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Focuses on problems in energy and environmental systems, including advanced light water reactors, inertial confinement fusion, and high level nuclear waste processing. Study how thermal-hydraulics phenomena affect the safety and performance of nuclear systems.

Building Science at the University of California Berkeley is dedicated to the energy efficiency and environmental quality of buildings. Its underlying premise is that energy-use patterns and environmental quality are related, and that this relationship contains great opportunities to improve the built environment. Building Science also has the objective of breaking down the compartmentalized decision-making that now characterizes building practice. Its research and teaching address the decisions made by architects, engineers, specifiers, facilities managers, and owners.

Such decisions are important, because they affect:

1)building occupants (who on average spend over ninety percent of their lives indoors, and whose health and productivity is influenced by the environment of the workplace)
2)buildings' energy use (in aggregate over one-third of our nation's energy consumption)
3)building costs (one of the largest categories of the nation's capital outlay)

The Building Science Group at Berkeley aims to influence practice and improve the environmental quality of buildings by educating future members of the building professions and by providing new technical information to the building professions and industry.