Research and Technology Committee
Chair, Dave De Block,
reported to the board and had two motions approved during this morning's open Board of Directors meeting.
Research Subcommittee:
Action:
Request a motion to make the Window 6-Therm 6 Validation Research Project final
report due by the NFRC Fall 2012 Membership meeting.
Board approved unanimously.
Discussion:
The Complex VT Rating Research Project received one bid form University of
California-Davis (UCD). UCD is
negotiating with the NFRC on the intellectual property (IP) rights for the
development of the project. The Research and Technology Committee requests the
Board provide guidance on ownership of the IP developed for the project and the
requirement that NFRC take ownership of any device created under the research.
Information:
The CMA Improved Algorithm Research Project is progressing well with expected
completion by the Fall 2012 Membership meeting.
Thermophysical Properties
of Materials Subcommittee
Action:
Request a motion for the approval of the NFRC 101 ballot and implementation
upon publication. NFRC 103 will be
terminated (the new NFRC 101 document now includes NFRC 103 procedures)
Board approved unanimously.
Optical Properties
Subcommittee:
Information:
LBNL reported progress on the Glazing Interlaboratory Comparison and expects to
complete the full report by the Fall 2012 Membership meeting. LBNL also
reported good progress on the Complex Glazing Interlaboratory Comparison with
more testing data due prior to completion.
Information: The NFRC 302 TG expects to develop an NFRC 302 ballot
for the Fall 2012 Membership meeting.
Information from the Glazing ILC will be considered during ballot
development.
