Abstract: . . .  could put out their buildings, all—the good, the bad, and the ugly, really need to. I propose something—to develop a buildings system integrator. This has, and we saw little pieces of it, and where did it come from? It came from Europe a little bit, in the sense that we want to first get in the field. We want to do our net monitoring, our net metering. We want to capture that and we want to make sure that people see this real time. We can all be involved in the experiment. We will learn so much better if we can learn real time as opposed to hearing it in a presentation five years later, and hearing that it was a good idea or a bad one. The concept that we heard about as far as virtual laboratories could be tied into that very nicely, so we’ve got a place where we can take these buildings in the field and put them into this virtual laboratory. Very much so. We may be ahead as far as the United States in many areas, but when it comes to this area of building science, we are not, in many respects. There’s a multitude of universities. I was there, two weeks ago, at the International Building Physics Conference as an invited keynote speaker, and there were at least a dozen, dozen-and-a-half, universities, Ph.D. university degrees in building science. I think we need to include them. We need to be involved in that. The third step is analysis where we take the data that we collect from both the laboratory and field and put it in a format that everybody can tie Page 24 24 E- Vision 2000 into on the net, using the IT technologies. At that point we need to pause and say—alright, where’s the new thing? How do we deploy it? What do we need as far as codes and standards? DoE has recently reorganized to do exactly that and would very rapidly aid the deployment, to getting into those deployment, you know, we’ve done the demonstration, now how can we facilitate it by encouragement of code standard incentives? We need interactive Internet design tools. DoE has a whole variety of them that are available. That’s what people want. Late at night, the creative process. How can we get out there and make that available in a very quick manner and put it at the level of understanding that the architects, planners, and decision makers have? That will have a nice place where we can have the documented case studies and most importantly, how did I do? How did it benchmark against everything else that’s been accumulating in this virtual laboratory? I contend that DoE is perfectly suited for setting that up and let people volunteer to be a part of it. The second thing, and I can cut this a little bit short—the very first thing I was involved in 27 years ago when I went to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was a program called MIUS—Modular Integrated Utility Systems—and it was all about DG. It was all about co-generation. I’m the only person in that corps of people and there were 20 folks, that were working in that area, that’s left at Oak Ridge. One of the big things that ended . . .
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