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Case study describing a multifamily, affordable housing retrofit project that achieved 44% energy savings using readily available, cost effective measures.
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Case study describing a deep energy retrofit, turning an old school into 12 high-end apartments in Greenfield, MA.
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Report providing a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis inherent to different models as a way of thinking about the transition from traditional business models into a viable model for delivering deep energy retrofits.
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Report of a field evaluation of four novel roof designs to see how each design would reduce space-conditioned energy use so that the knowledge gained could be applied to the design of new manufactured homes.
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Technical report describing the SPS (Structural Panel System), an innovative implementation of the "perfect wall" concept, situating environmental control layers on the exterior side of structural components for improved constructability, cost-effectiveness, and performance, validated through the...
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Case study describing a whole-house, deep energy retrofit project in the marine climate.
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Case study describing the first DOE Zero Energy Ready Home in Georgia that achieved a HERS score of 40 without PV and -10 with PV.
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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.
Presentation
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Webinar from Terrence Mosley, Rick Wertheim, and Theresa Gilbride on providing high performance, high indoor air quality, and net zero energy usage to affordable housing projects in accordance with U.S. DOE's Zero Energy Ready Home program, focusing on affordable projects from the United Way of Long...
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Report providing builders in the hot-dry and mixed-dry climates with guidance for building homes that have whole-house energy savings of 40% over the Building America benchmark with no added overall costs for consumers.
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Case study describing a DOE Zero Energy Ready Home 2014 Housing Innovation Award winner that scored HERS 69 without PV and -1 with PV.
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The next generation of building enclosures is a key step toward achieving high-performance goals through decreasing energy load demand and enabling advanced space-conditioning systems. Yet the adoption of high-R enclosures and particularly high-R walls has been a slow-growing trend because...
Case Study
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Case study describing a cost-effectively reducing energy use by over 50% in an existing home.
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Case study describing a new construction building project of 20 homes that earned HERS scores that represent greater than 50% energy savings in heating and cooling over the 2004 IECC.
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Case study describing the Green Home 3 project, which achieved a 44% whole-house energy savings over the Building America New Construction B10 Benchmark, DOE Zero Energy Ready Home certification, and National Green Building Standard Gold-level certification.
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Case study describing a DOE Zero Energy Ready Home 2014 Housing Innovation Award winner that scored HERS 45 without PV and 32 with PV and is the first home in the world to use a tri-generation system to supply electricity, heating, and cooling on site.
Case Study
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Case study describing new home construction in the marine climate that achieved 50% savings over the 2004 IECC.
Guide
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Guide describing how to install and properly integrate flashing at the intersection of the wall and roof on an existing home.