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 ...

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 ...

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 lab’s latest addition aims to reduce energy use across the country by improving energy efficiency in buildings, which account for about 40 percent of all energy use in the United States.

In the hills above Berkeley, Cindy Regnier steps into a small office with sweeping views of the bay and urges visitors to watch their feet.

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 ...

FLEXLAB, short for the Facility for Low Energy Experiments, opened this summer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Scientists, architects, and engineers can use these four buildings to mimic ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- It's hard to know just how energy efficient a building really is until it is constructed. Now a new laboratory can test drive its design beforehand. On Thursday, at the ...

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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 ...