The Advanced Construction Laboratory, or ACL, located within the Maximum Building Energy Efficiency Research facility, leads U.S. research and development efforts focused on modernizing the construction industry.
BTRIC tools help develop component technologies resistant to heat flow, airtight and moisture-durable than existing technologies.
BTRIC chamber capabilities include wall and air moisture penetration chambers and large, mid-size and multi-zone chambers for equipment evaluation.
BTRIC uses residential and instrumented research buildings to evaluate and test equipment prototypes.
ORNL’s building energy efficiency researchers have access to some of the most powerful supercomputing, visualization, and analytics tools in the world.