Showing 9 results for Researcher: Som S. Shrestha
May 9, 2025
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Four senior staff scientists in building technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory took home ASHRAE’s highest professional honors during the organization’s annual winter conference in Orlando, Florida.
October 25, 2024
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ThermoVerse and Expanding Frontiers have made strides in energy innovation by securing wins in Phase 2 of the Department of Energy’s American-Made Lab MATCH Prize, a competition designed to accelerate commercialization of national laboratory technologies.
June 6, 2024
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Building innovations from ORNL will be on display in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall June 7 to June 9, 2024, during the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Innovation Housing Showcase. For the first time, ORNL’s real-time building evaluator was demonstrated outside of a laboratory setting and deployed for building construction.
February 1, 2024
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ORNL researchers have developed a novel way to encapsulate salt hydrate phase-change materials within polymer fibers through a coaxial pulling process. The discovery could lead to the widespread use of the low-carbon materials as a source of insulation for a building’s envelope.
March 23, 2023
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Scientists at ORNL developed a competitive, eco-friendly alternative made without harmful blowing agents.
November 15, 2022
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Stor4Build is a new consortium focused on energy storage for buildings that will accelerate the growth, optimization and deployment of storage technologies.
June 1, 2021
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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a novel envelope system that diverts heat or coolness away from a building and stores it for future use.
July 5, 2017
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A new tool developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can help homeowners and builders calculate energy loss when air leaks through a building’s envelope, the physical barrier separating the interior and exterior. Starting with specific building metrics, the calculator analyzes multiz...
September 28, 2016
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ORNL selected two building technologies projects as part of a DOE pilot designed to accelerate the transfer of clean energy technologies developed in national labs to the marketplace. Lab-Corps, managed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory, invited ORNL’s Team Continuous Insulation-ReClad (CI-ReC...