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Report presenting performance results from tests conducted on an energy efficiency retrofit project in Stockton, California.

Research study examining efficiency retrofit opportunities, typical renovation practices, and pathways for achieving U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) goals for existing homes in Florida.

Research study evaluating energy savings and cost effectiveness of installing low-emissivity (low-e) storm windows over existing windows in residential homes in all climate zones.

The objective of this research was to quantify the field performance of wood-frame walls clad with a variety of common claddings in a mixed-humid climate.

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.

Report exploring alternative methods to find long-term solutions to energy loss in 1 ½-story homes to save energy, improve comfort, prevent frost buildup on the underside of the roof deck, and reduce the risk of ice dam formation/reformation.

Part of a larger LBNL report (Deep Energy Retrofit Guidance for the Building America Solutions Center), the Over Time, Phased Guidance chapter presents a phased approach to deep energy retrofits.

Part of a larger LBNL report (Deep Energy Retrofit Guidance for the Building America Solutions Center), the Occupant Behavior chapter discusses how to assess homeowner behavior patterns and use these patterns to enhance overall energy savings.

Website with prepopulated information about the United States renewable resources.

Document about testing software predictions of retrofit energy savings in existing homes.

Report summarizing the results of laboratory testing of 20 advanced power strip products.

Report identifying business models for the remodeling industry that foster remodelers adoption of energy efficiency services.

Document about development of a new test procedure to increase the quality and accuracy of energy analysis tools for the building retrofit market.

Document describing the measured annual performance data from 12 recent-vintage very low energy homes in the US.

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.

Research report presenting results of short term tests on measures used in an energy efficiency retrofit project in California.

Report designed to help a builder understand quality management and its role in transitioning from conventional to HPH building and remodeling.

Report assessing the performance and cost-effectiveness of a zero net energy community project in Davis, CA.

Report describing the progress toward and issues related to developing a usable, standardized, empirical data-based software accuracy test suite.

Document providing an example procedure for establishing acceptance-range criteria to assess results from software undergoing BESTEST-EX.

Document about NREL's repository of residential building characteristics and historical energy use data, used to improve accuracy of residential energy analysis tools.

Factsheet describing the importance of system charging, superheat and subcooling.

Report describing an air distribution system composed of a series of uniformly-sized ducts that terminate in rooms throughout the home and return to a central manifold, similar in fashion to a “home-run” cross-linked polyethylene plumbing system.

Report using data from various sources to characterize the impact on human health and property damage from indoor environmental quality and other hazards.

Report describing an analysis method for determining optimal residential energy efficiency retrofit packages and applies the analysis method to a 1960s-era home in eight U.S. cities.

Report describing a simple and general way to generate House Simulation Protocol (HSP)-consistent internal sensible and latent loads in unoccupied homes.

Report describing two retrofit duct sealing techniques - manually-applied sealants and injecting a spray sealant, that were implemented in several low-rise multi-unit buildings in North Carolina.