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Report documenting short-term test results of the Shift House and compares the results of Passive House Planning Package and Building Energy Optimization modeling of the project.

Report intending to provide useful information as the DOE/BA develops and implements comprehensive communications and outreach strategies for demonstration homes.

Report evaluating opportunities to improve and streamline delivery of residential retrofit measures.

A website providing information on the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Solution Center, a source for innovations in residential building energy performance, energy efficiency, quality, affordability and comfort for more than 20 years.

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

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.

Information sheet discussing the differences between homeowner energy consumption trends in highly efficient homes.

Updated wildfire risk assessment, community impacts, and building science measures following the disastrous 2020 wildfire season in the western U.S.

Report describing methodology to assess and improve the accuracy of whole building energy analysis for residential buildings.

Report summarizing the guidelines for developing and reporting analytical results in a consistent and meaningful manner for all home energy uses.

Report summarizing the key opportunities, gaps, and barriers identified by the national laboratory white papers discussing long-term 50% energy reduction goals.

Research study identifying best practices of three successful high performance, custom home builders in the upper Midwest.

Document outlining the approach to quality assurance in the construction process as recommended by Building Science Corporation for new residential construction.

Document identifying differences between the requirements for construction documents for high performance housing and the documents that are typically produced for conventional housing.

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

Document providing guidance about building healthy homes using building science principles.

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.

Document serving as a starting point that features initial tools and resources for teams to start collaborating to continually improve the energy efficiency and durability of new houses.

Website showing compliance timelines for various versions of the ENERGY STAR Single-Family New Home program requirements with links to national program requirements documents and checklists.

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

Fact sheet poster describing a series of fact sheets and checklists for homeowners to share with contractors to help achieve cost-effective, energy-efficient retrofits for dozens of common home renovation projects.

Expert meeting on the topic of performance guarantees and financing vehicles for energy efficiency upgrades.

Research study investigating the factors influencing consumer adoption of HEDs and evaluating the resulting electricity consumption.

Website providing information on U.S. residential and commercial building codes including adoption status.

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.

Document providing a case study of commissioned performance measures that justify costs for these demonstration and "live" show homes.

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.

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