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Name: Joe Huang
Current Position: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Role: Modeling Expert
Telephone Number: +1 510 486 7082
E‐mail: YJHuang@LBL.gov
Mr Joe Huang has been at LBNL since 1981, working primarily in analyzing building energy
performance using DOE‐2 simulations. His current work including research into low‐energy
cooling technologies in both residential and commercial buildings, evaluating the energy savings
from improved HVAC systems and controls in a large office building in San Francisco, and
developing simulation‐based user programs which is the subject of his talk today. Mr Huang will
compare the advantages and disadvantages of interactive simulation‐based PC programs to
parametric data base methods with which he has direct experience, having created the DOE‐2
data bases of residential building energy use used for ASHRAE 90.2 residential energy standard
and DOEʹs COSTSAFR and ARES voluntary energy guidelines.
Mr Huang is also a leading consultant to China’s Ministry of Construction and provincial and
local governments in the development of residential and commercial building codes. Since 2000,
Dr. Huang has provided technical assistance to the China Building Energy Conservation
Association (CBECA) and the China Academy of Building Research (CABR) in drafting regional
energy standards for both residential and commercial buildings in the Hot‐Summer Cold‐Winter
region (Central China) and the Hot‐Summer Warm‐Winter region (South China), as well as
national standards for both regions.
Name: Professor Yasunobu Ashie
Current Position: Building Research Institute,
Environmental Research Group
Role: Urban Energy Systems Experts
Telephone Number: Not available
E‐mail: ashie@kenken.go.jp
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