Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on building energy efficiency.
The new center, which President Obama and President Hu Jintao formally announced last year, will develop technologies for low-energy residential and commercial buildings, as well as work on the commercialization of those technologies and research how human behavior affects building energy use. In its role as an industrial partner, Bentley will share its expertise in software for infrastructure and provide professional training and information modeling and collaboration technology to facilitate best practices for building energy design, analysis, and simulation as well as project collaboration, reporting, and management.
“On behalf of Bentley Systems, I want to thank the U.S. Department of Energy for inviting us to participate in this crucial initiative,” said Dr. Dru Crawley, Bentley director, Building Performance Products. “In Bentley’s mission of sustaining infrastructure, we look forward to working with the DOE, ORNL, LBNL, and all of the other prestigious organizations that make up this incredible team to help advance the energy performance and sustainability of buildings in China and in the United States. Bentley’s expectation is that innovations such as those generated by the CERC and the application of these advanced technologies will inspire additional initiatives that lead to better-performing buildings around the globe.”
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