GUV can reduce transmission of airborne disease while reducing energy use and carbon emissions. But fulfilling that promise depends on having accurate and verifiable performance data.

Researchers from PNNL have been assessing installation and use of electric heat pumps in an Alaskan community that relies on fuel oil for heat. The resulting information could advance electrification in cold rural areas across the nation.

In soil, microbes produce and consume methane. Using a technique called pool dilution, researchers can separate the rate of methane production and consumption from the net rate.

PNNL helps deliver efficiency-related rules and requirements that steadily improve performance of America’s buildings, saving energy and costs and reducing carbon emissions.

Visual Sample Plan, a free software tool developed at PNNL that boosts statistics-based planning, has been recognized with a 2024 Federal Laboratory Consortium Award.

Mandy Mahoney, director of the DOE Building Technologies Office, visited PNNL in late November. One key agenda item involved meeting with staff for a discussion of effective equity and justice integration in buildings-related research.

Researchers created a methodology to design custom network topologies that improve the execution time for scientific applications.

Leaders from the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy visited PNNL October 19–20 for a firsthand look at capabilities and research progress.

Tumeo will lead the ChemComp project, which was awarded for Exploratory Research in Extreme Scale Science

PNNL’s Andrea Mengual co-chaired a working group that produced Building Performance Standards: A Technical Resource Guide. PNNL’s Kim Cheslak, Bing Liu, and Jian Zhang contributed to the effort.

Stinis will serve as a principal investigator on two of the four projects selected for funding by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.

Researchers unveil user-friendly software to keep complex projects on budget and on schedule.

The Rapid Assessment of Platform Technologies to Expedite Response project aims to prepare against future pandemics.

The award was given at the 29th International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies.

Zhijie (Jay) Xu will apply his expertise in multiscale modeling to this editorial role.

PNNL researchers present challenges and opportunities for fusing graph neural networks with deep reinforcement learning.

ACMD staff contributed to 30 years of atmospheric data collection for the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers has given its 2022 Journal Paper Award to Jamie Kono, a PNNL building research engineer.

PNNL researchers outline open problems in different scientific areas in the Journal of Combinatorics.

Adam Attarian led a new panel session, titled National Labs and the GEOINT Mission, at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium, held May 21–24, 2023.