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	Brian  P. Dougherty Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1986 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1987 Position Mechanical Engineer Heat Transfer and Alternative Energy Systems Group Building Environment Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory		After first working as an NBS co-op, Mr. Dougherty joined the NIST Heat Transfer and Alternative Energy Systems Group in 1987. During his tenure, Mr. Dougherty has worked on projects that support the development and revision of test procedures for air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, and combined heat pump-water heating appliances. As part of these appliance-related projects, Brian Dougherty has conducted laboratory testing on different appliances, participated in field monitoring projects, and performed numerous analytical studies. His work is reflected in DOE test procedures, DOE-published decisions on test procedure waiver requests, alternative methods for rating untested indoor/outdoor coil combinations, ASHRAE Standards 37, 40, and 137, and ARI Standards 210/240 and 290. Mr. Dougherty remains active on international heat pump standardization efforts. He participates on the ISO working group that is cognizant for three testing and rating standards covering different categories of air conditioners and heat pumps. Mr. Dougherty serves on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO Technical Committee 86, "Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning." Brian Dougherty conducts solar photovoltaics research, with a focus on building-integrated (BIPV) applications. Dougherty and his NIST colleagues evaluate and model the electrical and thermal performance of photovoltaic panels when integrated into the building shell. Mr. Dougherty has played a lead role in constructing, commissioning, and operating two test facilities for conducting long-term, side-by-side studies on BIPV panels that have different design and installation features. As a precursor to this work, Mr. Dougherty helped to develop, demonstrate, and transfer the technology of using a solar photovoltaic array to heat domestic water. During the past year, Brian Dougherty led efforts at NIST to install, commission, and initially characterize a long-pulse solar simulator. The simulator will be used to investigate measurement deviations that are possible from conducting indoor testing in a variety of ways while remaining compliant with existing industry standards and/or industry practices. NIST seeks to aid both photovoltaic manufacturers, especially those relatively new to the business sector, and solar simulator manufacturers with making repeatable, quality measurements, while helping to incrementally reduce the uncertainties of the reported performance ratings. Brian Dougherty received a 1997 Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and a NIST Bronze Medal Award in 1999. He was selected for an ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award in 2006.

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