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Upcoming Events
March 11, 2010: Environmental Stewardship Forum, Oswego, NY. For more information, email Cathy Mills.
March 11-12, 2010: SUNY-ESF Green Building Conference, Syracuse, NY. For more information, click here.
March 12, 2010: Fuel Cell Lecture, LC Smith College, Syracuse University. For more information, click here.
March 12, 2010: F.O.C.U.S Greater Syracuse, City Hall Commons. For more information, click here.
March 12, 2010: Summerhill Biomass Systems Demonstration, King Ferry, NY. For more information, click here.
March 22, 2010: CNY Biotechnology Symposium, Syracuse, NY. For more information, click here.
April 16, 2010: The Energy Highway, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY. For more information, click here.
May 5, 2010: AccelerateCNY, Holiday Inn, Liverpool, NY. For more information, click here.
July 6-15, 2010: Summer Energy Institute, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY. For more information, click here.
Aug. 15-18, 2010: IAQVEC 2010, Syracuse University. For more information, click here.
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Sept. 27-28, 2010: SyracuseCoE Symposium on Environmental & Energy Systems, Syracuse, NY.
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Greetings!
In this issue of
eNews, discover the latest news and events from the Syracuse Center of Excellence and its members. Remember, if you wish to forward news, dates, or ideas to the
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SyracuseCoE HQ Dedication Highlights the Power of Collaborative PartnershipsAt a March 5 ceremony dedicating the new headquarters of SyracuseCoE, more than 700 attendees--government, industry, and university collaborators, as well as members of the public--were invited to "discover a new angle on sustainability." They joined together in the building's Laboratory Wing to celebrate Syracuse's newest landmark and to find out just what is inside the iconic, angular, glass-fronted facility: both its high-performance, intelligent green building features and the research and demonstration projects planned for this "living laboratory." Leading the ceremony were Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor and Lisa Heinzerling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Associate Administrator for Policy, Economics, and Innovation. To read the entire article, click here. To view photos from the event, click here.
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More Than 600 Visit SyracuseCoE at Community Open HouseOn March 6, SyracuseCoE invited the local
community to a Community Open House at its headquarters building. More than 600 people saw a program that included the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address delivered by Onondaga Nation Chief Jake Edwards; a presentation by the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors; and words from SyracuseCoE Executive Director Ed Bogucz, Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University Director Sara Pesek, and Oren Lyons (pictured below), Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper. In addition, the public took self-guided tours of the new building, listened to music from local groups Samba Laranja and Sophistafunk, and watched the premier of a short documentary about SyracuseCoE. To view photos from the event, click here.
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Willis H. Carrier Total Indoor Environmental Quality Lab Opened at SyracuseCoE HQ On March 5, representatives of SyracuseCoE industry, academic, and government Partners--including Carrier Corp. President Geraud Darnis (below center)--formally opened the Willis H. Carrier Total Indoor Environmental Quality
(TIEQ)
Laboratory, one of the unique "living laboratories" located in the SyracuseCoE HQ. This ceremony included the presentation to SyracuseCoE of the slide rule that helped Willis
H. Carrier invent modern air conditioning, on loan from Carrier Corp. The TIEQ Lab is a one-of-a-kind research facility--largely
funded by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology, and Innovation
(NYSTAR) and Carrier Corp.--designed to conduct experiments on the human
response to indoor environments. To learn more from Carrier Corp., click here. To read about the TIEQ Lab on Forbes, click here.
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Integrated Concentrating Solar Façade Featured by Associated PressCityscapes of glass-clad buildings gleaming in the sun make Anna Dyson think about wasted energy. Dyson heads the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, or CASE, a research consortium that wants to turn office windows into multifaceted solar power generators. Their "integrated concentrating dynamic solar façade" consists of grids of clear pyramids that help focus the sun's rays to generate energy. A prototype gets a real-world tryout after the opening of the SyracuseCoE HQ. Researchers at CASE--a collaborative research group involving Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and the international architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill--call it a step toward exploiting the huge but largely untapped "green" resource of building exteriors. To read the entire article, reprinted on philly.com, click here.
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SyracuseCoE-Affiliated Indoor Environmental Quality Researchers Win Best Paper AwardSyracuseCoE-affiliated researchers Dustin Demetriou and H. Ezzat Khalifa of SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University have received a 2009 "Best Paper" award from
Building Simulation: An International Journal for the paper "Evaluation of Distributed Environmental Control Systems for Improving IAQ and Reducing Energy Consumption in Office Buildings." The paper originally was published in Volume 2, Issue 3 of the journal. The award will be publicly announced in the editorial of Volume 3, Issue 1 (March 2010).
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Fuel Cell Expert to Present at LC Smith College, March 12On March 12 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Prof. Jeongmin Ahn of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, will present in 369 Link Hall, in SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University's LC Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. Ahn will present his paper, "Spiral Counterflow Heat-Recirculating Combustors and Applications to Power Generation Driven by Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells." The lecture is presented by SU's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the NYSTAR-awarded STAR Center for Environmental Quality Systems (EQS STAR Center). For more information, contact Kathy Datthyn-Madigan.
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GreenHomes America Wins NYSERDA Top AwardsAt the Feb. 11 New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) "Solutions for Success" conference in Saratoga Springs, NY, SyracuseCoE Patron GreenHomes America by Entherm won NYSERDA's award for Outstanding Achievement for 2008-2009. This is the eighth consecutive year that GreenHomes has won this award. The company also won the award for Excellence in Energy Savings.
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Summerhill Biomass Systems to Demonstrate Green Waste-to-Energy System, March 12SyracuseCoE StartUp Partner Summerhill Biomass Systems will showcase its unique system for converting green waste into clean, affordable energy. A demonstration is scheduled for 11 a.m. March 12 at 1520 Route 90, King Ferry, NY. Summerhill, named after the Cayuga County community where the technology was developed four years ago, has pending patents on its system for converting timber, brush, corn stalks, and other plant wastes into a burnable fine powder fuel. Company principles will show how the solid material burns as intensely as a gas--at speeds or 5/100ths to 1/10th of a second--without smoke or odor. For more information, contact Aaron Gifford.
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Natural Systems Engineering to Present on Green Infrastructure Retrofitting for Subdivisions at International ConferenceSyracuseCoE StartUp Partner Natural Systems Engineering will present at the 2010 International Low Impact Development Conference, April 11 to 14, in San Francisco, CA. The title of the paper--authored by Kyle Thomas of Natural Systems Engineering and Daniel Wible of CH2M Hill--is titled "Design of a Green Infrastructure 'Retrofit' as an Alternative to Conventional Stormwater Management for a Residential Subdivision." To learn more about the paper's contents, contact Kyle Thomas.
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F.O.C.U.S. to Focus on Mayor Miner's 50 Point Plan, March 12On March 12, F.O.C.U.S. Greater Syracuse will host "F.O.C.U.S. on Building a Sustainable Community: Renewing the Promise of Syracuse with Mayor Miner's 50-Point Plan." Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner will be the special guest. The talk is free and open to the public. It runs from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. in the City Hall Commons First Floor Atrium. For more information, click here.
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