To use the Building Sciences Database we ask you to register with us and create a Preferred User account. Once registered you will be able to download various building data sets. The registration is necessary to protect the integrity of these data sets. We ask for your understanding in this matter and hope you will make use of the wealth of information offered here.
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| What's New
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This website! Here you will find our Building Sciences Database and all our research results (in report form).
The Building Sciences Database contains the collected data as part of our various Building Characterization Tasks. Theses Tasks were designed to develop protocols for the measurement of integrated building performance and to measure a comprehensive set of environmental parameters in non-problematic buildings throughout the United States . It resulted in the development of integrated building protocols and normative baseline data to assess the relationships of building performance and energy consumption and how they contribute to problems in solving IEQ and other building performance concerns.
The Building Sciences Database currently holds data on ten office buildings located throughout the United States . For each building you will find data on - its physical characteristics
- thermal comfort (i.e., temperature, operative temperature, vertical temperature gradient, relative humidity, and draft), carbon dioxide, surface and airborne mold, and volatile organic compounds
- lighting
- sound
- energy consumption
You can download the data files of each of the listed parameters as an Excel file. If you are a researcher and interested in conducting your own analyses on the data, please connect with us. Over the next twelve months, the database will be expanded with data from ten schools; ten high-performance (LEED rated) buildings; a direct comparison of two public buildings, one LEED rated, one not; quantitative duct leakage measurements of ten residences; and field test of closed crawl space systems at two U.S. location each with ten residences.
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| What We Do
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The National Center for Energy Management and Building Technologies (NCEMBT) is a non-profit (§501(c)(3)) institution. Our mission is to
- Transform the built environment by delivering applied research and education that results in sustainable building systems which are efficient, productive, secure, and healthy.
- Coordinate the application of research with partners and sponsors to get the research to market.
We accomplish this by supporting research, participating in standard setting, advancing technical training and professional education and serving as a repository of information on economic, technical and public policy issues.
Please read our 2006-2007 Annual Review (pdf, 2.0 MB) for more information about our organization and our work.
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