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Strategy Guideline: Accurate Heating and Cooling Load Calculations This guide presents the key criteria required to create accurate heating and cooling load calculations and offers examples of the implications when inaccurate adjustments are applied to the HVAC desig Details Bookmark & Share
Retrofit of Blown Attic Insulation in Existing HUD-Code Manufactured Homes: Needs Assessment Report This needs assessment was conducted by the Washington State University (WSU) Energy Program and Building Science Corporation (BSC), with support from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Building Tec Details Bookmark & Share
Heating and Cooling Equipment Selection. Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) Technology Fact Sheet This fact sheet helps people choose the correct equipment for heating and cooling to reduce initial costs, increase homeowner comfort, increase operating efficiency, and greatly reduce utility costs. Details Bookmark & Share
Guide to Financing EnergySmart Schools This guide addresses barriers to and methods of financing energy-efficient schools, and makes a business case for high-performance design. Details Bookmark & Share
Durable Airtightness in Single-Family Dwellings: Field Measurements and Analysis Durability of the building envelope is important to new homes that are increasingly built with improved levels of airtightness. It is also important to weatherized homes such that energy savings from Details Bookmark & Share

Strategy Guideline: Accurate Heating and Cooling Load Calculations
This guide presents the key criteria required to create accurate heating and cooling load calculations and offers examples of the implications when inaccurate adjustments are applied to the HVAC desig Details Bookmark & Share

Retrofit of Blown Attic Insulation in Existing HUD-Code Manufactured Homes: Needs Assessment Report
This needs assessment was conducted by the Washington State University (WSU) Energy Program and Building Science Corporation (BSC), with support from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Building Tec Details Bookmark & Share

Heating and Cooling Equipment Selection. Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) Technology Fact Sheet
This fact sheet helps people choose the correct equipment for heating and cooling to reduce initial costs, increase homeowner comfort, increase operating efficiency, and greatly reduce utility costs. Details Bookmark & Share

Guide to Financing EnergySmart Schools
This guide addresses barriers to and methods of financing energy-efficient schools, and makes a business case for high-performance design. Details Bookmark & Share

Durable Airtightness in Single-Family Dwellings: Field Measurements and Analysis
Durability of the building envelope is important to new homes that are increasingly built with improved levels of airtightness. It is also important to weatherized homes such that energy savings from Details Bookmark & Share

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Retrofit of Blown Attic Insulation in Existing HUD-Code Manufactured Homes: Needs Assessment Report This needs assessment was conducted by the Washington State University (WSU) Energy Program and Building Science Corporation (BSC), with support from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Building Tec Details Bookmark & Share
Accelerated Stress Testing Results on Single-Channel and Multichannel Drivers: Final Report Drivers used to operate light-emitting diode (LED) loads form an integral part of the solid-state lighting (SSL) system. While understanding of LED failure modes such as luminous flux depreciation and Details Bookmark & Share
DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study HIA 2016: Thrive Home Builders, Hyland Village, Denver, CO Case study of a DOE 2016 Housing Innovation Award winning production home in a cold climate that got a HERS 28 with PV, with 2x4 double-wall framing, an insulated basement, an R-50 vented attic, a cen Details Bookmark & Share
DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study HIA 2016: TC Legend Homes, 19th Ave., Bellingham, WA Case study of a DOE 2016 Housing Innovation Award winning custom home in a marine climate that got a HERS -2 with PV, with SIPs taped at all exterior joints, an ICF foundation walls, and an air-to-wat Details Bookmark & Share
DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study HIA 2016: Sunroc Homes, Morton Road, Lakeland, FL Case study of a DOE 2016 Housing Innovation Award winning affordable home in a hot humid climate that got a HERS 48 without PV, with foam-filled concrete block walls with exterior rigid foam, a vented Details Bookmark & Share

Accelerated Stress Testing Results on Single-Channel and Multichannel Drivers: Final Report
Drivers used to operate light-emitting diode (LED) loads form an integral part of the solid-state lighting (SSL) system. While understanding of LED failure modes such as luminous flux depreciation and Details Bookmark & Share

DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study HIA 2016: Thrive Home Builders, Hyland Village, Denver, CO
Case study of a DOE 2016 Housing Innovation Award winning production home in a cold climate that got a HERS 28 with PV, with 2x4 double-wall framing, an insulated basement, an R-50 vented attic, a cen Details Bookmark & Share

DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study HIA 2016: TC Legend Homes, 19th Ave., Bellingham, WA
Case study of a DOE 2016 Housing Innovation Award winning custom home in a marine climate that got a HERS -2 with PV, with SIPs taped at all exterior joints, an ICF foundation walls, and an air-to-wat Details Bookmark & Share

DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study HIA 2016: Sunroc Homes, Morton Road, Lakeland, FL
Case study of a DOE 2016 Housing Innovation Award winning affordable home in a hot humid climate that got a HERS 48 without PV, with foam-filled concrete block walls with exterior rigid foam, a vented Details Bookmark & Share