Title: Success in mastering climate change is within our reach

Abstract:

In 2008, to reach zero energy in the US, the government proposed 90 % energy reduction for new buildings and 50% for existing buildings. The first objective is expensive but on track; yet, without the subsystem integration, the second objective is now and will remain the failure. If people had a convincing reason, e.g., slowing climate change, people would start moving towards retrofitting goal, but there is no such reason. This presentation will be started with the first principles of system analysis and look at separate buildings, or full districts of buildings, as an integrated system. Our approach uses principles of nature in the background and human comfort in the center. With this in mind, we try to recreate the thinking behind the Ford Model T by proposing a universal, affordable, climate-related technology for the next generation of construction. We will monitor field performance and use the building’s automatic control systems to optimize HVAC operation under service conditions.

     Then, we analyzed the heating, cooling, and ventilation with a view to:

1. Two-stage construction process. The first stage is to achieve the best performance within a prescribed investment limit, the second stage is reducing the cost for measures to reach the required energy,
2. A building automatically controls the contribution of thermal mass, geothermal and solar exergy, and a water-sourced heat pump operating under an adaptable indoor climate. We also use a monitoring and modeling system. We have an affordable solution with complete integration of HVAC and the building structure.

Having the technology, we need to bridge the chasm between socioeconomic needs and construction technology. The public must know that new, affordable technology can improve the comfort of life and simultaneously slow climate change. In short, new technology success depends on how broad the audience is. The role of the conference organizers is to invite the leading architects so the keynote talk and the following workshop discussion, so that a broad public can be convinced that in a few years, we can achieve as much as was done from the 1980s until today.

Biography:

Professor MARK BOMBERG, Technology D. (Lund Uni., Sweden 1974), and D. Science in Engineering, (Warsaw TU, Poland, 1965), Research Prof. at Mechanical Eng., Clarkson U, Potsdam NY, Honorary Member of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment (BETEC) Committee of the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) in Washington, DC, worked at National Research Council of Canada (1975-2000) and was Editor-in-Chief of J. Building Physics (1984-2018). He lives in Canada but works in the US. He taught in the US (Syracuse and Clarkson U), Canada (Concordia, McMaster U), Germany (Dresden TU), Poland (Krakow, Kielce, Warszawa, Olsztyn), and China (Tonji, Shanghai, Southeast, Nanjing). He is currently an Academic Editor in the Journals: Buildings and Energies (Basel, CH). He received the highest awards in building physics in the US and Canada. He co-supervised 6 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc. theses. His research background includes heat, air, moisture, material science, and durability of construction materials, but his passion is the popularization of building science. He has 77,000 reads and 1250 citations on the Research Gate from more than 220 peer-reviewed papers and seven books.