Gabriel Flechas is the AMBER group’s newest PhD candidate. He recently completed an MS in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. His research has focused on developing and validating OpenStudio models for buildings using cross laminated timber (CLT)...
Dr. Tabares-Velasco, along with Dr. Mahadevan Ganesh (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) and Alina Handorean (Engineering, Design and Society) was awarded an internal grant from the Office of Research and Technology Transfer to assess the effectiveness of...
Dr. Tabares-Velasco and Dr. Marcus Bianchi of NREL, were one of eight teams awarded seed funding from Nexus, the Mines-NREL partnership aimed at strengthening collaboration between the two organizations. Tabares-Velasco and Bianchi’s award was for developing an...
Drs. Wijesuriya and Tabares’ paper on phase change materials has been accepted in the Journal of Energy Storage: Experimental apparatus and methodology to test and quantify thermal performance of micro and macro-encapsulated phase change materials in building envelope...
Dr. Tabares-Velasco won funding from the U.S. Forest Service for a project to characterize the environmental and economic benefits of cross-laminated timber (CLT) buildings. CLT is a mass timber material that has the potential to expand the wood building market in the...
Dr. Tabares-Velasco presented at the ASHRAE 2020 Virtual Conference. His papers were entitled “Effect of Convective Heat Transfer on PCM Thermal Performance” and “Whole Campus Energy Modeling for Research and Teaching Purposes.” Back to...
