PIX number

14651

Title:

Science & Technology Facility (S&TF)

Caption

The building is being constructed at NREL's main campus, on a grassy slope of South Table Mesa adjacent to the Laboratory's existing Solar Energy Research Facility (SERF). The new facility will allow NREL to enhance its research capabilities to meet DOE's goals for advancing solar, hydrogen and other promising clean energy technologies. The new laboratories specifically are designed to allow researchers from a variety of different disciplines to interact and share data while the work, and include novel design features through which individual labs can be combined to form large, open spaces for collaborative research.The S&TF is designed to encompass advanced energy efficiency and "green building" concepts. The architecture makes good use of natural light wherever possible, and is coupled with an automated system that pares electric use by dimming unnecessary supplemental lighting. Heating, cooling and ventilation systems likewise employ many of the most sophisticated principals for energy conservation available today.Construction of the new building is scheduled to be completed in 2006.

Credit:

Linenberger, Mike

Publications:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2005 Research Review (NREL/BR-840-38668, June 2006)

Date:

4/12/2006

Index Date:

4/20/2006

DOE_office:

Notes:

High resolution digital file, ~22.8 MB; Altered version of 14654 by Raymond David.

Subject:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Descriptors:

buildings, construction, energy efficiency, solar-passive, solar-photovoltaics

Person/Place:

Golden, Colorado

Release Level

Full/Internet

DOE Information:

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