The National Taipei University of Technology Sustainable Environmental Control Center combines architecture and thermal science, with a focus on energy conservation and sustainable environments, to create processes and architectural spaces for low-temperature preservation and sustainable environmental control. Specializing in overall building energy-saving design, architectural energy simulation, cultural heritage environmental control, and refrigeration and air conditioning energy-saving technology, the center has undertaken several cutting-edge industry-academic research projects, including AI smart energy-saving and predictive diagnostic technology, high-efficiency refrigeration and air conditioning systems and equipment, digital twin technology, net zero carbon buildings and green building technology, green cold chain technology, green data centers, and high-performance sustainable buildings, particularly in high-tech factories and cloud data centers, assisting in the construction of high-tech semiconductor and optoelectronic plant facilities certified by LEED, the US Green Building Council. The center also participated in energy efficiency simulation and energy consulting for advanced cloud data center construction projects such as Taiwan Fixed Network and Chunghwa Telecom, completing Taiwan's first energy efficiency simulation verification for Tier III data center certification by the authoritative Uptime Institute, and publishing several research papers and energy-saving technology handbooks on data center energy-saving technology.
In executing energy design schemes, achieving the optimal balance between cost expenditure, energy-saving benefits, and return on investment can be accomplished through energy analysis. Different energy analysis techniques such as laboratory experiments, on-site measurements, and energy simulation can be applied to different scales of building environments. However, the interaction of multiple physical factors in the environment, the mutual constraints of various building equipment, will generate complex control logic and strategies. Accurate energy analysis must be combined with environmental control technology to achieve multiple benefits of energy saving, comfort, and economy. In architectural design, improving the limitations of the natural environment using equipment and design methods mainly falls into two categories: "Applied Building Physics" and "Building Equipment Control." "Applied Building Physics" improves environmental quality by designing and guiding natural phenomena such as sunlight, wind, rain, and air pressure. "Building Equipment Control" uses mechanical equipment such as refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, ventilation regulation, water supply and drainage, monitoring, and electrical facilities to meet environmental control requirements that cannot be achieved through applied building physics design methods.
The research direction of the center includes the analysis of the interaction of multiple physical factors in the environment, research on architectural design and environmental control, various energy analysis techniques, integration, and equipment development. Combining architecture and thermal science with a focus on energy conservation and sustainable environments, the center aims to create energy-saving and sustainable processes and architectural spaces. The center deeply collaborates with the industry, forming an advisory committee composed of industry experts and establishing three industry-academic research linkage subgroups: energy analysis, environmental control, and system integration.