Welcome to AMBER
The Advanced Multiscale Building Energy Research (AMBER) Group studies and simulates energy interactions at different scales, from heat transfer happening inside the building envelope to energy interactions in a connected community. We combine laboratory, field and numerical work with an emphasis on making buildings and communities more energy efficient and grid friendly.
Group Director: Dr. Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco
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Welcome to AMBER
The Advanced Multiscale Building Energy Research (AMBER) Group studies and simulates energy interactions at different scales, from heat transfer happening inside the building envelope to energy interactions in a connected community. We combine laboratory, field and numerical work with an emphasis on making buildings and communities more energy efficient and grid friendly.
Group Director: Dr. Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco
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What We Do
- Building- and community-scale energy modeling and optimization: Our projects ranges from detailed analysis of a single building to analyzing an entire community – or the Mines campus – and developing the appropriate tools for the job.
- Thermal energy storage modeling, analyzing and optimization: Our Energy Storage portfolio combines phase change materials in the building envelope and central and distributed ice energy storage.
- Numerical evaluation of dynamic envelope materials: Optimization of dynamic materials that save energy and reduce building peak demand.
- Building envelopes: From green roofs to cross laminated timber, we perform hygrothermal and whole-building energy simulations.
- Thermal comfort and indoor air quality: From developing new technologies to sense occupancy and thermal comfort to measuring indoor pollutants – all are important when analyzing the built environment!