BUILDING ENERGY SMART TECHNOLOGIES CENTER

The BEST Center is a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder and City College of New York aiming to advance energy systems through university-industry partnerships to engineer the intelligent and efficient cities of tomorrow.

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Learn more about the benefits of becoming an industry advisory board member of an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, check out the latest news from the center and our board members, and follow us on LinkedIn

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Read about the center’s research themes and discover our capabilities, projects, and outcomes to learn how we can achieve sustainable and intelligent buildings, communities, and grids. Explore our tools for measurement & verification, retrofit planning, and more.

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Join us for our semiannual industry advisory board meetings to network with board members, students, and faculty and learn about the innovative research happening at the center.

Thank you for the ongoing support from our industry advisory board members!

How window‑mounted heat pumps can give tenants efficient heating and cooling

Prof. Moncef Krarti, excecutive director of the BEST Center, recently published an article at The...

New Publication: Quantifying energy benefits from window improvement strategies for commercial buildings

A research publication resulting from the BEST Center project titled “Feasibility Evaluation of...

New Publication: A Simplified and Automated Building Energy Retrofit Analysis Approach

A research publication resulting from the BEST Center project titled “Development of Automated...