The Center for High Performance Buildings features world-class research facilities, found nowhere else in academia at this scale.
Living Labs
The Living Labs are four nearly identical, side-by-side large open-plan office spaces with reconfigurable envelope, lighting, and thermal systems and flexible controls.
Perception-Based
Engineering Laboratories
The Perception-Based Engineering (PBE)
Laboratory enables occupant response
testing under controlled conditions in a facility that is highly reconfigurable.
Architectural Engineering Laboratories
The Architectural Engineering research facilities include 4 separate roomscale test spaces to study the combined impact of envelope/facade, lighting and thermal systems and controls on energy performance and indoor environmental comfort, including renewable energy technologies.
HVAC&R Equipment Laboratories
A wide variety of facilities exist for testing HVAC&R equipment under controlled systems, including two pairs of psychrometric chambers, a compressor calorimeter, a variety of small-scale compressor test stands, a wind tunnel for testing heat exchangers under normal and fouled conditions, geothermal heat exchange, centrifugal chiller for fault testing, and an ice storage test facility.
Indoor Air Quality Laboratories
The indoor air quality chamber allows study of the impact of air distribution on indoor environmental conditions, including air temperature, humidity, velocity, and contaminant concentration.
