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

Building Technologies Office

Test Homes and Community Scale Projects

Presentations from Track C, Test Homes and Community Scale Projects: The Successes and Challenges, of the U.S. Department of Energy Building America program's 2010 Residential Buildings Energy Efficiency Meeting are provided below as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

Presentations from Track C, Test Homes and Community Scale Projects: The Successes and Challenges, were presented in the following sessions:

• How to Monitor Test Homes
• Climate-Based Case Studies: Cold/Very Cold
• Climate-Based Case Studies: Mixed Climate Zones
• Climate-Based Case Studies: Hot-Humid
• Climate-Based Case Studies: Hot-Dry/Mixed-Dry
• Climate-Based Case Studies: Mixed-Humid
• Statistical Variability in Occupants, Evaluation Strategies
• Differences in Utility Bill Data vs. Simulations
• Climate-Based Case Studies: Mixed Climate Zones

How to Monitor Test Homes

• ORNL TVA
• IBACOS' Research Home Monitoring Plans
• Advanced System Field Test PTest Homes and Community Scale Project Protocols

Climate-Based Case Studies: Cold/Very Cold

• South Jordan, Utah Case Study
• Hartford, Connecticut Retrofit Project
• Fould's House - Concord, Massachusetts

Climate-Based Case Studies: Mixed Climate Zones

• Miranda Homes, Portland, Oregon, Marine Climate
• West Village Project, Davis, California - Hot-Dry Climate
• PassivHaus, Sonoma, California - Marine Climate

Climate-Based Case Studies: Hot-Humid

• Project RE:Focus/European Solar Decathlon House
• Deep Energy Retrofits in Florida and Alabama
• Project Home Again, New Orleans

Climate-Based Case Studies: Hot-Dry/Mixed-Dry

• Wathen Castanos 50% Prototype Home Case Study
• ReVision House Retrofit Project, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Super Energy Efficient Design (SEED Home) Project, Tucson, Arizona

Climate-Based Case Studies: Mixed-Humid

• Montgomery County, Maryland - Habitat for Humanity Project
• High Performance Development Challenge, Case Study
• Retrofit Case Studies

Statistical Variability in Occupants, Evaluation Strategies

• Dataset Requirements, Sampling Requirements, and Data Automation and Aggregation
• Accelerating Broad Implementation - Evaluating/Maximizing Energy Savings in a Near-Zero Energy Community
• Quantifying Energy Efficiency Program Impacts

Differences in Utility Bill Data vs. Simulations

• Simulation Accuracy (WMV 50 KB)
• Impact of User Behavior On Energy Consumption (WMV 44 MB)
• Optimizing Energy Audits (WMV 43 MB)

Climate-Based Case Studies: Mixed Climate Zones

• Northern California Retrofit Projects
• Cold Climate Retrofit Case Study, Chicago & Michigan. Can We  Deliver Cost Effective, Safe, Prescriptive Measures?
• Pacific Northwest Projects/ Marine Climate Zone Case Study
• Tommy Williams Homes, Gainesville, Florida - Hot Humid Climate Zone Case Study