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2016 Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award

Individual: Skye Group Back: Healy, Payne, Fanney, Poppendieck, Omar Group Front: Kneifel, Ng, Ullah, Dougherty

Individual: Skye
Group Back: Healy, Payne, Fanney, Poppendieck, Omar
Group Front: Kneifel, Ng, Ullah, Dougherty 

AWARD CITATION

This group is recognized for developing a unique testbed to evaluate equipment and design approaches to achieve energy-efficient residential buildings with improved indoor environmental quality.  This residential test facility provided all the amenities expected in a typical American home, but with extensive sensing and automation to carefully monitor energy and indoor environmental performance.  The knowledge gained from the extensive data collection and analyses is already leading to changes in the way that builders design and construct homes; equipment manufacturers design systems for homes; and industry groups quantify building performance.

GROUP AWARD

Brian Dougherty

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

A. Hunter Fanney

Senior Research Scientist
Engineering Laboratory

William Healy

Supervisory Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Lisa Ng

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Joshua Kneifel

Economist
Engineering Laboratory

Farhad Omar

Electrical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Dustin Poppendieck

Environmental Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Harrison Skye

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Tania Ullah

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

W. Vance Payne

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory