The Siebel Energy Institute awarded Forrest $25,000 for a project collaborating with the Polytechnic University of Torino on new concepts for building heating and cooling control that utilize constructal theory accounting for energy and and entropy
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Embodied Energy Pilot Project @ Ideas City
Prof Meggers provided some informal insights and direction to David Benjamin in this project that was presented at the IDEAS CITY event at the New Museum in New York City
http://www.ideas-city.org/#event/embodied-energy-pilot-project
The Embodied Energy Pilot Project—led by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®, and operating out of the GSAPP Incubator at NEW INC—aims to uncover key questions, issues, and opportunities for architectural design in the context of embodied energy.
This exhibition for IDEAS CITY will feature two large drawings for the glass facade of the New Museum: a zoomed-out embodied energy map of New York City buildings, and a zoomed-in embodied energy view of the intersection of the Bowery and Houston Street.
New York Times thermal imaging article
The NY Times ran an interesting article on thermal imaging, a tool we use in our research to study how heat moves in and out of surfaces. It gives a nice overview of the technology, as well as some interesting application and business models (like essess.com)
http://nyti.ms/1C07xA5
Princeton CHAOS Lab featured on ACEE Annual Report
The Thermoheliodome was featured on the cover of the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment Annual Report
View Report here: http://acee.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014-Anglinger-Annual-Report-FINAL.pdf
Princeton CHAOS Lab Website
Welcome to the new Princeton CHAOS Lab website!
Cooling and Heating for Architecturally Optimized Systems
Research Group of Dr. Forrest Meggers,
Asst. Prof. at the School of Architecture &
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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Passive Radiant cooling surface material Nature Paper (Fan @ Stanford)
The group fo Shanhui Fan published a paper in Nature, “Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight.” I demonstrates how a nanostructured surface and shift the wavelength of radiant emission into a band where the atmosphere is transparent, greatly increasing the thermal gradient and cooling potential by radiating to the sky. They were able to cool the surface to 4.9 degrees C below the ambient air temperature in sunlit conditions.
Nature paper:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7528/full/nature13883.html
Media article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141126133821.htm
Meggers invited lecture at Ohio State
Meggers’ featured lecture at Ohio State
http://knowlton.osu.edu/event/forrest-meggers-princeton-university-school-architecture
Meggers Campus as a Lab project highlighted
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S41/53/01G71/index.xml?section=topstories
Meggers research with high school students highlighted
University news page (was featured on main page in September
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S40/80/41I98/index.xml
University Bulletin newspaper print
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/bulletin/docs/Bulletin_10-09-2014.pdf