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Of more than 250 interns that climbed to new heights at NREL over summer 2017, Jamie Santos was “one of the stars,” according to her NREL mentor.
A nascent area of research is beginning to link high performance with other aspects of a building’s financial performance.

Thermochromic windows that are capable of converting sunlight to electricity at a high efficiency have been developed by scientists at NREL.
DOE has 17 national laboratories that are widely acknowledged to be cornerstones to scientific and engineering excellence worldwide.
The Institute for Market Transformation has created The Business Case for High-Performance Building, a course for real estate brokerage professionals.

The Energy Department’s Building Technologies Office (BTO) is researching opportunities to make homes safer and more efficient through SBIR.
The Building Technologies Office announced the winners from its latest round of JUMP technology challenges.
Commercial buildings consume approximately 20 percent of all energy in the U.S. with tenants occupying 50 percent of commercial building space.

Startup BuildSim’s new offering brings GitHub’s project management, version control, and collaboration features to building energy simulation.
The energy used for lighting parking facilities is equal to the annual energy use of more than 10 million homes!