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C EF I Center for Energy InformaticsUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK
COORDICY NEWS No. 1 - October 2015
New PostDocs
FIRST COORDICY NEWSLETTER
EMPLOYMENTS
Dear all
This newsletter is the first edition since the project launch on the 1st of March 2015. The newsletter is intended to keep all involved project partners posted on COORDICY related news, such as general project progress and other relevant information.
I would like to thanks Mikkel and Sanne for taking the lead on putting this first newsletter together, and I will encourage all of you to share project relevant news for our next newsletter with Sanne ([email protected]).
GreetingsBo Nørregaard Jørgensen
Krzysztof Arendt - Postdoc
As per mid-august we have employed Krzysztof Arendt as Postdoc. Krzysztof is from Poland where he finished his Ph.D. thesis in building physics at Gdansk University of Technology in 2013. His main research interests cover building energy modelling and passive techniques of heating and cooling in buildings. In the COORDICY project he will be responsible for the development and validation of WP2 modelling objectives.
Contact information: E-mail: [email protected] , phone: +45 65 50 25 38.
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The Maersk Building - University of Southern DenmarkThe new TEK building, Faculty of Engineering - University of Southern Denmark
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New PostDocs
EMPLOYMENTS
Aslak Johansen - Postdoc
On August 3rd Aslak joined CFEI. He has a Ph.D. from the IT University in Copenhagen and will be working on the COORDICY project mainly focusing on Building Operating System Services. This work will focus on services for accessing information about buildings’ construction typology, thermal properties of building structures, types and layouts of building systems, and occupant detection. The new services should make information available to building intelligence developers through a set of uniform abstractions, which will guarantee portability of advanced building intelligence across vendor specific Building Management Systems (BMS).
Contact information: E-mail: [email protected], phone: +45 65502534.
Claudio Giovanni Mattera
Claudio started at CFEI on August 17th. Claudio is from Italy and has earned a dual Master’s degree in both engine-ering mathematics from Lund University in Sweden and computer engineering from Politecnico Di Milano in Italy in 2012 after enrollment in a dual degree and studying in both universities. Claudio Giovanni Mattera has joined the COORDICY project team, and will be doing his Ph.D. in this regard within the field of Building Energy Performance Diagnostics.
Contact information: E-mail: [email protected], phone: +45 6550 9676.
New Ph.D. Students
Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye
On September 1st Fisayo Sangogboye joined CFEI. Fisayo is from Nigeria and has a Master in Science Technology - a triple degree from Université de Lorraine in France, Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland and Lulea University of Technology in Sweden. Fisayo’s work and Ph.D. project will concentrate on sensing and modelling of occupancy behaviour.
Contact information: E-mail: [email protected] , phone: +45 6550 2537.
Peter Nellemann, Industrial Ph.d. student at Insero Software
Peter Nellemann also joined the team on September 1st. Peter has a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from University of Southern Denmark in 2015. He has also received a Bachelor’s degree in Natural Science from University of Southern Denmark in 2013.His position is an industrial PhD fellowship in collaboration with the Danish COORDICY project partner INSERO Soft-ware. Peter will be focusing on applying Controleum for building control. Controleum is a commercial framework for multi-objective multi-issue negotiation developed at the Center for Energy Informatics.
Contact information: E-mail: [email protected] , phone: +45 6550 3521.
New member of the COORDICY research team
Assistant Professor Ashok Singh
Ashok has been employed at the center since March 2014 and has joined the modelling task force to develop sub models and investigate their applicability in the Controleum environment
Contact information: E-mail: [email protected] , phone: +45 6550 9251.
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DK-US COLLABORATION ONGOING
The following COORDICY related visits and changes of research environment have been planned for the coming period to support the DK-US collaboration in the project.
APRIL
Associate Professor Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard visited Berkeley in April for WP3 planning and status meetings.
Gabe Fierro – Graduate Student from UC Berkeley, CA.
Over the Summer Graduate Student Gabe Fierro visited CFEI and stayed here for one month to initiate work in WP3. Gabe is a lead programmer on California Institute for Energy & Environment’s OpenBAS Software. OpenBAS Software is building control software built on sMAP. The purpose of Gabe’s visit was to get OpenBAS running in Denmark and collaboration with staff at CFEI, Insero Software and Remoni.
JULY AND AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
Change of research environment for Ph.d. student Ana Ionesi
In order to advance the work on model development using Modelica and to tighten the interaction between project partners Ph.D. student Ana Ionesi is currently spending 3 months in the Simulation Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs.
OCTOBER
Visits to LBNL, UC Berkeley and NASA Ames Sustainability Base
PostDoc Krzysztof Arendt and Associate Professor Christian Veje have been visiting LBNL in the beginning of October to have further WP2 planning and status meetings with the Simulation Research Group. Additionally, visits were arranged with the group at University of California at Berkeley and NASA Ames Sustainability Base.
NOVEMBER
JANUARY
Visit from NASA Ames at Center For Energy Informatics
On November 16-17 we are welcoming Dr. Rosalind Grymes and Professor Rodney A. Martin from NASA Ames. We are planning a COORDICY Seminar for the research team. In this regard Rosalind Grymes will give a presentation on “The best practices learned about operating a high performing building”, and Rodney A. Martin will enlighten us on the recent progress and accomplishments on the use of ACCEPT applied to various scenarios in Sustainability Base. Furthermore, the purpose of the visits will also be to meet and connect with the CFEI COORDICY project team and participate in discussions to explore mutually beneficial research activities.
Ph.d. Student Emil Holmegaard will be starting his change of research environment, a 3 months stay at Berke-ley University in California from January to March 2016 within the frame of WP3.
Associate Professor Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard will be visiting Berkeley from January 10-17, 2016 as part of WP3 coordination and status meetings.
Additionally, Postdoc Aslak Johansen is planning a six month stay from January to June at Berkeley University in California as part of his work on WP3.
The Maersk Building, University of Southern Denmark UC Berkeley, California NASA Sustainability Base
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UPDATE ON COORDICY BUILDINGS
The Municipalities of Aarhus and Odense have provided a list of possible case study buildings for the COORDICY project management to choose among. It is now up to the project management and the municipalities in collaboration to select the buildings that are
most itable as COORDICY test and case-study buildings.
Center for Energy Informatics and Danish Clean Tech Hub in New York are planning a workshop and seminar to be held in New York in spring 2016. The dates for next year’s NYC Energy Week are not yet in place – this event is usually held in the third week of June, however, this is not yet confirmed.
Alternatively, there are other options such as Earth Week which is held around April 20th. We will announce the visit as soon as dates have been fixed.
GREEN TECH HOUSE
Evaluation of Energy PerformanceSo far we have been working on evaluating the energy performance of the Green Tech House (GTH), a living lab building situated in Vejle, Denmark as part of the Green Tech Center.
An overall energy model for the whole building was developed taking into account the building envelope, construction materials, thermal properties and various building systems and services employed. EnergyPlus was used to model the building and simulate the overall energy performance under Danish regulations and weather conditions. Preliminary validation of the developed model was done by comparing with measurements.
The building was designed to comply with Class 15 standard; however, the results show that the building complies with BR10 standard specification. It was found that the energy consumption of the building can be reduced with 0,7 kWh/m2 by implementing a lighting control based on occupancy.
DATA AVAILABILITY
The GTC data platform enables the project to use data about the GTC House building and to control set points in the building. The platform provides an application programming in-terface that the COORDICY developed software components can utilize for data collecti-on and control. A subset of the data available is also public accessible from following link: http://data.greentechcenter.dk.
NEW TEACHING BUILDING - OU44
The new teaching building OU44 at the University of Southern Denmark is soon to be complete. The project will be able to start access the building from the end of the year.
However, the building is already used in the project as we are following the commissioning process closely and the development of Digital Information models that match the actual building and not the designed one.
BUILDINGS IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF AARHUS AND ODENSE
TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY IN SPRING 2016
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PUBLICATIONSFollowing COORDICY related papers have been published or are in pipeline
• M. Jradi, A.Z. Gamboa, C. Veje, ”Simulation and Parametric Analysis of an Office Building Energy Performance under Danish Conditions” in 14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2015), 25-27 August 2015, Nottingham, UK.
• A. Ionesi, M. Jradi, C. Veje, ”Overall Energy Performance Analysis of a Living Lab Building in Denmark”, in 14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2015), 25-27 August 2015, Nottingham, UK.
• A. Ionesi, M. Jradi, M.B. Kjærgaard, C. Veje, ”Towards Seamless Integration of Model- Based Energy Performance Simulation and Multi-Objective Optimization Tools”. Sub-mitted to the 14th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (BS2015), 7-9 December 2015, Hyderabad, India.
• Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Hamid Reza Shaker, Christian T. Veje: ”Challenge: Advancing Energy Informatics to Enable Assessable Improvements of Energy Performance in Buildings”, in e-Energy 2015: pp. 77-82.
• Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Muhyiddine Jradi: Poster Abstract: ”Towards a Categorization Framework for Occupancy Sensing Systems”. e-Energy 2015: pp. 215-216.
• Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Hamid Reza Shaker, Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen: ”Commercial Buildings’ Energy Performance within Context - Occupants in Spotlight”. SMARTGREENS 2015: pp. 306-312.
List of Master Theses and bachelor projects related to the COORDICY project • Kenan Imamovic, ”Improving Occupancy Prediction by Combining Histo-
ric Learning and User Feedback”, Master Thesis, MMMI, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2015. Advisor: Associate Professor Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard.
• Almir Mehanovic, Emil Sebastian Rømer. ”Recognizing and visualizing energy consumption patterns of buildings using data mining”, Bachelor Project, MMMI, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2015. Advisor: Associate Professor Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard and Associate Professor Sanja Lazarova-Molnar.
MASTER THESES AND BACHELOR PROJECTS