Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation
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Description
Report summarizing post-retrofit results for 13 existing homes in a deep energy retrofit pilot program.
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Organization(s)
Alliance for Residential Building Innovation,
ARBI,
Davis Energy Group
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Description
Report evaluating opportunities to improve and streamline delivery of residential retrofit measures.
Organization(s)
FSEC
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Description
Report about an experimental evaluation conducted on a night sky cooling system designed to substantially reduce space cooling needs in homes in North American climates.
Organization(s)
Alliance for Residential Building Innovation,
ARBI,
Davis Energy Group
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Description
Expert meeting on the topic of performance guarantees and financing vehicles for energy efficiency upgrades.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
PNNL
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Description
Report presenting the process of a residential retrofit project for houses in the states of Florida and Alabama, including findings at the time of reporting and highlights of the first home to meet the target HERS Index of 70.
Organization(s)
Extension Foundation,
Cooperative Extension System
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Description
Homepage for Extension Foundation, a partner of the Cooperative Extension System, whose goal is providing an interactive learning environment delivering the best, most researched knowledge from the best land-grant university minds across America.
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LSU AgCenter
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Description
Webpage from LSU AgCenter answering frequently asked questions after gutting a flooded home, including mitigation strategies for future floods.
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FEMA
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Description
Report from FEMA on how to reduce damage from localized flooding including planning, drainage, building codes and retrofits, and regulations.
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FEMA
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Description
Report from FEMA describing techniques for floodproofing structures.
Organization(s)
NorthernSTAR Building America Partnership,
NorthernSTAR,
University of Minnesota
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Description
Report describing a project focused on the use of home energy ratings as a tool to promote energy retrofits in existing homes.
Organization(s)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL,
Mountain Energy Partnership
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Description
Report describing a simple and general way to generate House Simulation Protocol (HSP)-consistent internal sensible and latent loads in unoccupied homes.
Organization(s)
NAHB Research Center,
Home Innovation Research Labs,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL,
Southface Energy Institute,
Southface
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Description
Report outlining the energy upgrade package implemented in Ft. Benning, GA, Indianhead Townhomes project and the findings of the Southface Energy Institute's post-renovation analysis.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC,
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy,
ACEEE
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Description
Conference paper describing how retrofits were used in a Florida home to change it from a high energy user to a near zero-energy home.
Organization(s)
NAHB Research Center,
Home Innovation Research Labs
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Description
Report detailing field walk-through evaluations, energy simulations for projected savings with exterior insulation upgrades, building envelope energy improvement cost estimates, and installation and maintenance of monitoring equipment and data.
Organization(s)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL,
Mountain Energy Partnership
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Description
Research report presenting results of short term tests on measures used in an energy efficiency retrofit project in California.
Organization(s)
HUD,
CDC,
EPA,
FEMA,
OSHA
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Description
Guidance from HUD for volunteer team leaders, project managers and supervisors who work in recovery and rebuilding after natural disasters.
Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Description
Document providing guidance about building healthy homes using building science principles.
Organization(s)
Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems,
Fraunhofer CSE,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL
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Description
Research study investigating the factors influencing consumer adoption of HEDs and evaluating the resulting electricity consumption.
Organization(s)
SSC
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Description
Guidebook that provides information on earthquake hazards that can damage homes, the design and retrofit of earthquake resistant housing, and how to find more information on earthquake safety.
Organization(s)
BEEHA,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Description
Report detailing an evaluation of Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) residential energy efficiency demand side management (DSM) programs to assess their impacts and relative measures of energy and economic performance.
Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation,
BSD
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Description
Report discussing the importance of durability and energy efficiency in building construction.
Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Description
Guidebook providing useful examples of high performance retrofit techniques for the building enclosure of wood frame residential construction in a cold and somewhat wet climate.
Organization(s)
Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction,
BA-PIRC,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL,
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC
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Description
Report summarizing a case study about the performance of three occupied homes built in 2009 in San Antonio, Texas.
Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation
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Description
Report about a test home project evaluating strategies to elevate the performance of existing homes to a level commensurate with best-in-class implementation of high performance new construction homes.
Organization(s)
EPA
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Description
Webpage with links to documents providing the program requirements and checklists for ENERGY STAR Certified Homes (Ver. 3/3.1, Rev. 9).
Organization(s)
Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction,
BA-PIRC,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL
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Description
Report demonstrating cost-effective energy savings targets as well as improved comfort and indoor environmental quality associated with deep energy retrofits by a large public housing authority as part of a larger rehabilitation effort.
Organization(s)
FSEC
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Description
Report about an experimental evaluation has been conducted on a night sky cooling system designed to substantially reduce space cooling needs in homes in North American climates.
Organization(s)
IBACOS,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Description
Report providing information about improving the energy efficiency and long-term durability of the buildings that are being reconstructed post Katrina in New Orleans.
Organization(s)
ARBI,
Davis Energy Group
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Description
Report presenting performance results from tests conducted on an energy efficiency retrofit project in Stockton, California.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC
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Description
Paper examining the monitored performance of four newly constructed near zero energy homes in Florida.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC
Publication Date
Description
Report describing research on how to reduce energy used by residential homes by applying shallow and deep retrofits to an existing home.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC,
Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction,
BA-PIRC
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Description
Report describing single retrofit measures applied to shallow retrofitted homes that could be used to refine the deep retrofit package.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC
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Description
Report briefly reviewing past research on the effects of occupant behavior on residential energy use and then covering a two year pilot evaluation of a low cost residential energy feedback system installed in twenty case study homes in Florida.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC
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Description
Report briefly reviewing past research on the effects of occupant behavior on residential energy use and then covering a two year pilot evaluation of a low cost residential energy feedback system installed in twenty case study homes in Florida.
Organization(s)
Advanced Residential Integrated Energy Solutions Collaborative,
ARIES,
Levy Partnership,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL
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Description
Report presenting ways public housing authorities (PHAs) can develop packages of energy efficiency retrofit measures the PHAs can cost-effectively implement with their own staff in the normal course of housing operations at the time when units are refurbished between occupancies.
Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Description
Research study about two test homes that are examined with the goal of providing case studies that could be applied to other similar New England homes.
Organization(s)
Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Description
Document with important building science considerations, designed for members of the residential construction and remodeling industries, as well as owners and managers who work in affordable housing.
Organization(s)
HUD
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Description
App developed by HUD to assist homeowners with lead paint and other hazards common to older homes.
Organization(s)
BARA
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Description
Research project aimed to verify whether homes in the New Jersey HPwES program achieved 30% source energy savings, and if so, what measures were implemented to achieve them.
Organization(s)
BSC
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Description
Document containing some of the basic characteristics for energy performance, durability, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality that should be met in all high performance homes.
Organization(s)
IBACOS,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL
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Description
Report describing how modification of model specifications to include guidance on energy efficiency measures can create a greater level of consistency in executing energy efficiency retrofit measures across the multiple regions where a developer may work.
Organization(s)
Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings,
CARB,
Steven Winter Associates,
SWA,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL
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Description
Report describing research efforts focused on examining the audit reports for quality, comprehensiveness, and consistency.
Organization(s)
CARB,
Steven Winter Associates,
SWA
Description
Report on air-sealing programs for energy-efficiency retrofits.
Organization(s)
CARB,
Steven Winter Associates,
SWA
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Description
Report about a tool developed to enable users to compare a typical 1970s ranch home against an IECC 2009 code-compliant home of the same configuration and against the 70s base case plus retrofits.
Organization(s)
CARB,
Steven Winter Associates,
SWA
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Description
Report about a deep energy retrofit Cool Energy House.
Organization(s)
CARB,
Steven Winter Associates,
SWA
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Description
Information sheet describing tankless hot water heating systems in existing homes.
Organization(s)
CARB,
Steven Winter Associates,
SWA
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Description
Information sheet describing solar hot water systems in existing homes.
Organization(s)
CARB,
Steven Winter Associates,
SWA
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Description
Information sheet about envelope and roof moisture control retrofit for a home.
Organization(s)
HUD
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Description
Factsheet from HUD describing how to properly rebuild following natural disasters in Puerto Rico.
Organization(s)
HUD
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Description
Factsheet from HUD describing how homeowners can retrofit homes following natural disasters in the U.S. Virgin Islands.