This is the homepage of
SABINE BUSCHING

For this year--that is, 1996--there are two places to reach me: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg Fachbereich Architekur Fachgebiet Technischer Ausbau Lerchenfeld 2 D-22081 Hamburg Germany Fon: +49 (40) 2984-3317 Fax: +49 (40) 2984-2279 E-mail: S.Busching@t-online.de Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Bldg. 90 Rm. 2000 Fon: +1 (510) 486-7621 Fax: +1 (510) 486-4673 E-mail: S_Busching@LBL.gov (There is an underscore "_" between the "S" and the "B.")

This actually is a beautiful rock on a small hill in the middle of San Francisco.

I'm a professor at the HfbK Hamburg and I teach in the Section of Building Science within the Department of Architecture. Lecture and seminar topics are, i.e.:

• Fundamentals of Energy and Building Materials
• Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality
• Energy-Efficient Building Services (Mechanical) Systems
  (Heating, Ventilation, Hot Water, Air Conditioning, Water Supply, Waste Water, Electricity, ...)
• Energy and Environmental Management
• Energy-Efficient Building Design
  (Thermal Performance of Buildings, Building Energy Analysis, Simulation of Heat Demand and Calculation of Heat Consumption, Low Energy Buildings, . . .)
• Renewable Energy
  (Passive Solar Design, Active Solar Design, . . .)
• Research Methods in Building Science

My major research areas are:

• Energy Conservation and Energy Efficiency of Buildings in general
  (and I'm talking about Primary Energy)
• Energy Performance of Low Energy Buildings
• Ventilation Systems
• Evaluation of Government-Supported Programs related to Energy Conservation in the Building Sector
• Contracting as incentive to implement of Energy-Efficient Mechanical Systems and Renewable Energy

Working in unknown surroundings makes one aware of different concepts and (if you're lucky) it encourages creativity. That is one (out of more good) reasons why for the year of 1996, I am associated to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, as a guest scientist. I worked for the Building Energy Measurement and Performance Analysis within the Energy Analysis Department of the Environmental Energy Technology Division.

For LBL, I work on a project for the International Energy Agency (organized as an IEA-BCS Working Group) called "Indicators of Energy Efficiency in Cold-Climate Buildings" with Alan Meier (who would be the best person to contact in case you have questions or suggestions about this project because he is Principal Investigator) and Brian Pon (who helped me with this web page!).

One of my very recent discoveries in the US was the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE), an international network which I recently joined.