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21st of May 2013
The IRUSE Galway are organising a full-day workshop on June 24 ^th , 2013 that will be held in the Engineering Building at NUI Galway. The workshop will explore the topic of " Integrated modelling and performance of built environments". Considering the importance of aggressive energy efficiency measures in the building sector together with the requirements for safe, healthy and comfortable built environments this workshop will give an important insight for researchers and industry into both environmental and energy aspects in buildings.

This Engineers Ireland CPD training approved workshop will be a great opportunity to present research currently being done in Ireland on modelling and performance of built environments. Moreover, this workshop will help in networking between various research groups and companies in Ireland that work in the field of built environments.

The provisional agenda for the workshop includes:

8.30 - 9.00 Registration

9.00 - 10.00 Welcome address

10.00 - 10.40 Session 1: Sustainable buildings

10.40 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 11.40 Session 2: Ventilation and air quality

11.40 - 12.20 Session 3: Hygrothermal analysis

12.20 - 13.00 Session 4: Building air tightness

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.40 Session 5: Building acoustics

14.40 - 15.20 Session 6: Fire resistance

15.20 - 16.50 Open discussions

16.50 - 17.00 Closing address

Anyone interested in attending the workshop, please contact

Magdalena Hajdukiewicz.

22nd of April 2013

A new two-year project, funded by the Irish Research Council and Oran Pre-Cast Ltd., has commenced. This project will examine the influence of advanced structural building component properties on indoor environments. The project starts an exciting collaboration with an industrial partner Oran Pre-Cast Ltd, one of the largest and most progressive indigenous pre-cast manufacturers in Ireland ( http://www.oranprecast.ie/). All the best for the project!

5th March 2013
IRUSE-NUIG, were recently invited to take part in the " Uncertainty Analysis (UA) in Building Energy Simulation " clinic at Georgia Institute of Technology, with whom NUI, Galway have an academic partnership. Dr. Marcus Keane (Director/Lead PI, IRUSE), Daniel Coakley (Senior Researcher, IRUSE) and Prof. Padraic O'Donoghue (Snr. Prof., Dept. of Civil Engineering) travelled to Georgia for a week-long workshop on a suite of uncertainty analysis tools developed by PhD and Post-Doctoral students working in the Schools of Architecture and Mechanical Engineering at GA Tech. The parties involved in this clinic included: GATech, (Organisers), Cambridge University (UK), Argonne National Lab (USA), Oakridge National Lab (USA), Portland State University (USA) and University of Pennsylvania (USA). The clinic proposed a seismic shift in the way we think about and conduct building energy design and simulation, with particular emphasis on uncertainty in building, climate and model approximation. With international focus shifting towards energy efficiency in buildings and the growing emergence of energy performance contracting (EPC) in the Building Services sector, this collaboration provides an excellent base for future research projects in a huge emerging market.

First row (L-R): Fried Augenbroe (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yeonsook Heo (Argonne National Lab), Ruchi Choudhary (Cambridge University) Huafen Hu (Portland State University) Bin Yan (University of Pennsylvania). Second row (L-R): Benjamin Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology), Qi Li (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yuming Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), Daniel Coakley(National University of Ireland, Galway), Adam Rysanek (Cambridge University), Marcus Keane (National University of Ireland, Galway), Qinpeng Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Im Piljae (Oak Ridge National Lab), Jackson Roderick K (Oak Ridge National Lab), Li Gu (Georgia Institute of Technology).

For further information on this collaboration, or any other IRUSE activities, please direct your queries to Dr. Marcus Keane or Daniel Coakley.

26th July 2012
The NUI Galway IT department have kindly agreed to host a MySQL database that contains a duplicate of all the archived BMS data from the New Engineering Building. This extremely useful resource is accessible for research and education purposes.

30th June 2012
The IRUSE group members will be volunteering in the NUI Galway tent at the Volvo Ocean Races in Galway. We'll be giving
live demonstrations of the building management management system for the New Engineering Building. We hope to see you there!

4th May 2012
IRUSE would like to welcome Jesús Febres as a new member of the group. Jesús has experience with modelling, simulation and artificial intelligence and will be joining the group as a research masters student developing Modelica models of HVAC systems for fault detection and diagnosis.

19th April 2012
Dr. Elmer Morrissey, a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Simulation Research Group, was among four sailors who were lost at sea after a boating accident on Saturday, 14th April 2012. He was part of an eight-member crew participating in a yacht race. A large wave washed some of the crew overboard near San Francisco's Farallones Islands and eventually the crew lost their boat during their rescue efforts as a result of being struck by another series of waves. Of the eight people on board, three were rescued, one was found dead, and four remain missing. The Coast Guard suspended the search as the window of survivability had closed.

Elmer received his Bachelor's degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering (2002) and pursued his Doctorate in Engineering (2002-2006) within the Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering (IRUSE) at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. In 2004 Elmer carried out part of the research for his dissertation at LBNL under the co-supervision of Dr. Vladimir Bazjanac, which focused on the communication of building energy performance throughout the building life cycle, at LBNL. In 2011, Elmer re-joined LBNL as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and was considered a promising rising star within LBNL's Simulation Research Group.

As Director of IRUSE and more importantly as a colleague and friend of Elmer, I would like to personally and on behalf of past and present IRUSE colleagues express my profound shock and sadness regarding this tragic loss. I have known Elmer as an undergraduate and postgraduate student. Elmer was first and foremost an admirable and decent human being with a sunny and optimistic outlook that affected everyone that had the fortune of engaging with him, both in social occasions and professional activities. Elmer was first rate professional engineer and gifted researcher who found solutions through a combination of intelligence, pragmatism and above all good humour.

Elmer will be sadly missed by us all.
Dr. Marcus Keane

IRUSE contact details:

Dr. Marcus Keane, Director, marcus.keane

nuigalway.ie, +353 (0)91 49 2619
This page was last updated Wednesday, May 22, 2013