Spring 2024 Industry Advisory Board Meeting Recap
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the spring industry advisory board (IAB) meeting at CU Boulder! In attendance were 55 faculty, students, IAB members and affiliates, and guests. Special thank you to our keynotes speakers, Will Toor (Executive Director, Colorado Energy Office) and Bethany Sparn (Senior Research Engineer, NREL) who provided exciting updates on Colorado’s greenhouse gas roadmap and DOE’s cold climate heat pump challenge.
During the morning session, attendees saw presentations from faculty and students about on-going projects funded during 2023-2024. The afternoon session included a speed networking poster session, providing IAB members a chance to discuss student projects in a lightning talk-style round-robin, as well as presentation from faculty about proposals for the 2024-2025 funding year.
During the meeting, the BEST Center IAB selected the following projects to receive funding for 2024-2025:
- Enhancing Thermal Energy Harvesting and Storage using Monolithic Mesoporous Metamaterials (MMMs) and Phase Change Materials (PCMs), Ivan Smalyukh (CU Boulder)
- Embodied Energy and Embodied Carbon Analysis of Residential & Commercial Building Envelopes, Wil Srubar (CU Boulder)
- Feasibility Evaluation of Net-Positive Window Systems, Moncef Krarti and Michael McGehee (CU Boulder)
- Design & Techno-Economic Assessment Tool for ASHP Systems for Cooling, Heating and Hot Water, Prathap Ramamurthy (CCNY) and Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz (University at Albany)
- Performance Evaluation and Grid Impacts of Intelligent Field Devices and Next-Generation Heat Pumps with an Application to Adaptive Reuse of Commercial Buildings, Gregor Henze (CU Boulder)