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United Technologies Research Center Collaborates With Green Building Studio, Inc. For Advanced Building Energy Analysis Services

Posted on: Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 15:01 CDT

SANTA ROSA, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Building Studio, Inc. today announced that it had been selected to participate in a collaboration agreement with the United Technologies Research Center ("UTRC"), a division of United Technologies Corporation, to jointly develop advanced simulation software for commercial building energy analysis. The collaboration is part of an ongoing $11.1 million cost-sharing award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Technology Program (see jazz.nist.gov/atpcf/prjbriefs/prjbrief.cfm?ProjectNumber=00-00-5641) awarded to UTRC and Oculus Technologies The project objective is to develop simulation-based design methodologies that improve integration and operation of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and combined heat and power systems in commercial buildings, targeting energy efficiency gains of 30-40%. Green Building Studio's contributions will include a web-accessible energy simulator that will allow architects and engineers to evaluate design alternatives and optimize system performance in the early stages of building design.

"In December 2005, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) called for a 50% reduction by 2010 of fossil fuel used to construct and operate buildings. Across the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction industry (AEC), the Green Building Studio web service is seen as the key design tool that will enable design teams to create tomorrow's efficient buildings today," said John Kennedy, President & CTO of Green Building Studio, Inc.

For more information about Green Building Studio's role see http://www.greenbuildingstudio.com/gbsinc/corp_newsdetail.aspx?id=39.

About United Technologies Corporation, http://www.utc.com/

Based in Hartford, Conn., UTC is a diversified company that provides high technology products and services to the aerospace and building industries worldwide. UTC businesses include Otis Elevator, Carrier heating and cooling, UTC Fire & Security, Sikorsky helicopters, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and UTC Power.

About Green Building Studio http://www.greenbuildingstudio.com/

Green Building Studio, Inc., an architectural, engineering and construction software and services company, is the industry leader in the development and implementation of building energy analysis tools and web-based solutions. Developers of the open-source Green Building XML (gbXML) data standard, Green Building Studio provides expert design assistance and research consulting services and operates the award winning energy efficiency information web service http://www.greenbuildingstudio.com/ (for architects and engineers).

About Oculus Technologies http://www.oculustech.com/

Oculus Technologies, Inc. provides ground-breaking collaborative and optimization software that is maximizing the growing investment in modeling and simulation by the Construction, Automotive, Aerospace, and Retail Industries. Our Integrated Development Environment for Modeling and Simulation (IDEMS) is revolutionizing collaborative engineering to enable rapid research and development, thereby, significantly shortening the time to market for new products, ensuring products are fit for purpose, and reducing overall costs. Oculus Technologies is based in Boston, MA and was formed as a consequence of research projects at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a multi-million dollar investment by the Ford Motor Company.

Green Building Studio, Inc.

CONTACT: John F. Kennedy, President & CTO of Green Building Studio,Inc., +1-707-569-7373, ext. 100

Web site: http://www.greenbuildingstudio.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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