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Building America Best Practices Series - High-Performance Home Technologies: Guide to Determining Climate Regions by County This report identifies the climate region of each county in the United States. The report is intended as an aid in helping builders to identify the appropriate climate designation for the counties in Details Bookmark & Share
Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 3; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Cold and Very Cold Climates The guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the cold and very co Details Bookmark & Share
Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 1; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Hot and Humid Climate This Building America Best Practices guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and wate Details Bookmark & Share
DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study: Montlake Modern - Seattle, Washington This case study describes a DOE Zero Energy Ready Home in Seattle, WA, that scored HERS 42 without PV and a -1 with PV. This 3,192 ft2 custom home has 6-inch SIP walls, a 12-inch SIP roof, an R-28 ICF Details Bookmark & Share
Construction Guide to Next-Generation High-Performance Walls in Climate Zones 3-5 - Part 2: 2x4 Walls Part 2 of this Construction Guide to High-Performance Walls in Climate Zones 3-5 provides straightforward and cost-effective strategies to construct durable, energy-efficient walls. It addresses walls Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series - High-Performance Home Technologies: Guide to Determining Climate Regions by County
This report identifies the climate region of each county in the United States. The report is intended as an aid in helping builders to identify the appropriate climate designation for the counties in Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 3; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Cold and Very Cold Climates
The guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the cold and very co Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 1; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Hot and Humid Climate
This Building America Best Practices guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and wate Details Bookmark & Share

DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Case Study: Montlake Modern - Seattle, Washington
This case study describes a DOE Zero Energy Ready Home in Seattle, WA, that scored HERS 42 without PV and a -1 with PV. This 3,192 ft2 custom home has 6-inch SIP walls, a 12-inch SIP roof, an R-28 ICF Details Bookmark & Share

Construction Guide to Next-Generation High-Performance Walls in Climate Zones 3-5 - Part 2: 2x4 Walls
Part 2 of this Construction Guide to High-Performance Walls in Climate Zones 3-5 provides straightforward and cost-effective strategies to construct durable, energy-efficient walls. It addresses walls Details Bookmark & Share

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2019 Lighting R&D Opportunities BTO’s Lighting R&D Opportunities is updated annually and covers foundational R&D needs for lighting technology and lighting application understanding that will result in maximum energy savings while a Details Bookmark & Share
Lumen and Chromaticity Maintenance Behavior of LED Packages Based on LM-80 Data This report assesses four major LED package platforms used in SSL applications for luminous flux and chromaticity maintenance by analyzing data sets from LM-80 testing of representative products from Details Bookmark & Share
Round 3 Update of Stress Testing Results for Organic Light-Emitting Diode Panels and Luminaires Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) sources are a potential solid-state lighting technology for use in indoor lighting applications. Some of the advantages offered by OLEDs include thin profiles, low Details Bookmark & Share
Specifying Calibration of Energy Measuring Equipment A report on calibrating energy-measuring equipment to maximize energy efficiency of lighting and other systems. The report describes best practices for accrediting calibration laboratories and for cal Details Bookmark & Share
An Authentication Vulnerability Assessment of Connected Lighting Systems Emerging connected lighting systems (CLS) that incorporate distributed intelligence, network interfaces, and sensors can become data-collection platforms that enable a wide range of valuable new capab Details Bookmark & Share

2019 Lighting R&D Opportunities
BTO’s Lighting R&D Opportunities is updated annually and covers foundational R&D needs for lighting technology and lighting application understanding that will result in maximum energy savings while a Details Bookmark & Share

Lumen and Chromaticity Maintenance Behavior of LED Packages Based on LM-80 Data
This report assesses four major LED package platforms used in SSL applications for luminous flux and chromaticity maintenance by analyzing data sets from LM-80 testing of representative products from Details Bookmark & Share

Round 3 Update of Stress Testing Results for Organic Light-Emitting Diode Panels and Luminaires
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) sources are a potential solid-state lighting technology for use in indoor lighting applications. Some of the advantages offered by OLEDs include thin profiles, low Details Bookmark & Share

Specifying Calibration of Energy Measuring Equipment
A report on calibrating energy-measuring equipment to maximize energy efficiency of lighting and other systems. The report describes best practices for accrediting calibration laboratories and for cal Details Bookmark & Share

An Authentication Vulnerability Assessment of Connected Lighting Systems
Emerging connected lighting systems (CLS) that incorporate distributed intelligence, network interfaces, and sensors can become data-collection platforms that enable a wide range of valuable new capab Details Bookmark & Share