Technology Transfer Committee
The vision of the Solar Buildings Research Network’s Technology Transfer Committee (TTC )is to successfully adapt the diverse and creative research activities into constructive forms of information that are useful to consumers, designers, builders, manufacturers, policy makers, researchers and their respective organizations.
The mandate of the Network is to conduct applied research aimed at making cost effective solar buildings that operate efficiently in Canada. Research efforts must be positioned to address what is build-able and affordable, both initially and over the life cycle of buildings that employ solar technologies. There is a need to establish a framework for continuity and innovation beyond the Solar Buildings Research Network’s mandate. For the TTC this means there are several aspects of technology transfer that need to be addressed, some at the outset, and others as the research progress.
A primary requirement for technology transfer is that it is effective both within the Network amongst Network collaborators and between the Network and external stakeholders. The latter technology transfer can take on a variety of forms: a Network web site; solar workshops/conferences; design guidelines with accompanying software, as well as full-scale demonstration projects.
The role of technology transfer is to not only accelerate research, development and demonstration of solar building technologies, but also to support the continuity of solar building R&D long after the sun has set on the Solar Buildings Research Network. Your ideas and input are important ingredients for the long term success of solar energy utilization in buildings in Canada, and we look forward to be working together to forge a technology transfer plan that is effective and adaptive.
Alan Fung, Chair and Peter Kettenbeil, Co-Chair
Solar Buildings Research Network Technology Transfer Committee