IEE Seminar: Building Energy Performance and Efficiency: Fact or Fiction?

MARTIN FISCHER
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Director, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE)
Coordinator, Building Energy Efficiency Research, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center

Seminar Title:
Building Energy Performance and Efficiency: Fact or Fiction?

October 28, 2009 4:00PM ESB 1001

Abstract
Are our buildings as energy-efficient as designed, performing as well as possible? We usually don't know. Ill-defined performance metrics, fragmented building design-construction-operations processes, and a lack of building and energy performance data at multiple scales make it difficult to achieve or even document good energy performance or explain why a building is performing in a particular way. This seminar will describe cost and value-based metrics for building energy performance and methods for predicting and measuring energy performance at the building system, whole building, campus, and regional levels developed at the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford University. The goal of the work is to close the loop between building performance goals and actual performance through digital models of buildings and their predicted and actual energy performance.

Biography
Martin Fischer is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE). CIFE is the world-leading, industry-sponsored, academic research centre on virtual design and construction. Dr Fischer is known globally for his work and leadership in developing virtual 4D modeling (time plus 3D) methods to improve project planning, enhance facility life-cycle performance, increase the productivity of project teams, and further the sustainability of the built environment. His research results have been used by many small and large industrial and government organizations around the world. He has lived and worked in Europe, South America, North America and Asia. Dr Fischer holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a MS
in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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