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Building America Best Practices Series Volume 14 - HVAC: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners This guide, which is part of a series of Best Practices guides produced by DOE’s Building America program, describes ways homeowners can reduce their energy costs and improve the comfort, health, and Details Bookmark & Share
Strategy Guideline: Advanced Construction Documentation Recommendations for High Performance Homes As whole house energy efficiency increases, new materials and new systems require greater coordination and communication between industry stakeholders. This report presents four changes that are recom Details Bookmark & Share
Energy Savings Measure Packages: Existing Homes This document presents the most cost effective Energy Savings Measure Packages (ESMP) for existing mixed-fuel and all electric homes to achieve 15% and 30% savings for each BetterBuildings grantee loc Details Bookmark & Share
National Residential Efficiency Measures Database Aimed at Reducing Risk for Residential Retrofit Industry This technical highlight describes NREL research to develop a publicly available database of energy retrofit measures containing performance characteristics and cost estimates for nearly 3,000 measure Details Bookmark & Share
A Method for Determining Optimal Residential Energy Efficiency Packages This report describes an analysis method for determining optimal residential energy efficiency retrofit packages and, as an illustrative example, applies the analysis method to a 1960s-era home in eig Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series Volume 14 - HVAC: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners
This guide, which is part of a series of Best Practices guides produced by DOE’s Building America program, describes ways homeowners can reduce their energy costs and improve the comfort, health, and Details Bookmark & Share

Strategy Guideline: Advanced Construction Documentation Recommendations for High Performance Homes
As whole house energy efficiency increases, new materials and new systems require greater coordination and communication between industry stakeholders. This report presents four changes that are recom Details Bookmark & Share

Energy Savings Measure Packages: Existing Homes
This document presents the most cost effective Energy Savings Measure Packages (ESMP) for existing mixed-fuel and all electric homes to achieve 15% and 30% savings for each BetterBuildings grantee loc Details Bookmark & Share

National Residential Efficiency Measures Database Aimed at Reducing Risk for Residential Retrofit Industry
This technical highlight describes NREL research to develop a publicly available database of energy retrofit measures containing performance characteristics and cost estimates for nearly 3,000 measure Details Bookmark & Share

A Method for Determining Optimal Residential Energy Efficiency Packages
This report describes an analysis method for determining optimal residential energy efficiency retrofit packages and, as an illustrative example, applies the analysis method to a 1960s-era home in eig Details Bookmark & Share

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National Residential Efficiency Measures Database Aimed at Reducing Risk for Residential Retrofit Industry This technical highlight describes NREL research to develop a publicly available database of energy retrofit measures containing performance characteristics and cost estimates for nearly 3,000 measure Details Bookmark & Share
Technical Highlight: NREL Tests Integrated Heat Pump Water Heater Performance in Different Climates This technical highlight describes NREL tests to capture information about heat pump performance across a wide range of ambient conditions for five heat pump water heaters. Details Bookmark & Share
Technical Highlight: NREL Delivers In-Home HVAC Efficiency Testing Solutions Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have recently developed two simple in-home efficiency test methods that can be used by technicians, researchers, or interested homeowners Details Bookmark & Share
Technical Highlight: NREL Provides Guidance to Improve Thermal Comfort in High-Performance Homes This technical highlight describes NREL research to develop recommendations on HVAC system design and operating conditions to achieve optimal thermal comfort in high-performance homes. Details Bookmark & Share
Technical Highlight: NREL Evaluates the Thermal Performance of Uninsulated Walls to Improve the Accuracy of Building Energy Simulation Tools This technical highlight describes NREL research to develop models of uninsulated wall assemblies that help to improve the accuracy of building energy simulation tools when modeling potential energy s Details Bookmark & Share

Technical Highlight: NREL Tests Integrated Heat Pump Water Heater Performance in Different Climates
This technical highlight describes NREL tests to capture information about heat pump performance across a wide range of ambient conditions for five heat pump water heaters. Details Bookmark & Share

Technical Highlight: NREL Delivers In-Home HVAC Efficiency Testing Solutions
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have recently developed two simple in-home efficiency test methods that can be used by technicians, researchers, or interested homeowners Details Bookmark & Share

Technical Highlight: NREL Provides Guidance to Improve Thermal Comfort in High-Performance Homes
This technical highlight describes NREL research to develop recommendations on HVAC system design and operating conditions to achieve optimal thermal comfort in high-performance homes. Details Bookmark & Share

Technical Highlight: NREL Evaluates the Thermal Performance of Uninsulated Walls to Improve the Accuracy of Building Energy Simulation Tools
This technical highlight describes NREL research to develop models of uninsulated wall assemblies that help to improve the accuracy of building energy simulation tools when modeling potential energy s Details Bookmark & Share