On Sept. 12, crews successfully rotated a 64-ft-dia turntable, complete with its unique cable management system, for the world's first revolving rent-a-lab for full-scale green-building-systems ...

Researchers at the FLEXLAB facility, a unique buildings testbed at Berkeley Lab, are helping the buildings and utilities sectors and U.S. policymakers develop new technologies for a zero-carbon future ...

High in the Berkeley Hills overlooking San Francisco Bay sit four modern steel-blue buildings that resemble pint-size Ikea stores. Inside, scientists have built a first-of-its-kind test bed to invent ...

BERKELEY — The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, located in the hills above UC Berkeley with sweeping views of the Bay, has long been known for its cutting-edge research in energy efficiency. On ...

BERKELEY — The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, located in the hills above UC Berkeley with sweeping views of the Bay, has long been known for its cutting-edge research in energy efficiency. On ...

The world's most advanced energy efficiency test bed for buildings is open for business, launched today (July 10) by U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman. DOE's FLEXLAB at ...

High up in the hills of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sit four square, blue buildings you’d be forgiven for finding nondescript. Inside, they’re decorated with drab gray carpet familiar to any ...

Cindy Regnier, manager of the world's first research laboratory for full-scale performance mock-ups of integrated green-building systems, is canvassing the globe to find partners and research sponsors ...

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Regnier plans to take FLEXLAB's findings into the marketplace. "I am hopeful we can come up with off-the-shelf solutions for integrated designs," she says. For that goal, the Berkeley lab has an ...