Carleton University and Green Power Labs Join Forces
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Carleton University and Green Power Labs Join Forces to Improve Building Energy Management.
Today, Green Power Labs and Dr. Liam O’Brien of Carleton University’s Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering Department began a six month project to determine the impact site specific climatology forecasts might have on improved management of building heating and cooling loads.
We are pleased to be working with Dr. O’Brien and his team commented Dr. Alexandre Pavlovski, President and CEO of Green Power Labs. Similar research has been conducted in Europe and we are interested in adapting our existing forecasting platform for building energy management applications,†Pavlovski added.
Commercial and residential buildings are responsible for 33 per cent of total energy use in Canada, and emit 35 per cent of the nation’s greenhouse gas (NRCan 2000). By 2025, buildings worldwide will be the largest consumers of global energy, using as much power as the transportation and industrial sectors combined. Building heating and cooling is the single largest item in building energy consumption; it is also the most expensive item in building energy cost because power for heating/cooling is frequently purchased at peak rates. Pavlovski concluded effective predictive analytics tools that allow for better management of building energy are required if we are to make significant reductions in our environmental footprint.
Picture: Carleton University from the south. Taken by Kris BARBARA on 18, May 2007Â / Wikimedia Commons
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