U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Building Technologies Office

Market-Driven Research Solutions

Presentations from Track C, Market-Driven Research Solutions of the U.S. Department of Energy Building America program's 2012 Residential Energy Efficiency Stakeholder Meeting are provided below as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

These presentations were delivered in the following sessions:

• Building America Outreach Initiatives
• Building America Case Studies
• Technical Approach to Home Energy Management
• Valuing Energy Efficiency
• Software Accuracy Issues in Poorly Insulated, Leaky Homes
• New Additions to Codes

Building America Outreach Initiatives

• Customer-Focused Deployment: Builders Challenge Version 2 and the Building America Resource Tool
• Building America Publications
• Public-Private Sector Media Partnerships

Building America Case Studies

• Achieving High Performance Cost Neutrality through Building America: A Builder's Perspective
• CNT Energy Savers Program Collaboration with Building America
• Residential Retrofits in the Southeast: A Performance Update

Technical Approach to Home Energy Management

• An Introduction to Brillion Technology
• Non-intrusive Load Disaggregation

Valuing Energy Efficiency

• Kitchen Table Strategy: Home Inspectors Driving Demand for Home Energy Upgrades
• Financing Residential Retrofits
• Valuing Energy Efficiency for Utility Rebate Programs

Software Accuracy Issues in Poorly Insulated, Leaky Homes

• Stories from Field Research and Lessons Learned from Comprehensive Energy Audits
• Winter Infiltration Results from the FRTF Laboratory
• Improving Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Modeling

New Additions to Codes

• What's New in Energy Codes?
• Current Activities in Support of Energy Codes
• Insulation Strategies to Meet Upcoming Code and Above Code Programs
• Harmonizing "Above Code" Codes
• Widely Disseminating Advanced Building Technology: Proposing Changes to ICC Model Codes