Inside the Building Technology Showcase: Heating
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase is a far-reaching, energy-efficient retrofit of a 100-year-old historic structure in Boston’s Innovation District. In this new series, we look ‘under the hood’ to explore some of the…
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building America Research Now Available
For the past fifteen years, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America program has drawn on researchers, industry, and the US national lab system to develop and demonstrate market-ready solutions for builders and…
Fraunhofer’s Building Innovation Alliance at BAU 2013
On January 14th, architects, building components, systems, and materials manufacturers descended on Munich for BAU, the world’s leading trade fair for architecture, building materials and systems. First held in 1964, this biennial show has since…
Price HVAC Visits the Building Technology Showcase
With Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase heading towards completion, visits from Showcase industry partners have become a regular occurrence on the BTS construction site. The latest visitors came air distribution equipment manufacturer Price…
Fraunhofer CSE Evaluates Radiator Labs’ Radiator Retrofit Technology
If you’ve ever lived in a building heated by steam radiators, you may be familiar with their shortcomings. Traditional steam radiators – found in buildings throughout the Northeast – can be a major…
NESEA Tours the Building Technology Showcase
On Tuesday afternoon, members of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) toured Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase construction site in the Boston Innovation District to learn more about this innovative retrofit project and…
CSE Opens its Doors to Global Cleantech Meet-up Attendees
After two days of intense networking, attendees of last week’s Global Cleantech Meet-Up took a well-deserved break with a whistle-stop tour of the Boston clean energy community. Among the featured attractions: Fraunhofer CSE,…
Behind the Curtain: Fraunhofer CSE’s Featured Stops on the Global Cleantech Meet-up Innovation Tour
High-impact networking isn’t the only thing happening at next week’s Global Cleantech Meet-up – attendees will also have an opportunity to embark on the Innovation Tour, a self-guided walk through the research centers and companies that make…
Designing the High-Performance Home: Fraunhofer CSE Assesses Technology for Builders and Owners
“High-Performance.” For many Americans, it’s a term that summons up visions of gleaming sports cars or lightning-fast supercomputers. But in the last few years, a new and very different kind of “high-performance” item has emerged: a home…
A Cleantech Commonwealth: Massachusetts Undersecretary for Energy Barbara Kates-Garnick Keynotes Building Technologies Symposium
On June 21st, 2012, Fraunhofer CSE co-hosted the Building Technologies Symposium, a cross-disciplinary event intended to bring together building technology researchers and industry representatives to discuss the barriers and issues they face in the…
