Overview

This year, the New York Academy of Sciences presents a four-part series looking at the state of the art in green building technology and design. Focusing on case studies that represent key innovations, the series will explore new technologies and examine the lessons that have been learned through their implementation.

The first event in the series looked at the convergence of sensing devices and high-powered data analysis tools, which offer ways not only to identify faults within lighting, energy, and cooling systems, but also to optimize the structure's overall performance over the life of the building. Speakers discussed opportunities made possible by high-performance stream computing, machine learning, and model-based tools, as well as characteristics of the building industry that need to be considered to bring automation into building operations more widely.

This eBriefing will be updated over the course of the year with reports and multimedia on issues including renewable energy generation, water efficiency and reuse, waste reduction and the use of environmentally responsible materials. Sign up for our eBriefing alerts to be notified about updates, and watch our Environmental Sciences & Sustainability topic page for announcements of upcoming events.

Use the tabs above to find meeting reports and multimedia from this series.

Multimedia is now available from:

Kurt Roth (Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems)
Jane Snowdon (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
Gregory Provan (University College Cork)
Stephen Samouhos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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