At this year's University Hill Corporation meeting, SyracuseCoE and the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity (CenterState CEO) announced a new partnership designed to grow businesses in the energy and environmental fields. The new formal collaboration brings together the business and economic development assets of CenterState CEO with the extensive research and academic assets of the SyracuseCoE federation in order to:

• Launch new businesses, grow existing businesses, and create partnerships between emerging companies and established industry leaders in these sectors;
• Align R&D with business and economic development investments, and identify new funding opportunities for companies in the region; and
• Open doors for companies to solve business challenges and find new market opportunities by connecting them with top researchers.

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On December 9 and 10, a delegation of professionals from the Singapore Workforce Development Agency and the Employment and Enjoyability Institute visited Syracuse University and SyracuseCoE. The delegation came to Syracuse with a primary interest in the design and use of adult learning spaces, use of technology to support adult learning and practical environmentally friendly and sustainable building designs. Delegates participated in a tour of the Center of Excellence to illustrate collaborative work space and sustainable design. For the full article, click here.     

The US Green Building Council (USGBC) has put out a call for proposals in anticipation of Greenbuild 2011, to be held held October 5-7 in Toronto. The Greenbuild International Conference & Expo is dedicated to green building, and provides three days of exceptional opportunities for educational sessions, renowned speakers, tours, special seminars and networking events. The deadline for submittals is January 14th, 2011. Preferred topics for 2011 include:

• Energy
• Water
• Government and Policy
• Materials Science: Technologies
• Regenerative Design and Construction
• Healthy Buildings/Healthy Places
• Human Behavior
• Site Issues
• Social Responsibility
• Community Action and Engagement
• Green Jobs
• Ten Years of Green Building: Case studies of early-adopters of LEED; Lessons learned from 10 years of performance data and occupancy

The SyracuseCoE encourages all partners and collaborators to submit a proposal for Greenbuild 2011. For more information regarding proposals, click here.     

SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Carrier Corp. presented the first natural refrigerant technology for container refrigeration at Intermodal Europe 2010. Carrier Transicold, the unit of Carrier Corp. heading the development, is using the refrigerant technology to create container refrigeration systems incorporating carbon dioxide in place of conventional synthetic hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, in hopes to reduce global warming potential. For more information, click here.

For more than 11 years, SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Clarkson University has conducted research on reducing the drag of Class 8 vehicle tractor-trailers. Under the leadership of Associate Professor Kenneth D. Visser, numerous undergraduate and graduate students have conducted wind tunnel experiments and full-scale prototype tests to improve the fuel mileage of these large transport vehicles. The concept has now reached a commercialization stage, supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and a partnership with ATDynamics. Currently, as part of the NYSERDA-funded research effort, Visser and his students are teaming up with Lavalle Transportation Inc. (LTI) to test units from ATD on the local trucking fleet. Ten trailers will be equipped with the ATD TrailerTail units and run for the next several months. Fuel savings as well as operational issues will be monitored. For the full story, click here.

Researchers and developers from SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Siemens have been noted as having a record year in their output  of new inventions in innovation. The innovations from 2010 have been developed worldwide, and have covered a wide spectrum with nearly half  belonging to the comprehensive Siemens Environmental Portfolio.  For more, click here.

SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Herman Miller has been included among the top 100 global companies for sustainability in the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index. The equally-weighted equity index serves as a benchmark for stocks of companies that are have taken a leadership role in sustainability performance reporting, and disclosing information such as carbon footprint status, energy usage, and water consumption. For more, click here.

The Near Westside Initiative (NWSI) will host an open house on Dec. 16, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the newly renovated Lincoln Building. The open house will celebrate the completion of the Lincoln Building renovation, formally Lincoln Supply Warehouse, and mark the success of the NWSI's first renovation of a large scale mixed-use commercial and residential building. The Lincoln Building utilized numerous green building technologies that were provided to the project through SyracuseCoE and its partners. The evening's events will include a brief press conference, announcement of the buildings residents, and a ceremonial dedication of the building.  For the full article, click here. To RSVP, contact Maarten Jacobs.