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Building Research & Development Program AreasNYSERDA regularly offers assistance for innovative building technologies in the following areas:
Heating and Cooling NYSERDA helps New York State manufacturers to develop and commercialize innovative, energy efficient, and environmentally-friendly heating and cooling technologies for the home and business. New products include a high-efficiency, pulse combustion, gas-fired, commercial boiler; a 95% efficient, aluminum, gas-fired residential boiler; fluorescent leak detection technologies for air conditioning systems; and an electric heat pump water heater. A yearly solicitation is available to help develop new heating and cooling technologies for buildings. Contact: Nathan Russell Lighting NYSERDA teams with New York lighting manufacturers to develop quality, energy-efficient lighting products. An annual solicitation supports development of new products, such as fixtures to accommodate high efficiency light sources, fiber-based plasma display panels, photovoltaic-powered exterior fixtures, and ultraviolet germicidal systems. NYSERDA also partners with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC), assisting manufacturers with programs such as the National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP), Design and Evaluation of Lighting Technologies and Applications (DELTA), the Hybrid Skylight Program, and numerous training seminars. Contact: Marsha Walton 518-862-1090 ext.3271. Building Envelope This program offers assistance for developing new building construction products, such as advanced windows, panelized wall systems, and industrialized construction methods. Other projects include integrated systems to optimize building energy/ environmental impacts, such as building-integrated solar technologies and advanced indoor air quality systems. A regular solicitation is available to help fund the development of these projects. Contact: Robert Carver Controls and Monitoring This program supports development and demonstration of innovative control, sensor, and monitoring technologies for residential and commercial building systems. Technologies seek to improve power quality, reliability, and efficiency, as well as the indoor environment, such as variable speed air conditioners, wireless submeters, remote HVAC diagnostic equipment, advanced indoor environmental quality monitors, web-enabled systems for price sensitive load management, and power quality and conditioning equipment. A solicitation for these projects is typically offered each year. Advanced Buildings This program focuses on the development and demonstration of high-performance (significantly above commercial practice) single and attached residential buildings. The Program seeks to discover solutions that will increase construction productivity while delivering high performance and increase adoptability. It will transfer advances in building science and energy conversion systems into commercial practice by New York ’s residential construction industry. The program will support two broad paths: discrete components and integrated whole buildings. The development and demonstration of discrete components will focus on advanced building envelope technologies, on-site energy conversion, energy controls and thermal storage. The integrated whole-building component will work with low-volume and production developers to produce exemplary complete buildings that incorporate the advanced features enabling high-performance. Solicitations, suitable for the building industry, including contractors, designers, suppliers, educators and associations will be offered periodically, to both develop and demonstrate all aspects of this program. For more information please see our Reference Design Guide for Highly Efficient Residential Construction . High Performance Residential Challenge Field examples High-Performance Design Options for Residential New Construction Distributed Generation/ Combined Heat and Power (DG/CHP) NYSERDA promotes innovative DG applications -- the on-site generation of electricity by means of technologies such as microturbines and fuel cells. In particular, the program promotes CHP -- electric generation where heat is recaptured from the process and used for space or domestic water heating, which improves the overall efficiency of the system.The success of CHP is dependent up appropriate application within the various end user markets. The industrial and residential sectors require different generation needs according to their thermal loads. Multifamily housing is often seen as a good candidate for CHP systems. Twice a year, a solicitation is available to help fund DG/CHP demonstration projects, feasibility projects, or for developing technologies used in DG/CHP. For more information on DG/CHP, please visit NYSERDA's CHP page. List of Building Technologies staff (including phone numbers and e-mail links) |
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