CAREER: CAS-Climate -- A modeling framework to understand the environmental and equity impacts of building decarbonization retrofits

职业：CAS-Climate——了解建筑脱碳改造对环境和公平影响的建模框架

• 批准号: 2339386
• 负责人: Amanda Webb
• 金额: $ 50.6万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2339386&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; CAS; Climate; modeling; framework

Retrofitting existing buildings to reduce carbon emissions is an urgent engineering challenge. Existing buildings are responsible for one-third of U.S. carbon emissions and reducing or eliminating these emissions is critical for meeting national climate goals. However, if not fully understood and carefully managed, the climate benefits of decarbonization could come at the expense of energy affordability, increasing the already high energy burden felt in many low-income communities. Predictive building energy modeling tools (i.e., models as scientific data) and game-based learning methods (i.e., models as play) offer opportunities for examining what-if scenarios at the intersection of building decarbonization and equity, but need to be transformed to this aim. To meet this need, the goal of this CAREER research is to investigate the environmental and equity impacts of building decarbonization retrofits using a novel predictive modeling framework. The education goal is to increase public energy literacy through game-based learning. The outcomes of this research will help accelerate building decarbonization while balancing its benefits and costs across the population. The education activities will improve energy and carbon literacy among a diverse population of youth and young adults.This research has three specific objectives: (R1) Quantify the benefits and burdens of building decarbonization retrofits by climate and grid region using a novel equity-focused energy modeling approach; (R2) Analyze the interactions between decarbonization retrofits and underlying patterns of energy inequity at the urban scale using urban building energy modeling; and (R3) Determine the benefits and burdens of building decarbonization retrofits under future climate and grid scenarios. This research will advance fundamental understanding of building decarbonization and its impacts on underlying patterns of inequity in the built environment, as well as our capacity to model these impacts. The education activities will design, pilot, and evaluate two games for youth and young adults: (E1) Urban building decarbonization game for middle and high school students and teachers; and (E2) Energy burden simulation for undergraduate students. The education activities will produce classroom materials for teaching students about building decarbonization and household energy burden through game-based learning.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

改造现有建筑物以减少碳排放是紧迫的工程挑战。现有建筑物负责美国碳排放量的三分之一，并减少或消除这些排放对于实现国家气候目标至关重要。但是，如果没有完全理解和精心管理，脱碳的气候益处可能是以能源负担能力为代价的，从而增加了许多低收入社区中本来已经很高的能源负担。预测性建筑能源建模工具（即作为科学数据的模型）和基于游戏的学习方法（即模型作为游戏）为检查建筑物脱碳和公平交集的情况提供了机会，但需要将其转换为这个目标。为了满足这一需求，这项职业研究的目标是使用新颖的预测建模框架研究建筑脱碳改造的环境和公平影响。教育目标是通过基于游戏的学习来提高公共能源素养。这项研究的结果将有助于加速建筑物的脱碳，同时平衡其在整个人群中的收益和成本。教育活动将改善各种年轻人和年轻人人群中的能源和碳素养。这项研究具有三个具体的目标：（R1）使用一种新颖的以股权为中心的能源建模方法来量化通过气候和网格区域量化建筑物脱碳化改造的好处和负担； （R2）使用城市建筑能源建模分析城市规模上脱碳改造与潜在的能源不平等模式之间的相互作用； （R3）在未来的气候和网格场景下确定建筑物脱碳改造的好处和负担。这项研究将促进对建筑物脱碳化及其对建筑环境中不平等现象的影响的基本了解，以及我们对这些影响进行建模的能力。教育活动将设计，试点和评估青年和年轻人的两场游戏：（E1）中学和高中生和老师的城市建筑脱碳游戏； （E2）本科生的能源负担模拟。教育活动将通过基于游戏的学习来教育学生建立脱碳和家庭能源负担的教室材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来提供支持的。