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

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

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

Flexlab is designed to test the comfort of the occupants as well as enhance energy efficiency. One of the many trade-offs found in an office space includes that of daylight and heat: It is desirable ...

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