Hannah Fontenot will present a poster titled “Thermal discomfort prediction with sparse residential thermostat dataset” at the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2023), November 15-16. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a non-profit international scientific and educational organization dedicated to..
More InfoWe are proud to share that Fraunhofer USA CMI has been selected to receive Phase 2 funding from the Department of Energy Building Technologies Office’s Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Initiative. We will work with several project partners and US suppliers to develop and demonstrate a comprehensive, integrated deep energy retrofit solution for one- to four-family buildings. Our solution..
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Last Tuesday, Fraunhofer USA CMI’s Michael Zeifman, Principal Research Scientist, presented at Pennsylvania State University College of Engineering’s Distinguished Speaker Series. One of the goals of the 2030 Challenge, adopted by The American Institute of Architects and the US Green Building Council, is the renovation of existing building stock to achieve 50% reduction in fossil fuel use. In the..
More InfoThe project, entitled “High Fidelity Self-Learning Tool for Residential Load and Load Flexibility Forecasting” aims to develop a self-learning computation tool that will continuously monitor and forecast major energy loads in the home (HVAC, water heating, electric vehicles), as well as on-site power generation (PV), to determine an optimal dispatch schedule that minimizes home energy costs,..
More InfoThis Friday, 11/5, Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation's Dr. Kurt Roth will speak in “ISE Energy of the Future Webinar Series” hosted by the BU Institute for Sustainable Energy. The webinar will address the technical, financial, and policy challenges in decarbonization of existing commercial buildings, with Dr. Roth’s talk focusing on space heating for small- and medium-size..
More InfoThe US Department of Energy just announced ten new projects under Connected Communities funding opportunity that will demonstrate how energy efficient and grid-interactive technologies can transform homes and workplaces into connected communities. Local to Boston, MA, Open Market ESCO LLC will be implementing energy saving and flexible technologies across 2,000 homes.
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Check out this article written by Boston University's College of Engineering discussing the masks made on campus at Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation.http://www.bu.edu/eng/2021/03/23/sharon-donates-thousands-of-masks-made-at-eng/
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Whether it is for analysis of food quality, food safety, or tissue-based diagnostics, isolating viable primary cells extracted from plant and animal tissues are essential for testing. Companies currently use manual means to dissociate tissues in order to extract these cells. A technician spends time preparing an organ by cutting the tissue with scissors. This is followed by 35 minute..
More InfoEvery spring, 2,200+ industry professionals and 335+ suppliers convene in Boston — home to the nation's highest number of medical device companies — for a two-day event focused on moving medtech design projects to the next stage of development.
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In the past year, Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation had the exciting opportunity to unite with the Fraunhofer USA - Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, and expand our core competencies into the realms of building technologies and grid integration of distributed energy resources.
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