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Report on improving passive design adoption rates.
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Research study making several recommendations to whole-home program designers and implementers for improving the cost effectiveness and reach of whole-home programs.
Case Study
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Case study describing Building America's Optimized Solutions for energy efficient home construction in a mixed-dry climate.
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Case study describing Building America's Optimized Solutions for energy efficient home construction in a hot-humid climate.
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Webpage providing an ENERGY STAR climate zone map and criteria for ENERGY STAR storm windows per climate zone.
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Report detailing the proposed point structure for the prescriptive approach of the energy efficiency chapter of the NGBS update.
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Information sheet about the National Residential Efficiency Measures Database, a public database that characterizes the performance and costs of common residential energy efficiency measures.
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Report assessing the energy performance of the 2011 EVHA winners and to align the EVHA program with the BA program.
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Report discussing opportunities and trends in the U.S. home performance contracting industry, along with market drivers such as consumer demand; federal, state, and local programs; and utility and non-governmental programs.
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Report designed to help a builder understand quality management and its role in transitioning from conventional to HPH building and remodeling.
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Document providing an example procedure for establishing acceptance-range criteria to assess results from software undergoing BESTEST-EX.
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Document with the Quality Control Checklist developed as both a guide to assist in the transition to high performance home building, and as a simplified tool to be used as part of any builder's on-site quality control procedures.
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Report assessing the performance and cost-effectiveness of a zero net energy community project in Davis, CA.
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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.
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Report assessing the accuracy of HEST as it was being developed and to provide information useful to DOE program managers and HEST development team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Guidance document providing BA research teams and partners with specific information and approaches to identifying and overcoming potential barriers to Building America (BA) innovations arising in and/or stemming from codes, standards, and rating methods.
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Part of a larger LBNL report (Deep Energy Retrofit Guidance for the Building America Solutions Center), the Lessons Learned chapter focuses on successful deep energy retrofit projects throughout the U.S.
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Report developed for Habitat for Humanity about lessons learned from demonstration retrofit projects undertaken by Habitat for Humanity affiliates in New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; with building systems consulting and technical assistance provided by Steven Winter Associates.
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Report that collected field data from a whole-home program in Illinois are utilized to compare marketplace-installed measures to the energy saving optimal packages previously developed for 15 housing types.
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Report discussing Building America whole house systems research within the broad effort to reduce or eliminate the environmental impact of building and provides specific recommendations for future Building America research based on Building Science Corporations experience with several recent...
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Case study describing a DOE Building America Top Innovation on the Building America Solution Center, a website developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy Building America program to provide quick access to information on how to build and renovate homes to be...
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ENERGY STAR webpage describing the benefits of storm windows and a link to a product list.
Information Guide
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Information guide describing the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home, Version 1, requirements for high-performance windows.
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Tax credit for ENERGY STAR certified windows, doors and skylights.
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Document providing an overview of the Thermal Bypass Checklist for the ENERGY STAR Qualified Homes program.
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Information sheet describing solar PV upgrade for an existing homes.
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Federal statistics about national energy consumption in residential homes.
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Website with information about ENERGY STAR criteria for geothermal heat pumps.