling – A Proposed Tool for LEED
Assessment & Education
- Investigating Opportunities for Improving Building Performance Through Simulation of
Occupant and Operator Behavior
- Multi-Variate Study of Stormwater BMPs
- Quantifying the Impact of Daylight and Electric Lighting on Student Alertness,
Performance, and Well-being in K-12 Schools
- The Evaluation of Green School Building Attributes and Their Effect On the Health and
Performance of Students and Teachers in NY State
- Transportation Energy Intensity Index
- Using a New Application of Existing Monitoring Technology to Quantify the Relationship between Classroom Ventilation and Student Performance
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