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syracusecoe.org 2010 : A Vision, Sustained

1996: “Vision 2010” charts the course for 2001: New York establishes the Environmental Quality Systems strengthening the economy of Central New York. The (EQS) Strategically Targeted Academic Research (STAR) Center, led by regional blueprint by CenterState CEO targets key Syracuse University in collaboration with the NYIEQ Center, CenterState industry clusters, including environmental quality and CEO, and 10 academic and research institutions. energy systems. At Syracuse University, the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science adopts 2002: SyracuseCoE is established by New York State as one of a strategic plan aligned with Vision 2010 priorities. six statewide Centers of Excellence, incorporating activities of NYIEQ and the EQS STAR Centers.

In 2005, the groundbreaking for the headquarters building site showed the strong dedication of NYS elected offi cials to SyracuseCoE.

NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand greets Tony Collins, President of Clarkson University, at the 2010 High Tech Innovation Showcase in Washington, DC.

2009: SyracuseCoE and Syracuse University hosts the 9th NYIEQ’s fi rst major funded research project was a $850K grant to study childhood asthma from the US Department of International Healthy Buildings Conference and Exhibition, which Housing and Urban Development, secured by US Rep. James attracts more than 1700 attendees from 44 nations. Walsh (R-NY). Here, researchers from SUNY Upstate Medical University take air samples in patients homes.

CenterState CEO launches the New York During the closing ceremony of Greenbuild 2010 - “Generation 2000: Green: Redefi ning Our Future” - SyracuseCoE was named the winner Indoor Environmental Quality (NYIEQ) Center, Inc. to of the 2010 Leadership Award by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in the Non-Governmental Sector. The leadership award is promote regional university-industry collaborations. given to recipients for their recognized leadership and commitment to the evolution of green building design and construction.

2 Syracuse Center of Excellence SyracuseCoE originated in 1996 from visions that targeted regional collaborations in environmental and energy systems. In 2010, we celebrate achievements that fulfi ll original visions. We look forward to building on these successes for generations to come.

2010: Today, SyracuseCoE engages more than 200 New York Energy fi rms, institutions and organizations to accelerate innovative 2010 Onward: Selected NYE-RIC Assets Regional Innovation Cluster (NYE-RIC), a statewide technologies to the marketplace and grow jobs and wealth alliance, was formed focusing on effectively in Central New York. We opened our unique headquarters developing a collaborative network to transform in March and dozens of research, demonstration, and the “value chain” in which energy-effi cient building commercialization projects have seen signifi cant results. systems of every type and on every scale are conceived, invented, developed, demonstrated, and deployed. Spearheaded by SyracuseCoE and in cooperation with the Partnership for New York City and CenterState CEO, NYE-RIC engages more than 130 fi rms and institutions. 2010: The US Green Building Council (USGBC) names SyracuseCoE winner of its 2010 Leadership Award in the Non-Governmental Organization Sector in November.

Future: Through continued leadership in the creation of cutting-edge green technologies, we continue to address global challenges that affect our world each day. Our statewide alliance includes internationally recognized research and development capabilities and has unmatched expertise to speed development and deployment of game-changing innovations by breaking down critical barriers in economics, policy, human behavior and technology integration.

Annual Progress Report 2010 3 THE SYRACUSE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE INNOVATION ECOSYSSTEM

Central to SyracuseCoE’s mission, vision, and purpose, the Innovation Ecosystem encourages and funds collaborative Indoor Clean & Water Environmental Renewable Resources projects that develop new environmental and energy systems Quality Energy products and services. These projects generate research, demonstrate new technologies, commercialize innovations, and educate the workforce and the community through outreach.

Concentrating on clean and renewable energy, indoor environmental quality, and water resources, the Innovation

Ecosystem improves built and natural environments—the Research Demonstration places in which we live, work, learn, and play.

When the blue arrow is When the orange arrow is SyracuseCoE’s three specialized teams focus on research, shown, a story is an example shown, a story is an example of a SyracuseCoE targeted, of a SyracuseCoE green and industry collaboration and sustainable community solutions. collaborative research project. clean technology testing and In research, we are at the forefront of groundbreaking new green demonstration project. and clean technologies, leveraging world-class R&D facilities from the iconic, high-performance, LEED–Platinum-designed “living laboratory” that is the SyracuseCoE headquarters to the state- Outreach Commercialization of-the-art labs of our partners. We drive and accelerate innovative research to the marketplace through strategic industry When the yellow arrow is When the green arrow is shown, a story is an example shown, a story is an example collaborations regionally, nationally, and internationally. of a SyracuseCoE workforce of a SyracuseCoE green We create sustainable community solutions by deploying and development or public and clean technology implementing new technologies and bringing the latest knowledge outreach project. commercialization project. on environmental sustainability to the public through educational and training programs.

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4 Syracuse Center of Excellence Carrier Corp. President Geraud Darnis leads a group of representatives of SyracuseCoE industry, academic, and government partners in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Willis H. Carrier Total Indoor Environmental Quality (TIEQ) lab at the SyracuseCoE headquarters.

Annual Progress2010 Report Vision 2010 2 PG: 9 PG: 2/3 PG: 26 Message from the Chairman 6 PG: 13 SyracuseCoE HQ Building PG: 8 Research Projects 7 PG: 21 PG: 18 PG: 16 SyracuseCoE HQ Dedication PG: 17 PG: 11 and Open House 8 PG: 19 PG: 10 PG: 18 SyracuseCoE Year in Review 10

PG: 10 PG: 29 Project Focus 20 On the PG: 26 COVER: SyracuseCoE Members 30

Printed in the U.S.A. on 100% PCW Mohawk Options—manufactured with Green-e certifi ed windpower. Annual Progress Report 2010 5 SyracuseCoE Board Members and Offi cers Peter G. King (Chair) Managing Partner and CEO, King + King Architects, LLP F. Mathew Zlomek (President) Hugh Henderson (Secretary) President, CDH Energy Corporation MESSAGE SyracuseCoE Board Members Richard Cauchon Jatin Khanpara FROM THE CHAIRMAN Corporate Initiatives, Vice President, Technology and Sensis Corporation Components Global Engineering, PETER G. KING, MANAGING PARTNER AND CEO, KING + KING ARCHITECTS Anthony Collins Carrier Corporation President, Clarkson University Gina Lee-Glauser Vice President of Research, Susan Crossett If 2009 was the year that construction and abandoned commercial building Vice President, Economic Development Syracuse University put SyracuseCoE on renovations began in earnest, breathing life into a and Community Investment, Orrin B. MacMurray National Grid USA Chairman, The C&S Companies the international stage once-forgotten part of Syracuse. R. Leland Davis John McAuliffe as host of the Healthy President and COO, O’Brien & Gere Syracuse Program Director, Honeywell, Inc. Buildings conference, This progression was the result of strong Robert DelZoppo Cornelius B. Murphy Jr. 2010 was the year we relationships, dedicated partners, visionary Corporate Technology Director, SRC President, SUNY College capitalized on our thinking, and an unparalleled level of expertise. Seth Dunn of Environmental Science and Forestry newfound elite status It takes planning and leadership to keep this Americas Policy Leader – Renewables, GE James Olcott at the forefront of the momentum going, which is why, in 2010, we Energy Energy Department Manager, sustainability movement. turned our attention to board development and S. Richard Fedrizzi The C&S Companies educational initiatives to encourage the next President, CEO, and Founding Chairman, Norm Scott US Green Building Council Professor, Cornell University As recognized experts, SyracuseCoE and our generation of environmentally minded citizens and Steven R. Goodman Rob Simpson members were featured in articles in The Boston business leaders. To that effect, we launched the Vice President of Research and Dean President and CEO, Globe and The New York Times, and our industry Graduate Fellowship Program and joined SUNY of the College of Graduate Studies, CenterState Corporation for and university partners received numerous national Stony Brook’s New York Energy Policy Institute. SUNY Upstate Medical University Economic Opportunity honors and grant awards for innovative practices. Marilyn Higgins Kevin Stack That list included a $500,000 grant from the federal In 2011, we will continue to implement meaningful Vice President of Community President, Northeast Green government to support SyracuseCoE projects to sustainable practices and green and clean Engagement and Economic Impact, Building Consulting, LLC improve energy effi ciency and indoor environments. technologies in built environments and communities, Syracuse University Laura Steinberg Patrick Jackson Dean, L.C. Smith College of give greater focus to research that leads to Director, Global Energy, Corning Engineering and Computer Science, This year, our public/private partnerships continued demonstration and commercialization, and Syracuse University to fl ourish, proving once again the power of maximize the use of the SyracuseCoE HQ as an Lawrence Wetzel collaboration. These alignments with, among others, incubator and living laboratory. Chairman, Air Innovations Siemens, Interface Americas, SUNY Stony Brook, and National Grid expand our capabilities in clean Commitment, creative thinking, hard work, and and renewable energy, indoor environmental quality, progressive practices defi ne our staff, members, and SyracuseCoE Offi cers and water resources. collaborators. Through their dedication, SyracuseCoE Edward Bogucz will fulfi ll its mission to revolutionize the way the Executive Director, SyracuseCoE During 2010 we saw the Near Westside Initiative— world lives, works, and learns. Peter Freer (Treasurer) a LEED Neighborhood Development project right in Principal, Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa our backyard—take wing as new green home Here’s to a Green and Clean 2011!

6 Syracuse Center of Excellence SYRACUSECOE HQ BUILDING RESEARCH PROJECTS

The SyracuseCoE Headquarters Building is a test bed for environmental and energy technologies and building innovations, with laboratory and offi ce space for research and business collaborations on products and services in SyracuseCoE’s core focus areas of clean and renewable energy, indoor environmental quality, and water resources.

The following research projects were ongoing in and around the building in fall 2010: Daylighting and Human Performance study Lead PI: Usha Satish, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Human productivity study Lead PI: Alan Hedge, Cornell University

Precipitation study Distributed ventilation study Lead PI: Charles Driscoll, Lead PI: Ez Khalifa, Syracuse University Syracuse University

CFD modeling of full-scale building Lead PI: Goodarz Ahmadi, Urban ecosystem monitoring Clarkson University Lead PI: Phil Hopke, Clarkson University

Indoor/outdoor air quality study Lead PI: Jensen Zhang, Syracuse University

Wireless building sensor study Lead PI: Jensen Zhang, Syracuse University iBox/SEED Urban Farm & Greenhouse project Lead PI (iBox): Kevin Lair, Syracuse University

Web-based personal ventilation system demonstration Green building indoor air quality study Lead PI: Marek Podgorny, Collabworx Lead PI: Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University

Groundsource heating/cooling system study Lead PI: Suresh Santanam, SyracuseCoE Dynamic solar façade demonstration Lead PI: Anna Dyson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thermal performance of a green roof study Lead PI: Cliff Davidson, Syracuse University

Greenroof and water quality study PI = Principal Investigator Lead PI: Charles Driscoll, Syracuse University Learn more at syracusecoe.org

Annual Progress Report 2010 7 Jake Edwards, Chief of the Onondaga Nation, delivers the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address.

New York State Senator John DeFrancisco speaks at the HQ dedication ceremony.

Pete King, Managing Partner and CEO of King + King Architects and SyracuseCoE Board Chair, tours the Carrier Total Indoor Environmental Quality Lab on the HQ’s More than 1,400 guests visited and fi fth fl oor. toured the HQ over two days.

Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and President, Syracuse University, and Ed Bogucz, Executive Director, SyracuseCoE, lead the ribbon-cutting.

For a tour of the SyracuseCoE headquarters building, visit syracusecoe.org.

8 Syracuse Center of Excellence Rob Simpson, President and CEO of CenterState CEO, speaks at the HQ dedication ceremony.

HQ dedication ceremony guests sing along with the Shenandoahs.

NYS State Senator David J. Valesky speaks at the SyracuseCoE headquarters dedication.

Joanne Shenandoah—along with sister Diane and daughter Leah Shenandoah—sang “Your Legacy,” especially written for SyracuseCoE and its collaborators.

DISCOVER A NEW ANGLE ON SUSTAINABILITY SYRACUSE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE HEADQUARTERS DEDICATION AND OPEN HOUSE

“After all is said and done, what will be your legacy / Seeds of life MARCH 5 & 6, 2010 that you sowed, crops, fl owers, and trees / Your child’s great grandchild will see the mark you leave.”—Joanne Shenandoah Lisa Heinzerling, Associate Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Offi ce of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, met with students and faculty at Syracuse University and spoke at the HQ dedication ceremony.

Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, addresses guests at the SyracuseCoE HQ Open House.

Annual Progress Report 2010 9 YEAR IN REVIEW One of the World’s Greenest Data Centers Opens at SU

In December 2009 SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University, with partners IBM and New York State, opened the Green Data Center (GDC)— a showcase of world-class innovations in advanced energy-effi cient information technology and building systems.

The $12.4 million, 12,000-square-foot facility on SU’s South Campus uses an innovative on-site power

generation system for electricity, heating, and (L to R) SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Siemens Global Head of Research and Innovation for Building cooling, and incorporates IBM’s latest energy- Technologies Division Dr. Osman Ahmed; SyracuseCoE Executive Director Ed Bogucz; Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor; Siemens Vice President and Head of the Building effi cient servers, computer-cooling technology, and Technologies Division’s Control Products and Systems Business Unit Christoph Vogel; US Rep. Dan Maffei; NY Assemblyman William B. Magnarelli; SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina; and system management software. It uses about 50% SyracuseCoE Board Chair Peter King. less energy than a typical data center in operation today, making it one of the world’s “greenest” data centers. Siemens Announces $1.55M Strategic Partnership with SyracuseCoE Syracuse University engineering Professor Ezzat Khalifa, SyracuseCoE provided funding toward the R&D center, explains technologies used at the Green Data Center of many of the GDC’s energy-effi cient features. In particular, Professor Ezzat Khalifa of the NYSTAR- awarded EQS STAR Center is conducting research about how to effi ciently power and heat/cool the facility. Further, Kahlifa’s team will fully instrument the GDC, turning it into a research apparatus and test The Building Technologies Division of SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Siemens announced on December 7, 2009, a pledge of $1.55 million to SyracuseCoE as part of a multi-year bed that will benefi t data center design and operation strategic and collaborative partnership to support research and other initiatives, driving throughout the world. sustainability and energy effi ciency in buildings.

This partnership allows SyracuseCoE and its regional stakeholders the opportunity to create a roadmap for sustainable building development, to execute specifi c research projects, to fund graduate student research in SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, and to engage Siemens’ global network of innovation. Nick Donofrio, IBM Executive Vice President of Innovation (retired), speaks at the opening of Further, Siemens will directly support the maintenance and operation of the SyracuseCoE Syracuse University’s Green Data Center. headquarters building from its branch offi ce in Syracuse, which employs 75 people and is joined regionally by another 235 employees serving Central Upstate New York and Vermont.

10 Syracuse Center of Excellence EFC WINS SIX-YEAR US SyracuseCoE Awards EPA COMPETITIVE GRANT 2010 Graduate Fellowship Maffei Announces The EFC is part of the Environmental Finance Center Network (EFCN), which was $500K for established in 1993 by the US EPA to help SyracuseCoE Projects local municipal leaders with the “how to pay” to Improve Energy question when it comes to environmental REVIEW In January 2010, SyracuseCoE launched its infrastructure (particularly water and Effi ciency, Indoor competitively awarded one-year Graduate wastewater) improvements and innovations. Environments Fellowship program. Fellowship projects address research questions associated with air quality or IN The EFC has been tasked with facilitating In December 2009, the US Environmental water resource management, in support of the the development of sustainable communities. Protection Agency (US EPA) announced a development of technology innovations for Housed in the SyracuseCoE Center for six-year $1 million grant that provides core improving environmental quality in built and Sustainable Community Solutions, EFC funding necessary for the Environmental urban environments. leverages more than 200 partners, connecting Finance Center at Syracuse University (EFC) local government offi cials and private YEAR to offer multi-year programming and services In 2010, 16 applications were received with the organizations with technical assistance, to a greater number of municipalities in US following three fellows and projects chosen by assessment tools, and funding offered by this EPA Region 2—New York, New Jersey, SyracuseCoE’s Scientifi c Advisory Committee. large network of collaborators and resources. Puerto Rico, the US Virgin lslands and eight tribal nations. • Kristen Malone, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Advisor: Jason Vollen), “Enclosures for Water Reuse: Building-Integrated Solar-Thermal Pasteurization” • Skye Elliot Gruen, Rensselaer Polytechnic EFC Launches NYAgTrader.org US Rep. Dan Maffei announced in December 2009 $500K to Institute (Advisor: Anna Dyson), “Dynamic SyracuseCoE for R&D projects in Solar Façade System: Building Integrated In December 2009, the Environmental up with people who can use them, which energy-effi cient innovations for Distributed Power Generation” Finance Center at Syracuse University (EFC) decreases waste. Also, connecting farmers healthy buildings. Maffei secured the • Kwanghoon Han, Syracuse University funds from the US Department of launched NYAgTrader.org, which allows with each other can bring additional (Advisor: Jensen Zhang), “Development of Energy. The funding supports farmers throughout the state to advertise benefi ts such as social networking, and SyracuseCoE projects conducted Emission Source Identifi cation Method by and trade any material that can be used on a shared ideas and information.” A sister site, in multiple facilities, including PTR-MS Material Emission Signature” farm, such as hay, manure, equipment, and NYFoodTrader.org, went online in the SyracuseCoE’s headquarters building livestock. Farmers visiting the website can summer of 2009 as a place where producers and homes and offi ces in Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood. The search by item category and location and and consumers can post and trade any projects will incorporate emerging post their own “wanted” items. food items grown in New York. Required energy and IEQ technologies, such membership is free for both sites. as power generation from renewable “It’s like Craigslist for agriculture,” explains sources, including sun, wind and Melissa Young, EFC Program Manager and biomass; systems that combine heating, cooling, and power creator of the site. “By connecting farmers, generation; active building façades; we can ensure that farm products wind natural ventilation; and under-fl oor SyracuseCoE Graduate Fellow Skye Elliot Gruen of air distribution. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is working on the Dynamic Solar Façade System, currently being demonstrated at the SyracuseCoE HQ building

Annual Progress Report 2010 11 GLSEC BRINGS BI-NATIONAL ENERGY MEETING TO SYRACUSE

cleantech c e n t e r REVIEW The Clean Tech Center, Great Lakes Sustainable Energy Consortium

IN Collaborators Make List of Technology Development Commercialization Economic Growth Top 10 Clean Tech Clusters Syracuse University and SyracuseCoE hosted a Great Lakes Leading the discussion on the Canadian side were representatives In March 2010, the Clean Tech Center—a Sustainable Energy Consortium (GLSEC) bi-national meeting in from the Canadian Consulate in Buffalo and Queen’s University core asset of New York’s Creative Core—was March2010 to discuss growing the clean energy economy in Central at Kingston. The event built on the work of the Thousand Islands named one of the “Top 10 Cleantech Cluster Upstate New York and the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Energy Research Forum (TIERF), which was held in fall 2009 to YEAR Organizations 2010” in a report produced consortium, which is focused on research, development, and discuss sustainable energy strategies for Canada and the US. by Sustainable World Capital for The commercialization of renewable energy technologies and systems, Cleantech Group. discussed research advancements that can be put to work in an economic development framework. The Clean Tech Center was ranked second in the US over CleanTech San Diego and The Environmental Business Cluster in San Jose, CA. In the world it is ranked ahead of Sweden’s Haledyne, an Ohio-based Stockholm Miljöteknikcenter and Canada’s company focused on indoor air quality and energy effi ciency, Ontario Clean Water Initiative. recently announced it is relocating its headquarters to Wrote Shawn Lesser of Sustainable World the Clean Tech Center, with Capital, “You’ve heard of the Big Apple. The plans to create 106 new jobs within three to fi ve years. The Green Apple is Central Upstate New York. Demonstration company’s presence strengthens With 38 colleges and universities, 138,000 Research the region’s reputation as a leader arrow= college students, $2 billion in annually funded in R&D and manufacturing of arrow= R&D, and a green landscape that supports clean technologies for energy- Orange

Blue effi cient buildings. clean energy production, New York’s “green core” is launching and growing clean tech enterprises. The Clean Tech Center at Syracuse-based The Tech Garden, as well as SyracuseCoE, are at the forefront of the Outreach green innovation movement.” arrow= Commercialization Yellow arrow= Green

12 Syracuse Center of Excellence EFC Provides Technical Assistance EFC Wins $180K USDA for US EPA Pilot Program Solid Waste Technical Assistance Grant NATIONAL GRID CEO VISITS The “Beyond SYRACUSECOE HQ Waste” concept, which is promoted In February 2010, it was announced that the Environmental in New York State Finance Center at Syracuse University (EFC) will provide Department of REVIEW technical assistance to New York State’s Environmental Facilities Environmental Conservation’s draft Solid Waste Management Corporation for the US Environmental Protection Agency Plan, reframes post-consumer materials not simply as trash (US EPA) Pilot Technical Assistance Program. The program is but as reusable resources. This represents a paradigm shift in IN part of the recently formed Housing and Urban Development/US the way many think about waste and the cycle of production, Department of Transportation/US EPA Sustainable Communities consumption, and disposal. Partnership. New York is one of three states chosen by US EPA to participate in this pilot project. The Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University (EFC) is developing new programming to assist rural

New York State’s unique relationship with EFC presents an ideal communities as they transition to the Beyond Waste model, YEAR opportunity for cooperation and partnership in achieving common including solid waste management training, assistance with goals. The EFC will work with the NYS Environmental Facilities drafting local resolutions, and citizen outreach and education. Corporation (NYSEFC), which is able to provide incentives to These efforts further the vision of solid waste shared by EFC, encourage funding towards more sustainable water and waste its partners, and New York State. water infrastructure investments. These incentives include adjustments to project priority-setting systems, voluntary state It was announced in April 2010 that EFC is partnering with set-asides, and strategic use of subsidies. the New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling (NYSAR3) and Reuse Alliance (RA) to provide SyracuseCoE Executive Director Ed Bogucz (left) The aim of the pilot project is to promote more widespread no-cost assistance to rural communities through: leads SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner National Grid adoption of practices that encourage reinvestment and effi ciency CEO Steve Holliday on a tour of the SyracuseCoE in infrastructure systems. To do this, the New York State • Training sessions for rural government offi cials on waste headquarters building, accompanied by Susan partnership will identify opportunities to incorporate best challenges, possible waste reduction opportunities, and Crossett, National Grid Senior Vice President management practices into priority systems and intended use potential policy mechanisms to address these issues. of Economic Development and Community plans and to incentivize smart growth, energy effi ciency, asset • Web-based training for rural solid waste management Investment. In April 2010, SyracuseCoE hosted management, and green infrastructure through the Clean Water technicians. Water Resources a visit by Holliday and members of his executive State Revolving Fund (SRF). • Virtual materials reuse marketplaces, facilitated by team. Holliday received an overview of NYSAR3 and RA, where rural offi cials and residents can SyracuseCoE and its headquarters building,

The pilot program will provide technical assistance to New York, buy, sell, and trade reusable construction materials and as well as updates on regional green and clean & California, and Maryland to modify their existing Clean Water SRF agricultural biomass. tech development, business attraction, innovation Clean Renewable Energy programs to ensure their state water infrastructure investments • Rural community outreach and education on how citizens and entrepreneurial initiatives, and investment are used to promote more sustainable investments. can lower the impact of their household waste while efforts from representatives of CenterState CEO,

reaping additional health and economic benefi ts. the Clean Tech Center, and National Grid’s

Syracuse offi ce. Indoor Environmental Quality

Annual Progress Report 2010 13 Interface Americas EFC ASSISTS PUERTO RICO, John Wells Visit USVI WITH SOLID WASTE

of Commerce and the Metropolitan MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Development Agency of Syracuse and Central New York. Rob Simpson—a SyracuseCoE board member—was named US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) complex relationships and associations, the the organization’s President. “A lot of bets Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck established unpredictability of complex systems, the are going to be made in clean technology,” Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Recycling qualitative and quantitative nature of the said Wells at SyracuseCoE. “This is the Partnerships to promote waste reduction, PRRP’s challenge, and importantly, the

REVIEW place to secure those bets.” recycling, and clean composting. This emergent and transformative nature of working partnership includes all levels of major endeavors, such as those defi ned by In August 2010, SyracuseCoE hosted a government, non-profi t organizations, citizens, the PRRP’s and US Virgin Islands Recycling return visit by a team of executives from IN John Wells (at right, with SyracuseCoE Interface Americas. Included in this day- environmental groups, and the private sector. Partnership’s charges. Executive Director Ed Bogucz), President long series of meetings and events was It was announced in May 2010 that the and CEO of Interface Americas, visited a SyracuseCoE Research & Technology Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse The collaborative governance model is SyracuseCoE’s headquarters building in Forum presentation by John Bradford, University (EFC) will play a key role in recognized as an optimum leadership and May 2010. Sustainable InterfaceFLOR Interface Americas Chief Innovations this partnership. management tool best suited for facilitating carpeting is installed in the HQ. Wells was Offi cer, on “Redesigning Design.” and operating in multi-organizational

YEAR in Syracuse as a guest speaker at the The intent of the partnership is to design arrangements. It is particularly useful to inaugural meeting of the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity programs, educate the public, and ensure solve problems that cannot be solved, or (CenterState CEO), which celebrated effective implementation. The Puerto Rico solved easily, by single organizations. Some the merging of the Syracuse Chamber Recycling Partnership (PRRP), for instance, collaborative governance methods that are uses a collaborative governance/problem- employed by the PRRP include working solving process to lead its activities. This groups, task forces, monitoring committees, SyracuseCoE Collaborators “systems thinking” approach to problem- process facilitation, advisory groups, and Selected by US DOE for solving takes into consideration diverse and joint fact-fi nding. Energy-Effi cient Housing Partnership

In July 2010, the US Department of to support US DOE’s energy-effi ciency Energy (US DOE) announced 15 research retrofi t programs. and deployment partnerships to help dramatically improve the energy One team—Advanced Residential effi ciency of American homes. These Integrated Energy Solutions (ARIES), led highly qualifi ed, multidisciplinary teams by Levy Partnership, New York, NY—will will receive a total of up to $30 million to focus on energy solutions for new and deliver innovative energy-effi ciency existing affordable housing including strategies to the residential market and factory- and site-built homes. ARIES is address barriers to bringing high-effi ciency a broad-based industry team of more than homes within reach for all Americans. 50 organizations including implementers, product suppliers, and trainers. The These partnerships will provide technical ARIES technical team members include assistance to retrofi t projects and will SyracuseCoE Patron CDH Energy and The Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University will play a key role in the Puerto leverage industry expertise and funding SyracuseCoE. Rico and US Virgin Islands Recycling Partnerships.

14 Syracuse Center of Excellence EFC WINS $394K GRANT FROM ONONDAGA COUNTY FOR “SAVE THE RAIN” CAMPAIGN

In July 2010, the Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University (EFC) was awarded a $393,896 Green Infrastructure Outreach and Education grant from Onondaga County to George Dannecker, President and CEO of VetteCorp and Coolcentric water-cooled server at REVIEW revitalize and grow the “Save the Rain” campaign, which aims to recipient of a $50,000 CAP Award, left, greets NY Assemblyman Syracuse University’s Green Data Center teach residents and businesses about the importance of capturing William Magnarelli, who secured the funds for the award. storm water to reduce combined sewer overfl ows (CSOs). Project IN partners include SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner SUNY College of Magnarelli Announces Environmental Science and Forestry, Onondaga Environmental Institute, Baltimore Woods, Southside Interfaith, Atlantic States Commercialization Awards for Legal Foundation, and Partnership for Onondaga Creek. Five Upstate Companies

The project team will use a combination of targeted education YEAR efforts alongside a broad outreach campaign. With this grant, In July 2010, New York Assemblyman William Magnarelli (D-120)—along with SyracuseCoE and CenterState the team will host rain barrel educational workshops, utilize social Corporation for Economic Opportunity—announced that fi ve Central Upstate New York companies are the Onondaga County Executive media tools, create curricula for Syracuse City School District recipients of fi fth-round Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) awards totaling $246,475 to promote the Joanie Mahoney speaks on commercialization of innovative green and clean technologies.The announcement was made at the Green Data Center classrooms, host design charettes, work with the Onondaga behalf of the “Save the Rain” on the campus of SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University, where technology developed by one of the campaign at EFC’s Green Earth Corps to reach neighborhoods, create experiential learning recipients—Vette Corp.—is being used. Infrastructure Conference, co-hosted with SUNY ESF. opportunities for community members and green jobs trainees, and more. Combined, the projects being commercialized by these companies—thanks to funding secured by Magnarelli—have the potential for creating as many as 111 high-value jobs and tens of millions in new revenue for Central Upstate New York and other Upstate regions over the next fi ve years. Why should residents try to “Save the Rain”? In Onondaga County, many The fi ve CAP award-winning companies were: sewers are combined—meaning that the same sewers that transport sanitary • ACT Bioenergy of Schenectady, NY—ACT Bioenergy is producing a commercial-scale, high-effi ciency wood waste also capture rainwater. During pellet/wood chip gasifi cation boiler for use in institutional, commercial, and multifamily residential buildings. • Orthogonal of Ithaca, NY—Orthogonal is commercializing a patent-pending, non-toxic photoresist large storms, the design of this (light-sensitive material) for producing organic electronics, including photovoltaics and energy-effi cient solid infrastructure often results in CSOs state lighting (OLEDs). that adversely affect water quality • Cameron Manufacturing & Design of Horseheads, NY—Cameron Manufacturing & Design will create a throughout the county. comprehensive commercialization plan for the patented Grid Electrode Precipitator (GEP) that is currently in the fi nal stages of design and manufacturing by Cameron at SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Clarkson University. • Vette Corp. of Ontario, NY—Vette Corp.’s Open Sidecar “Coolcentric” is a passive“in-row” data center While some traditional grey infrastructure cooling product based on patent-pending technology. As of Dec.2009, fi ve prototype units have been (such as storage facilities and pipes) manufactured and installed at Syracuse University’s Green Data Center. will be utilized to reduce this problem, • e2e Materials of Ithaca, NY—This project will focus on the acquisition, installation, testing, and trial of a press Onondaga County is dedicated to Environmental educators from the Onondaga Earth and custom tooling to make prototype forms for its petroleum-free, biodegradable composites. Corps explain the demonstration rain garden at 515 primarily using green infrastructure—a Tully St. on Syracuse’s Near Westside To date, CAP has created or retained more than 152 green and clean technology jobs in New York State. Companies method of keeping rainwater on-site by that have benefi ted from the program can point to new products and services and, in some cases, new companies capturing it in gardens, rain barrels, green roofs, bioswales, porous pavement, and expanded operations that are gaining a foothold in this competitive market. and more. In short, the more water that stays on each individual property, the less water that ends up in the combined sewers.

Annual Progress Report 2010 15 Professor Jensen Zhang of SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith Jessica Bohn and Kevin Stack of College of Engineering and Computer Northeast Green Building Consulting

REVIEW Science addresses an international gathering of delegates at IAQVEC 2010.

IN Chris Shrimpton Nicole O’Loughlin

SYRACUSECOE SPONSORS Syracuse University Hosts INTERNSHIPS AT CENTRAL YEAR International Indoor Air UPSTATE NEW YORK FIRMS Quality Conference Clinton Smith

In August 2010, Syracuse again welcomed international The SyracuseCoE Industry Collaboration Internship Program, The goal of the program is to increase post-graduation student visitors to discuss indoor air quality, healthy buildings, and funded by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency, retention in Central Upstate by establishing valuable relationships energy effi ciency. Continuing the success of Healthy Buildings provides support for qualifi ed college students hosted between college students and regional companies doing work in 2009, hosted by SyracuseCoE, Platinum Partner Syracuse by Central Upstate New York companies working in the the energy and environmental fi elds. Starting in June 2010, the University (SU) hosted the 7th International Conference on environmental quality and indoor air quality fi elds, including SyracuseCoE funded the following internships: Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation, and Energy Conservation in high-performance/green building design. Buildings (IAQVEC 2010) from August 15 to 18. • Jessica Bohn (SUNY ESF) with SyracuseCoE Charter Member Northeast Green Building Consulting IAQVEC is a premier international conference series, held (Ecological Performance of Buildings) once every three years. Previously, it had been held in • Daniel Corbin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) with Huhtamaki (Air Quality and Sustainability Improvements)

Demonstration Montreal, Canada (1992, 1995); Lyon, France (1998); • Diana Dunn (SUNY ESF) with Antek (Estrogen Filtration) Research

arrow= Changsha, China (2001); Toronto, Canada (2004); and • Tyler Howe (Wilkes University, PA) with SyracuseCoE StartUp Partner Natural Systems Engineering

arrow= Sendai, Japan (2007). (Environmental Engineering) Orange

Blue • Nick Karker (SUNY Buffalo) with SyracuseCoE Patron CDH Energy (Field Monitoring) In addition to SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and • Tyler Mokay (Clarkson University) with SyracuseCoE Gold Partner C&S Companies Computer Science (LCS), conference co-hosts included (Rainwater Reuse at the Syracuse Airport Expansion) SyracuseCoE, the National Research Council of Canada and • Nicole O’Loughlin (Syracuse University) with SyracuseCoE StartUp Partner The Open Atelier (“The Living Wall” Project) the US Environmental Protection Agency. IAQVEC 2010’s • George Perry (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) with SyracuseCoE Silver Partner Air Innovations (Prototyping and Testing)

Outreach technical program, with a theme of “Innovation an • Jeffrey Rapp (Ithaca College) with SyracuseCoE StartUp Partner Bluepoint Environmental (Environmental Testing) Integration,” included eight keynote lectures delivered by • Stephen Rook (SUNY ESF) with Atlantic State Legal Foundation (Brownfi eld Remediation) arrow= Commercialization prominent scientists, researchers, and architects from Asia, • Chris Shrimpton (SUNY ESF) with SyracuseCoE StartUp Partner Natural Systems Engineering (Environmental Engineering) Yellow Europe, and North America, and it featured more than 150 arrow= • Clinton Smith (University of Massachusetts–Lowell) with Colden Corp. (Environmental Sampling) oral and poster presentations. • Eric Wagner (Clarkson University) with SyracuseCoE Gold Partner O’Brien & Gere (Water Conservation and Treatment) Green

16 Syracuse Center of Excellence SU, SyracuseCoE Receive Toyota Prius PHVs for Local SPREADING THE Demonstration Program SUSTAINABLE WORD

In August 2010, SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University The following are just some of the green and clean technology and and SyracuseCoE received four PHVs sustainability-themed events SyracuseCoE hosted, sponsored, exhibited as part of Toyota Motor Sales’ US at, or presented from October 2009 to September 2010: plug-in demonstration program. REVIEW CuseCar, a local not-for-profi t community car share provider utilizing • Roots of Peacemaking, Syracuse, NY, October 2009 alternatively fueled vehicles, also • Tech Garden Fall Expo, Syracuse, NY, October 2009 IN received two cars through the • SUNY ESF Climate Change Panel, Syracuse, NY, October 2009 program. Clean Communities of Central New York, the local chapter of • Imagining America, Syracuse, NY, October 2009 the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) • Governor’s Task Force on Recycling, Des Moines, IA, October 2009 SyracuseCoE Project Scientist Aimee Clinkhammer Clean Cities Program, is managing a test-drives a Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle (PHV). • USGBC Caribbean Chapter Conference, Puerto Rico, November 2009

long-term evaluation of the vehicles. YEAR • Greenbuild 2009, Phoenix, AZ, November 2009

The Prius PHV is capable of running on electricity for about 13 miles at speeds up to 62 mph, at • Advanced Energy 2009, Stony Brook, NY, November 2009 which point it operates as a conventional Prius hybrid. • SyracuseCoE Research and Technology Forum (with Professor John Spengler of Harvard Univ ersity), February 2010 A total of 150 PHVs are being delivered to • SyracuseCoE Research and Technology Forum (with John demonstration program partners across the US—600 throughout the world—as part of Bradford of Interface Americas), February 2010 a global program to demonstrate plug-in • SUNY ESF Green Building Conference, Syracuse, NY, March 2010 hybrid technology, educate and inform the • Syracuse Chamber of Commerce Show, Syracuse, NY, March 2010 public about the cars and capture • Symposium on Energy in the 21st Century, Cazenovia, NY, April 2010 real-world driving data. Clean Communities of CNY will be gathering Prius PHV driving • AccelerateCNY, Liverpool, NY, May 2010 data for 12 to 24 months. Each participant • Blue Rain ECOfest, Syracuse, NY, July 2010 group will have two vehicles that will be • New York High Tech Innovation Showcase, Washington,

rotated for use every two months. Water Resources DC, August 2010

As it becomes available, data from the US • New York State Fair (with the Creative Core Green Team), demonstration programs will be posted on Syracuse, NY, August 2010 SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University & and SyracuseCoE are taking part in a demonstration www.toyota.com/esq. • Park(ing) Day 2010, Syracuse, NY, September 2010 of Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles. Clean Renewable Energy • SyracuseCoE Symposium 2010, Syracuse, NY, September 2010 In Syracuse, this program will be able to take advantage of electric vehicle charging stations that are being installed by CuseCar as a part of a DOE/ARRA Economic Stimulus Award, managed by the local Clean Cities Coalition. CuseCar is deploying 75 charging stations throughout Onondaga County. Indoor Environmental Quality

Annual Progress Report 2010 17 SYRACUSECOE PARTICIPATES NGBC Building in Nature’s Image IN US DOE’S BUILDERS EFC LAUNCHES CHALLENGE GREENPROJECTEXCHANGE.ORG

US homebuilders of all sizes, from all areas of the country, report growing buyer interest in energy-effi cient houses. Yet In September 2010, the Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University (EFC) launched GreenProjectExchange.org they also fi nd that many homebuyers want help in making (GPE), a place where communities can share innovative, informed decisions. How can homebuyers tell exceptional environmentally focused projects that support healthy energy performers from average energy performers or communities in New York State. GPE’s purpose is to provide

REVIEW up-to-code homes? How do they fi gure out just what that an outlet for sharing ideas and resources to facilitate a collective difference will mean in their energy bills? effort toward sustainability.

GreenProjectExchange.org features case studies on a variety of IN Spearheaded by the US Department of Energy (US DOE), the environmental topics, such as water quality, waste management, Builders Challenge is a voluntary effort to provide answers. and energy effi ciency that offer useful information such as project Through the Builders Challenge, participating homebuilders funding, challenges, and community engagement processes. will have an easy way to differentiate their best energy Users also have access to reports, budget summaries, photos, and other supporting fi les. performing homes from other products in the marketplace, and to make the benefi ts clear to buyers. YEAR

113 Woodland Ave., Syracuse, is a Builders US DOE’s ultimate vision is that, by 2030, a consumer will Challenge home completed in spring 2010 by have the opportunity to buy an energy-effi cient home anywhere Home HeadQuarters. The project team included in the US—ultimately, a grid-connected home that, over the SyracuseCoE Patron CDH Energy and Charter Member Northeast Green Building Consulting. course of a year, produces as much energy as it uses. More Cost-effective energy-effi cient measures included information can be found at syracusecoe.org. superior insulation, a 95% effi ciency gas heater, and a 0.65EF water heater. The home’s thermal load is approximately one-third that of a similarly designed “base” house.

SYRACUSECOE HOSTS ROUNDTABLE WITH MAJORA CARTER

In September 2010, environmentalist and green jobs guru Majora Carter (at left, with Ed Bogucz, SyracuseCoE Executive Director) gave a lecture entitled “Green the Ghetto and How it Won’t Cost Us” at Hendricks Chapel on the campus of SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner Syracuse University. Carter spoke about the growing green economic sector and green-collar jobs and their One of the fi rst GreenProjectExchange.org projects: potential positive effect on poverty in the US. Earlier in the Lindenhurst Memorial Library’s green the day, Carter toured the SyracuseCoE HQ and met for a infrastructure parking lot in Lindenhurst, NY. working lunch with representatives of community groups and initiatives working on the green revitalization of the city, such as the Near Westside Initiative.

18 Syracuse Center of Excellence SYRACUSECOE SYMPOSIUM 2010

More than 300 attended the 10th Annual SyracuseCoE Symposium 2010 in September, where industry, university, and community experts addressed topics relating to the symposium’s theme of “Restoring Sustainable, Healthy Communities.” REVIEW Tracks explored energy-effi cient buildings research, water resources and energy-effi ciency initiatives happening in communities, municipal energy-effi ciency

incentives and implementation, the US DOE Builders IN Challenge, the Creative Core Green Business Certifi cation Program, ecological performance standards for buildings, and more.

One highlight of the event was a plenary talk by urban critic Roberta Brandes Gratz, who addressed Students from regional colleges and universities at the

Syracuse’s many sustainability initiatives. Said Gratz, SyracuseCoE Symposium. YEAR “Here in Syracuse, you are demonstrating that you Kate Gordon, Vice President for Energy don’t have to leave this city to live in a better one.” Policy at the Center for American Progress, discuss how the US can create jobs through investments in a clean energy economy.

Jared Snyder, Assistant Commissioner for Air Resources, Climate Change, and Energy, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Hugh Henderson, President of SyracuseCoE Patron CDH Energy SyracuseCoE Platinum Partner SUNY delivers a plenary talk on New York State’s Climate Corporation, presents on energy-effi cient buildings. ESF President, Neil Murphy, discusses a Action Plan, an initiative to dramatically reduce proposed Center for the Advancement of greenhouse gas pollution while building New Sustainable Membrane Technologies. York’s clean-energy economy.

Annual Progress Report 2010 19 CHARACTERIZING NON-POINT SALT CONTAMINATION TO STREAMS AND GROUNDWATER

While not particularly thought of as a health hazard, high levels of salt are County, NY, about 20% of the private wells show salt contamination at being found in streams and groundwater—affecting our watershed and levels that would advise caution for people on severely salt-limited diets. therefore our overall water quality. Through SyracuseCoE-funded research Since large areas of New York rely on individual water wells, it presents a conducted in Fishkill Creek in Dutchess County, NY, Stuart Findlay of the problem once the groundwater is contaminated. It may take a long time Cary Institute of Ecosystem studies, along with Don Siegel and Li Jin to see rising salt levels in groundwater and it will also take a long time for

FOCUS of Syracuse University, found that the major culprits are road salt levels to decline, even if salt applications are reduced. (contributing to more than 80% of the issue), water softeners (5-10%) and wastewater treatment plants (about 1%). Through a new model, researchers found that by reducing salt In October 2009 the Cary Institute of Ecosystem application in half, the concentration decreased by only 20.7%, while Studies and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Dutchess County held a management-based forum While it’s easy to assume that streams and groundwater are more doubling it increased concentration by 34.2%. The model suggests a lag in about the impact that road salt has on natural areas, contaminated with salt in the winter months when there is a large delivery of the salt, so the road salt applied now will more than likely show drinking water supplies, and health conditions. amount of road salt application, the opposite can be equally true. High up in the future. These results provide an educational model that help us concentrations of salt have been found in the summer months—painting manage expectations of what is down the line for our watershed if we “Salt pollution of our environment is an increasingly important issue,” a clear picture that something is holding onto the chloride, making it last don’t act to mitigate salt levels in the water. Next, there is a need to fi nd Findlay tells us “but the bright side to the problem is that it can engage through the summer and perhaps affecting animals in the streams during modifi cations to road salt, different ways to apply salt so it remains only on citizens and local offi cials to be more aware of apparently benign materials

PROJECT their breeding season and their young in early growth stages. In Dutchess the road and/or begin to reduce the application rate. we spread into the environment that can come back to trouble us.”

Characterization of the Ambient Air Quality in Syracuse, NY, and Identifi cation of Its Origins

How is the outdoor air quality in Syracuse, New York? A team of researchers led by Philip Hopke, Bayard D. real-time traffi c volume, speed and size classes. That depends on a number of factors. Is it a hot humid Clarkson Distinguished Professor and Director of the A graphical user interface is also being used to day in July or a cold clear one in January? Maybe it is Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science process the traffi c data. Now that the SyracuseCoE early Sunday morning, or afternoon rush hour with (CARES) at Clarkson University, collected data at two headquarters construction has been completed, major construction on the interstate highway. towers—one at Upper Onondaga Lake Park and the most of the data has been collected and the team other near the SyracuseCoE headquarters in downtown is fi nalizing the analysis of the information. Pollution in the atmosphere can induce a wide variety Syracuse. Myron Mitchell, Professor and Director of the

Demonstration of adverse effects including: increased mortality and Council on Hydrologic Systems Science, Department of “We are analyzing the wealth of collected data to

Research morbidity in the public, deterioration of buildings and Environmental and Forest Biology at SUNY College of determine the impacts of the interstate highways on arrow= monuments, acidifi cation of lakes and rivers, and Environmental Science and Forestry, also contributed local air quality. These results should help inform local arrow= forest and crop damage. Although the US has his expertise, maintaining the collection towers and offi cials as they make choices regarding the future for Orange

Blue substantially improved air quality over the past 30 providing modeling data. I-81,” says Hopke. years, there are still a number of problems that are attributed to air pollution. Studies from around the country have established that Using their model based on actual information about vehicles play a major role in a community’s air quality. Syracuse, the researchers intend to develop other By modeling the evolution of traffi c emissions in a The Clarkson researchers suspect that the two major models that can predict future pollutant concentrations

Outreach similar fashion to that done for freeways in Los highways that cross Syracuse—I-81 and I-690—have using easily collected traffi c data. With this kind of Angeles, Max Zhang, Assistant Professor of a defi nite impact on the city’s surrounding air. These information, controlling and improving the quality of arrow=

Commercialization Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell two highways, adjacent to the SyracuseCoE the air we breathe every day becomes a possibility.

Yellow The Urban Observatory Tower at the SyracuseCoE University, developed models that relate automated headquarters site, are being monitored with two arrow= HQ, seen from the HQ building’s green roof. traffi c data and weather-related measurements to Autoscope traffi c cameras mounted on the top of Green

predict pollutant concentrations. the Urban Ecosystem Observatory tower, providing

20 Syracuse Center of Excellence BIOSENSORS WITH LOW CROSS- ULTRAFINE PARTICLES AND CARDIAC REACTIVITY FOR WATERBORNE RESPONSES: EVALUATION IN A CONTAMINANTS CARDIAC REHABILITATION CENTER

Dr. Philip Borer, CEO of AptaMatrix, Inc. and switch to provide a biosensor that can detect the chemistry professor at Syracuse University (SU), target. Because of its selectivity and sensitivity, Epidemiologists study the factors that affect has conducted research to develop a new method other non-harmful or benefi cial microorganisms in the health and illness of populations. These to identify nucleic acid sequences—short strands the water will not react to the AlloSwitch™. of DNA or RNA—attracted to microorganisms. doctors and scientists know from years of Borer calls this Direct Sequence Analysis, or the Building off his success in capturing aptamers research that particulate matter air pollution DSA Method. Using this new method, Borer’s team using the DSA method, Borer’s new project aims causes people to suffer from some forms can quickly fi nd the DNA/RNA strands, called to discover dozens of high-affi nity sequences for of heart disease which, for some, can have “aptamers,” that recognize and bind to chlorine- each target. Those having the lowest off-target fatal consequences. resistant waterborne microorganisms—such as effects will be chosen for commercial biosensors Cryptosporidium and Giardia—which cause that are specifi c for Cryptosporidium or Giardia But what is causing this? The term “particulate matter” (PM) describes a wide range debilitating illnesses that can be fatal for infants, and that do not react with other common senior citizens, or immune-compromised individuals. components of public water supplies. of particles, and what isn’t clear is the direct effect of specifi c particulate matter components. Determining exactly what role each different component found in PM The short nucleic acid strands are identifi ed “We are especially grateful to SyracuseCoE, pollution—organics, metals, ultrafi nes, etc.—plays in our everyday cardiovascular using next-generation technologies that are NYSTAR, and the SU CASE Center for critical health is what Mark J. Utell, with the help of the University of Rochester, is measuring. coming into wide use for determining subtle early support for our work,” says Borer. “The Researchers suspect ultrafi ne particles, the very smallest of these particles at less than differences between the DNA genomes of techniques developed in this SyracuseCoE- 100 nanometers in diameter, play a signifi cant role in causing ill health. different people. “We are delighted to have two funded research project have laid the groundwork of these next-gen instruments—the fi rst in for what should become the primary method by Syracuse—at AptaMatrix,” says Borer. “The which thousands of biosensor targets—proteins, A team of varied experts was put together to participate in this project, including: company can sequence nearly a billion DNA microorganisms, toxins, etc.—are detected.” epidemiologists, who study factors of health and illness in populations; environmental fragments per week, which is important because Borer and his team submitted patent applications health scientists, who study relationships between health and the environment; fi nding aptamers is like searching for a needle in March of 2009 and 2010 for aptamer discovery, cardiologists, who deal with heart and blood vessel illness and health; analytical in a haystack.” he said. In addition to aptamer and have been awarded three patents on the chemists, who study chemical composition of natural and artifi cial materials, primarily ™ discovery, AptaMatrix does sequencing for AlloSwitch technology, owned by SU and at the molecular level; and biostatisticians, who use math to analyze, understand, and academic and industrial researchers. licensed to AptaMatrix. interpret data to establish relationships between factors.

An AlloSwitch™ turns ON when the target binds the aptamer probe. The research team’s observational study incorporates several research elements. The data collection of the current project tests patients at a cardiac rehabilitation center who are

AptMatrix and recovering from serious heart attacks. The team records sensitive heart electrophysiological Water Resources Probe F OFF SU scientists Cover Q measurements—the electrical signals emitted by biological cells and tissues—during rehab Toggle engineered the exercise and collects blood samples. Similar cardiovascular endpoints have been examined TargetTarget aptamers that bind

in other subgroup populations in Rochester, NY, allowing the researchers to compare data..

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target organism Clean Renewable Energy Q C Target F ON into a “molecular Information from this study offers a better assessment of adverse health effects from T switch.” Thus the inhalation of common pollutants. Considering this direct relationship along with

outcome of this environmental conditions and populations becomes a basis for understanding more research—a DNA/RNA molecule that changes general health risks. This data can and hopefully will be helpful in creating public policy its shape on binding with the target—has been Real-time water contaminant analysis that addresses ultrafi ne particles, large particulate matter, and air quality in general.

dubbed the AlloSwitch™. The shape change is equipment by collaborator OrthoSystems. Indoor Environmental Quality coupled to a change in light output from the

Annual Progress Report 2010 21 Integrated Energy Recovery Ventilation For adults and children suffering from asthma and other The researchers collected information to compare using upper respiratory illnesses, clean air can mean relief the unit against not using the unit. Forced Expiratory and Air Purifi cation System (HEPAiRx) and feeling better. However, in recent years, energy Volume and exhaled breath samples were collected from effi ciency requirements have resulted in tighter building the individuals with standard breath sampling equipment. construction and renovation. While this has helped The results indicated reduction in lung infl ammation in conserve energy, a resulting decline in indoor air the subjects using the HEPAiRx®. Air samples were quality may be a cause for the increase in asthma and measured showing substantial reductions in the particulate upper respiratory illnesses. North Syracuse, NY, company and gaseous contaminant levels. Questionnaires were Air Innovations, a SyracuseCoE Silver Partner, believes used to evaluate changes in quality of life such as the this situation can be corrected. use of medication, sleeplessness and sick days. Subjects generally reported better sleep and a reduction Previous funding from the New York State Energy in medication. Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) allowed Air Innovations to design and develop an air These two separate studies determined that the unit purifi cation system that brings more fresh air into a room signifi cantly improved the IAQ and reduced asthma without high energy consequences. symptoms. Participants were given the option of keeping their units or receiving a cash payment for participation. The result is an integrated, packaged, portable air Most reported improved quality of life for their children, conditioner that heats and cools the room, brings in fresh with 95% opting to keep the latest model of HEPAiRx® air, fi lters out pollutants, and creates a positive pressure in the second study. Further studies will be conducted in in the space to keep airborne pollutants from other winter 2010 to determine the medical intervention cost spaces, such as microorganisms and allergens, from savings of the HEPAiRx®. Air Innovations’ HEPAiRx® energy recovery and air purifi cation entering the room. The system is designed to take over system fi ts into standard windows for home applications. complete environmental control of a room, such as a “We are fortunate to have won multiple, competitively bedroom, and reduce airborne particles and gaseous awarded matching grants from SyracuseCoE, contaminants. By doing so, the bedroom can be isolated NYSERDA, CenterState CEO and NYSTAR to pursue from the rest of the house. our dream of helping people, especially children, get some relief from their asthma by using clean and green With funding from SyracuseCoE, Air Innovations was able technologies of fresh air for ventilation and high-effi ciency to test the Integrated Energy Recovery Ventilator, also particulate air fi ltration,” says Larry Wetzel, PE, Chairman called a Ventilating Room Air Purifi er and trademarked of the Board, Air Innovations, Inc. HEPAiRx®. Working with Clarkson University, two separate studies to evaluate the air quality and health of asthmatic In December 2009, Air Innovations was named the 9th children were designed and implemented. In the fi rst, fastest growing small business in Central Upstate New 45 units were placed in participants’ bedrooms for an York. In August 2010, the company was named to Inc. 18-week period. In the second, 20 units were installed magazine’s list of America’s 5,000 Fastest Growing and evaluated over a 14-week period. Privately Held Companies. HEPAiR® has recently received a U.S. patent and is now available for sale via its website The studies monitored air quality along with the health www.hepairx.com. of the rooms’ occupants under different situations.

22 Syracuse Center of Excellence This research has shown the importance AN INTELLIGENT URBAN of utilizing innovative technology to manage and monitor complex aquatic ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM (I-UES) ecosystems in urban settings. Oftentimes, programs for treating water FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK systems are implemented without robust data to identify the true source of the WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT problem. The value of this case study comes from the large number of cause- and-effect relationships that were clearly identifi ed through the monitoring system.

Steven Effl er, Director of Research at system. As a result, multiple approaches the Upstate Freshwater Institute, and will be needed to improve the oxygen Charles Driscoll, University Professor of status of the river.” Environmental Systems Engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and To assess the water quality of such large Computer Science at Syracuse University, river systems, the study conducted eight recently presented the results of this longitudinal surveys—four in summer Syracuse Center of Excellence 2007 and four in summer 2009— Collaborative Activities in Research and collecting data from more than 50 sites, Technology Innovation (CARTI) water utilizing special instrumentation that research project—“An Intelligent Urban measures temperature, conductance Environmental System (i-UES) for Central (the capacity to conduct electricity), New York Water Resource Management”— turbidity (muddiness of water due to to SyracuseCoE’s Scientifi c Advisory stirred up sediment), chlorophyll levels Committee. SyracuseCoE awards CARTI and dissolved oxygen. The “boundary projects using funds from the U.S. conditions” that show the baseline Environmental Protection Agency. Co- measurements were collected by solar- authors of the study are Anthony R. powered robotic monitoring platforms at Prestigiacomo and Adam J.P. Effl er of the outfl ows of each lake. the Upstate Freshwater Institute. With much conclusive evidence pointing While much attention has been given to the oxygen depletion in the Three to the impact of rivers on lake water Rivers system, the research team quality, there had previously been little recommends long-term, routine done to track the effects of lake outfl ows monitoring of the system, utilizing on receiving rivers. The water quality of robotic systems. The researchers these rivers is of great concern in order suggest that simply improving processes to protect their multiple uses—recreation, at individual wastewater treatment plants will not be enough to impact the system, A robotic water monitoring unit being deployed on Otisco Lake, Otisco, NY. navigation, power generation and waste discharge—and to support regional and the team must continue to defi ne development. Currently, the ability of the dynamics and provide insights for water systems to absorb the waste sent rehabilitation. A water quality model A unique three-year longitudinal and vertical study of Central New York’s Three Rivers system— into them is signifi cantly reduced. can then guide management decisions involving the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca rivers—has revealed that oxygen resources have for a recovery process. become degraded by several stressors, including the impact of wastewater treatment plants, “This study illustrates some of the nonpoint runoff, an increase in invasive zebra mussels and channelization of the fl ow. As oxygen complexities and challenges in These fi ndings have had extensive media is necessary to support life in aquatic ecosystems, its measurement is essential for gauging the managing urban water systems,” says coverage, including The Syracuse Post- overall state of water bodies; in one of the study’s surveys, more than one-third of the 90- Driscoll. “There are multiple factors Standard, Science Newsline, Science kilometer length of the river system failed to meet the New York water quality standard. associated with the low oxygen Daily, Red Orbit, and Terra Daily. concentrations in the Three Rivers

Annual Progress Report 2010 23 COMMERCIALIZING “Q” AIR TERMINALS: ADDRESSING CHALLENGES OF INDOOR AIR QUALITY, ENERGY COSTS, Bridging the Temporal Mismatch AND HEALTH RISKS between Remotely Sensed Land Use Changes and Field-Based Water Quality/Quantity Observations

As urban development continues to traditional hydrologic modeling methods expand outward, cities and suburbs are are limiting because they capture total Keeping the air in an offi ce, dormitory, losing permeable surfaces to sidewalks, impervious surface cover but ignore its laboratory or school at a comfortable roads, and parking lots. By taking natural spatial distribution. Also, hydrologists are hydrology out of the equation, we are not aware of possible limitations in the temperature and free of germs and faced with negative impacts on water image analysis algorithms that provide the odors requires lots of energy. NuClimate quality from stormwater runoff. impervious maps. Air Quality Systems has designed equipment to address both indoor air Runoff moves swiftly over impervious With funding support from SyracuseCoE, quality and energy concerns. The surfaces, picking up dirt and contaminants a team of researchers at the SUNY College product, consisting of induction units/ as it fl ows to the nearest water body. of Environmental Science and Forestry has chilled beams, is called the “Q” Air Runoff also puts pressure on sewer lines, developed enhanced image processing which can breach capacity during storms, technology capable of accurately Terminal. “Q” stands for “Quality.” releasing a mixture of raw sewage and detecting impervious surfaces, while runoff directly into a nearby waterway simultaneously providing an accuracy Air terminals are the units that take air in and put it back out into a room. The NuClimate system, located in the before reaching a plant for treatment— metric for every detected pixel. The ceiling, works by taking a source of primary, or fresh air, and mixing it with the inside air. Fresh air comes through known as combined sewer overfl ows. technology is revolutionary, as it bridges nozzles at a high rate of speed into a mixing chamber. The resulting induced room air fl ows over a coil that is set to a signifi cant scientifi c gap between maintain a comfortable temperature by the room thermostat. The heated or cooled air then streams down into the Recently, researchers have been image analysts and hydrologic modelers. incorporating remotely sensed satellite Dr. Giorgos Mountrakis, an Assistant room by a design that uses the coanda effect, the same principle of air fl ow that makes an airplane lift off the ground imagery to detect impervious surface Professor in the Environmental Resources or a sailboat move forward on the water. cover in a given area. The resulting maps Engineering Department of SUNY ESF help hydrologists link water quality to and the Principal Investigator in this grant, A “Q” Air Terminal moves air at a slower pace than more common forced-air systems, reducing the distribution trends in development and nonpoint notes: “The funding from SyracuseCoE of dirt and germs. And because the system operates on air fl ow principles, there are no electric motors or fans source water pollution (runoff). However, was critical in allowing researchers with using energy, making noise, or needing repair and maintenance. NuClimate’s system requires duct work that is diverse backgrounds to come together one-third the size of traditional air heating and cooling systems. This smaller size also reduces the architectural and tackle the elimination of typical disciplinary barriers through a collaborative impact in building construction. and highly integrated approach. It was a group effort, that none of us could have Demonstration With access to research and lab facilities for testing and development at SyracuseCoE, as well as valuable undertaken in isolation, with some Research networking benefi ts for publicity, NuClimate has been able to grow at exponential speeds. They continue to

arrow= impressive results.”

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This enhanced processing technology Blue John DiMillo, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at NuClimate, credits much of the product’s success to is coupled with an integrated modeling framework that incorporates socio- SyracuseCoE. “The Syracuse Center of Excellence kind of took us under its wing,” DiMillo says. “They’ve done tons economic, land use and environmental of work for us. In 2010, SyracuseCoE successfully assisted NuClimate in its pursuit of the New York City School monitoring data. These inputs can be renovations, which begin in 2011.” plugged into the model and used to project future trends on a more Outreach Recently, NuClimate developed a more advanced model for individual residences, cementing a relationship with Titus frequent basis.

arrow= Corporation (a $5 billion corporation specializing in HVAC products) and the US Military. By June of 2010, NuClimate Commercialization Moving forward, the model will be

Yellow had shipped more than 2,500 units. The company is also in the process of developing a unit specifi cally for the A satellite image of the Onondaga Lake translated into software and distributed arrow= hospital market. watershed mapping impervious surfaces, to communities to help them make Green

such as blacktop. smarter land-use decisions in the future.

24 Syracuse Center of Excellence INTEGRATED COMPUTER SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN OF VERY-LOW ENERGY AND HIGH-IEQ BUILDINGS

The US Department of Energy (US DOE) has According to the US DOE, the nation’s 114 million announced a $560,296 grant to a Syracuse households and more than 74 million square feet of University (SU)-led project to develop a virtual design commercial fl oor space account for about 40 percent studio to help building designers evaluate of the country’s primary energy consumption, as well architectural and mechanical options in order to as 39 percent of carbon dioxide, 18 percent of nitrogen maximize the energy savings of residential and oxides and 55 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions. commercial buildings while ensuring healthy, comfortable and productive indoor environments. In addition to helping the nation achieve energy independence by reducing its reliance on fossil fuels The Virtual Design Studio project is led by Jensen to heat and cool aging and ineffi cient buildings, the Syracuse University Professor Jensen Zhang in the Building Zhang, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Virtual Design Studio project is expected to help Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory (BEES Lab), Computer Science, and Michael Pelken, SU School create high-value jobs in both the supply and which he directs. of Architecture. The project is being developed demand sides of the energy-effi cient building market. in collaboration with Syracuse-based fi rm and Therefore, the project will directly support of the SyracuseCoE building Patron and tenant CDH Energy, country’s economic recovery and development effort. the Florida Solar Energy Center and SyracuseCoE, which provided matching funds. This project adds a In total, the US DOE has awarded more than $76 new capability to SyracuseCoE’s extensive portfolio million for 58 advanced energy-effi cient building of research and demonstration assets and projects technologies and commercial building training that are advancing energy-effi cient building products programs throughout the United States. The Virtual and services. Design Studio project was one of fi ve projects awarded a grant under the rubric of “Analysis, Design “The Virtual Design Studio will integrate a suite of and Technical Tools,” which focuses on improving the performance simulation models, a virtual building simulation of complex interactions between building database and a knowledge base of architectural elements, including climate, building envelope heat design principles to achieve fully coordinated, and moisture transfer, internal heat gains, lighting

integrated and optimized building design,” says power, HVAC equipment, controls, thermal and Water Resources Zhang, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace visual comfort, and energy costs. Engineering. “Buildings designed and constructed using a performance-based energy and IEQ design “These projects will help the US lead the world in

process that optimizes the interaction between the advancing energy-effi cient technologies,” says US & building envelope and a building’s HVAC systems Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “Energy-effi cient Clean Renewable Energy can save between 30 percent and 75 percent of commercial buildings will help our country cut its energy costs while providing better indoor carbon emissions and energy costs while the training environmental quality.” programs will upgrade the skills of the current The virtual design studio will continue to explore innovations workforce and attract the next generation to careers in building envelopes and energy-effi cient building design as

in the emerging clean energy economy.” currently studied in the BEES lab. Indoor Environmental Quality

Annual Progress Report 2010 25 LIFE DOWN UNDER: THE FORGOTTEN HYPORHEIC ZONE IN STREAM RESTORATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOINDICATOR OF SUBSURFACE RECOVERY

Billions of dollars are spent every year on stream restoration at Syracuse University to study Ninemile Creek in Marcellus, NY, projects aimed at restoring the hydraulic and ecological diversity an ideal fi eld “laboratory” to examine the effects of restoration of natural stream systems. Usually restoration goals are focused structures on subsurface invertebrates. on bank erosion and improving fi sh habitat. But, what effects are

FOCUS there on the subsurface environment? Streams are not simply The team of researchers at Ninemile Creek found that cross vane surface fl ow over a stream bed, but include complex interactions structures, or carefully placed V-shaped rock structures built with and within the stream bed. What effects do these man-made across the channel to funnel fl ow toward the center and away rock structures have on biological communities within the bed from eroding stream banks, do appear to affect the nature of the itself? Do they restore the habitat and biological diversity like we environment in a positive way. By mimicking natural riffl e pool fl ow hope they do? patterns with carefully placed rock structures, fl ow patterns in and out of the bed, and associated hyporheic habitats do appear to be These engineered stream restoration structures may induce more diverse. Invertebrate communities may be more diverse and hyporheic exchange—the mixing of surface and groundwater healthy as well. fl ows—within the stream bed. No one has ever studied the

PROJECT effects of these structures on the living world within the stream A better understanding of stream restoration effects on the Two SUNY ESF students with a Bou-Rouch pump, used to bed (an entire and complex fauna of invertebrates lives down hyporheic zone allows us to guide future stream restoration efforts detect invertebrates beneath a streambed. there). Kathleen McGrath and her team at SUNY College of to restore not just the surface environment of a healthy stream, Environmental Science and Forestry partnered with Laura Lautz but also the subsurface environment as well.

With funding from SyracuseCoE, Antek has produced a prototype solar cell that demonstrates the reduced Development of a Photovoltaic Cell Utilizing production costs, and has also proven the thin fi lm layer to be durable and resistant to environmental impact. The company is currently exploring a path to market and was recently accepted into Syracuse’s Clean Tech Center. a Proprietary Manufacturing Process Antek also recognized the importance of “think global, buy local.” By partnering not only with local distributors, but also with local module manufacturers, Antek envisions that they will be able to create a packaged solar PV product comprised entirely of technologies developed in New York State—creating high-value technical jobs in For more than 30 years, solar photovoltaics (PV) technology has tried to feasibly compete with coal-fi red power the region. “The Center of Excellence was the spark at the inception of the solar cell project, having supported generation as a source of grid tied electricity—with limited success. However, with continued advancements the research and development stage, and now assisting with its commercialization,” says Terrinoni. “In all aspects in technology and the rising price of fossil fuel-powered energy, a path to grid parity for solar PV exists. Some of the product life cycle, the CoE has analysts argue that 100% of our current energy demands could be met with a mere 1% of our land area blanketed been a model partner and has showed with solar cells. For these reasons, grid-connected solar PV represented the fastest growing energy technology its commitment to fostering positive on the world market through 2009. The question is—how do we reduce the cost of producing solar PV while economic change in the local area.” increasing production throughput? Syracuse University partner Antek is working to solve this dilemma. In February 2010, work began on In January of 2008, Anthony Terrinoni of Antek was connected by the Syracuse Center of Excellence with SU increasing solar cell performance and the Professor Eric Schiff concerning an opportunity to collaborate on research into a novel method of solar cell development of a business plan/investor fabrication. In the standard process, thin wafers of silicon and phosphorous are heated in large ovens and presentation. An intern from the Johnson exposed to boron gas. Through extensive research, the team has discovered a process that involves “spritzing” School, Benjamin Barrington, brought the wafers with a proprietary mixture of chemicals—which could reduce production costs by 10 to 20%. Antek’s in-depth knowledge of the solar industry, proprietary manufacturing process not only reduces overall cost of production, but also minimizes carbon allowing for the rapid completion of emissions associated with the process and results in an increase in open-circuit voltage compared to current both. As of September 2010, Antek is solar PV cells on the market. attempting to raise capital for a demonstration solar panel. Testing Antek’s proprietary photovoltaic cells.

26 Syracuse Center of Excellence IMPACT OF CARBON DIOXIDE ON HUMAN DECISION-MAKING AND PRODUCTIVITY

Is it possible that decision-making and productivity can be infl uenced by outside chemical imbalances? In order to understand the possible effect indoor air quality (IAQ) has on human performance and productivity, Dr. Usha Satish from SUNY Upstate Medical University is conducting an in-depth analysis on what links exist between CO2 levels, people’s health symptoms and perceived IAQ. More specifi cally, her investigation focuses on how CO2 levels impact the decision-making process of workers and their overall productivity rate as well as how it changes based on their perceptions of IAQ.

The research team, funded by SyracuseCoE, successfully compiled pivotal raw data based on strategic simulations and manipulations within the model work environment. Participants were evaluated through strategic management simulations (SMS) studies of various complexity and different client populations, across three CO2 conditions. By retaining a constant within the simulation environment, researchers scored the participant data solely on how the individual performed tasks and processed the provided information. Studying the IAQ in conjunction with perceived air quality (PAQ), and in relation to health and human performance, sheds light on the effects of indoor environmental qualities.

Dr. Usha Satish’s research studied the implications of direct impacts of levels of CO2 on people’s

Most people spend 40 hours a week, if not more, in the workplace. For decision-making capabilities. Certain areas of decision-making were impacted under high CO2 many, that is a large amount of time spent in a work setting without fresh concentrations: planning, stretegy, breadth of approach, and emergency responsiveness. air. Reducing building ventilation requirements in order to save energy can have lasting effects on our bodies. “The study results are important to indoor air sciences and very relevant to human functionality. We found the performance of participants was marginal to dysfunctional with higher exposures of CO2, at concentration levels typically found in some buildings,” Satish describes. This research will lead to a better understanding of how varying levels of CO2 affect worker productivity, which in turn has the potential to make a signifi cant impact on the development of future indoor ventilation requirements and design.

Everyone benefi ts when brains function with the right amount of oxygen— people feel healthy, perform well, and can be productive at work.

Annual Progress Report 2010 27 Distributed Demand- Open Web Services-Based Indoor Controlled Ventilation for Climate Control System Improving Indoor Air Quality

Says Project Investigator Dr. Marek The interest in controlling Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) stems accumulate in the building during unoccupied periods, Podgorny, “I am very grateful to the

from the desire to create and maintain healthy and when the CO2 levels are expected to be low, prompting Syracuse Center of Excellence for fi nancial safe work environments for the many people around the DCV to shut off or drastically reduce the supply and intellectual support for the project. the world who work in offi ce buildings. This means of fresh air. Some of them cannot be eliminated from Technically, we wanted to demonstrate that being able to immediately detect the presence of the offi ce environment, so controlling them becomes open-source software technologies can be pollutants and contaminants, alert those in charge, important. used to implement all elements of a control and mitigate the problem or reduce the impact on the system, including internal system indoor environment. Researchers at Syracuse University are taking DCV one step further by investigating distributed demand- communications. This approach allowed The Syracuse Center of Excellence headquarters controlled ventilation (DDCV). In this project, investigators us to lower costs of the system so that the includes a Total Indoor Environmental Quality (TIEQ) are testing methods that rely on a network of distributed product becomes affordable to small laboratory for research in this area. But the new sensors and environmental control systems to adjust businesses and suitable for residential building also serves as an example of the latest the supply of fresh air for each occupant based on local buildings. It creates a new market niche that technology in IAQ and “intelligent built environmental conditions. This approach ensures that each occupant The CollabWorx/SenSyr Open Web we expect to fi ll while creating green jobs in Services-Based Indoor Climate Control systems.” An intelligent system is designed and built will receive the correct amount of fresh air indicated Upstate New York, with signifi cant energy System has been installed at the to monitor the environment, perceive changes in by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and savings as an important bonus.” conditions, and make automatic adjustments to the Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) at reduced energy SyracuseCoE headquarters. indoor environment to achieve optimal performance. consumption. The DDCV approach will also address such important considerations as occupancy, activity, fl oor How often have you sat at your desk—at Current HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) area, passive emissions and ventilation effi ciency in work, in school, at a computer lab—and technology exists for demand-controlled ventilation individual occupied spaces. To this end, a mathematical felt uncomfortable with your indoor (DCV). This regulates the amount of fresh air brought into model and experimental methods have been developed environment? Is air too warm and stuffy, a building based on the carbon dioxide (CO ) generated to evaluate practical design and control methods, and 2 or too cold to concentrate? Even worse, by the occupants’ activities. DCV provides good IAQ and optimize the mechanical equipment for improved IAQ the reason we often feel too hot in the winter is more energy effi cient than older systems. and lower energy consumption. and too cold in the summer is because of However, a recent study by the National Institute of The new system, operating at a higher level of HVAC systems that are wasting energy by Standards and Technology, a federal government intelligence, monitors individual offi ces and cubicles over-conditioning the building. While building technology agency, shows that DCV may result in as well as the interaction of the air throughout larger automation systems (BAS) that deal with Personal Environment system implemented higher levels of unhealthy air pollutants such as the offi ce spaces. Regulation of fresh air control and these problems have existed for a long time, using the CollabWorx green building volatile organic compounds (VOC) that are emitted in contaminant detection is then based on the conditions they currently do not take advantage of the control technology. an offi ce environment from plastics and other synthetic or needs in the individual areas. This distributed Internet technologies that transformed many materials, cleaning chemicals, and copying and other approach to IAQ will achieve maximum comfort, health, other computing domains—and that are Findings of the project have been conclusive; offi ce equipment. These “passive emissions” can and safety for workers throughout a building. user-friendly for offi ce workers, students, the Web-based BAS offers a nontrivial Demonstration and general public alike. technological advantage over current

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Orange collaborative development of Smart Building

Blue known for its signature Web-based real-time collaborative workspaces—has developed a software by academic and industrial smart building control product that reduces consortia and alliances. In addition, the energy costs and increases energy effi ciency, modular design of the system permits improves indoor air quality, increases worker replacement of any of its components by productivity, and creates personalized a proprietary or simply different Outreach climate-control environments—all based on implementation. Presently CollabWorx is working on demonstrating the technology

arrow= the premise that one can build a functional Commercialization prototype of a BAS assembled exclusively at the SyracuseCoE headquarters building, Yellow and continuing to make it a commercially-

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28 Syracuse Center of Excellence CDH ENERGY TO MONITOR GREEN HOMES

SyracuseCoE Patron CDH Energy has partnered with SyracuseCoE to install monitors in all three of the innovative green homes built as part of the Near Westside Initiative. These homes are the result of the “From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes” competition, built in collaboration with the Near Westside Initiative, Syracuse University School of Architecture, Home HeadQuarters and SyracuseCoE, which fosters advanced thinking about design, sustainability, and cost-effective building practices for the single-family home.

These innovative homes provide a new vision for one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods and demonstrate the value of design within a disinvested and demographically diverse community. These small domestic projects wed high standards of living with advanced technology and design to encourage revitalization of the Near Westside and similar neighborhoods across the country.

At the Live/Work/Home (317 Marcellus St., Syracuse), for instance, CDH Energy attached The energy-effi cient Live/Work/Home at 317 Marcellus St., Syracuse, temperature and air fl ow sensors to the heat recovery ventilator. In the basement, they installed designed by Cook + Fox Architects. The home’s owners moved in October a dedicated gas meter, as well as sensors on the mini-boiler, the hot-water heater, and the under- 2010, with owners moving into the other two innovative green homes (at 619 and 621 Otisco St., below) within a few months. fl oor radiant heating circuits. Data will be collected every 15 minutes and fed into an Internet database for analysis.

The monitors will collect data for a total of three years to document energy consumption. SyracuseCoE will fund the monitoring project with part of a federal appropriation it received in Water Resources December 2009 through US Rep. Dan Maffei (NY-25).

& Clean Renewable Energy

Indoor Environmental Quality

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Partners StartUp: Brookhaven National Laboratory Protection Alliance Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper Platinum: AERFIL, LLC Finger Lakes Institute Business and Institutional Furniture Florida Solar Energy Center Carrier Corporation ASI Renovation Manufacturers Association Fluent Clarkson University Bluepoint Environmental, LLC Cameron Manufacturing & Design FOCUS Greater Syracuse Corning Buffalo BioBlower Technologies Camroden Associates Fortifi ber Building Systems Group Haworth Consulting for Health, Air, Nature and a Greener Environment Carnegie Melon University FXFowle Herman Miller Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Isolation Sciences, Inc. Galson Laboratories National Grid Cayuga County Department of Munly Brown Studio General Electric O’Brien & Gere Planning and Economic Development Gifford Foundation Natural Systems Engineering Otis Cazenovia College Girl Scouts of America Nectar Partners Siemens Centek Laboratories Girls, Inc. Pyrus Energy SUNY College of Environmental Center for American Progress GrassRoots Recycling Network Salt City Technical Science & Forestry CenterState CEO Green CNY Summerhill Biomass Systems Syracuse University Citizens Campaign for the Environment Green Think Tate Widetronix Semiconductors, Inc. City of New York Greening USA City of Syracuse Guptill Farms Gold: City University of New York Haledyne AMOS Project Collaborators Clean Communities of Central New York HAPcontrol, LLC C&S Companies Aalborg University CNY Regional Planning and HeliOptix King + King Architects ACT Bioenergy Development Board Henderson Johnson Company SRC Adirondack North Country Association CNY Technology Development Home Headquarters Silver: Adirondack Park Agency Organization Honeywell International Air Innovations Advanced Energy Research & CNY Works Hope For Us Housing Boylan Marble & Terrazzo Technology Center Colden Corporation Howard University Restoration Ltd. Air Barriers Association of America CollabWorx HSBC Bank USA Air Iso, Inc. Sedgwick Business Interiors Columbia University Huber Engineered Wood Alfred University Con Edison Sensis Corporation Hudson Valley Regional Council Alliance Energy Constellation Energy Hueber Breuer Syracuse City School District Alliance of Communities Transforming Cook + Fox Architects IBM The Open Atelier Syracuse CoolBrands Dairy Infi con Patron: Anchor QEA Cornell Cooperative Extension Institute for Local Self Reliance CabFab Antek Inc. Cornell University Interface Americas, Inc. CDH Energy Corp. Apple Roofi ng Cummins International Society of Indoor Air e2e Materials, LLC Arcadis CuseCar Quality and Climate Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa, CPA, PC Arup Destiny USA Intertek ETL SEMKO GreenHomes America Ashley McGraw Architects Double A Willow Isolation Systems Palmerton Group Atlantic States Legal Foundation Eastern Lake Ontario Regional iWasteNot Systems SUNY Oswego Baltimore Woods Nature Center Innovation Network Johnson Controls SUNY Upstate Medical University BASF Corporation EMC2 Keck Foundation Bernier Carr & Associates Empire State Development Corporation Syracuse Offi ce Environments Kodak Bitzer Scroll Ener G Rotors Taitem Engineering PC Konig Eizenberg Architecture Bond, Schoeneck & King Environmental Finance Center Network Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Utica College Bovis Lend Lease Finger Lakes - Lake Ontario Watershed LeChase Construction Services, LLC

30 Syracuse Center of Excellence MEMBERS

Manufacturers Association of Onondaga Citizens League Syracuse Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Central New York Onondaga County Syracuse Housing Authority CHARTER MEMBERS Matawon Development Group Onondaga County Resource Tenrehte Technologies, Inc. McQuay International Recovery Agency The Clean Tech Center Industry Morrisville State College Onondaga Earth Corps Thermo Electron Corporation Air Innovations National Center for Energy Management Onondaga Environmental Institute Toyota Blasland, Bouck & Lee and Building Technologies Onondaga Nation Triad Technology Carrier Corporation National Energy Management Institute Op-Tech Environmental Services, Inc. Tug Hill Commission C&S Companies National Recycling Coalition Orthogonal, Inc. United Solar Ovonic CDH Energy Corp. National Renewable Energy Laboratory OrthoSystems, Inc United Technologies Research Center Colden Corporation Near Westside Initiative P.E.A.C.E., Inc. University at Albany - SUNY Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa New York Battery & Energy Storage Pace University University at Buffalo - SUNY Galson Laboratories Technology Consortium, Inc. Partnership for New York City University of California, Berkeley HSBC Bank USA New York City Building Construction Pegasus Capital Advisors University of Minnesota King + King Architects and Trades Council Permasteelisa North America Corp University of Rochester Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse & New York City Investment Fund Peterson Engineering Upstate Freshwater Institute Central New York New York Farm Viability Institute Phytofi lter Tech US Department of Agriculture National Grid New York Power Authority Propulsive Wing, LLC US Department of Energy Northeast Natural Homes New York State Department of State Purdue University US Department of Housing & O’Brien & Gere New York University Pyramid Management Group Urban Development Robson & Woese NewWorld Capital Group, LLC Quantitative Environmental Analysis US Department of Labor Rosenthal Companies NIEQRI Queens University US Environmental Finance Sensis Queri Development Advisory Board Northeast Green Building Consulting Syracuse Research Corporation Northeast Natural Homes RCAP Solutions US Environmental Protection Agency US Green Building Council Northeast Recycling Council Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute US General Services Administration NuClimate Air Quality Systems Reuse Alliance US Green Building Council Academic NY Rural Water Association RJ Lee Group US Green Building Council Alfred University NY Water Environment Association RobsonWoese Caribbean Chapter Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies NYS Association for Reduction, Reuse Rudin Management Co., Inc. US Green Building Council New York Clarkson University and Recycling SC Johnson Upstate Chapter Cornell University Siemens Corp. NYS Association of Towns US GreenFiber Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NYS Conference of Mayors and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP Vento Tek, Inc. SUNY College of Environmental Elected Offi cials Source Sentinel Vette Corp. Science and Forestry NYS Department of Environmental Southern Tier East Regional Planning WCNY SUNY Upstate Medical University Conservation and Development Board Welch Allyn Syracuse University NYS Department of Health Southern Tier West Regional Planning Wilmot University at Albany-SUNY NYS Environmental Facilities and Development Board WMB Enterprises University at Buffalo-SUNY Corporation Southside Interfaith Community Woodbine Group University of Rochester NYS Offi ce of the Comptroller Development Corp. Workforce Development Institute Upstate Freshwater Institute NYS Tug Hill Commission Stearns & Wheler World Team Now NYSERDA Steelcase NYSTAR SUNY Stony Brook University Oakridge National Laboratory Synapse Partners Oncenter Complex Syracuse Convention & Visitors Bureau

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