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Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 4; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Mixed-Humid Climate This 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 mixed-humid cli Details Bookmark & Share
Field Assessment of Energy Audit Tools for Retrofit Programs This project focused on the use of home energy ratings as a tool to promote energy retrofits in existing homes. A home energy rating provides a quantitative appraisal of a home’s energy performance, u Details Bookmark & Share
Efficient Lighting Strategies: Wise Design Choices Can Meet Lighting Needs and Save Energy. Building Technologies Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Fact sheet for homeowners and contractors on how to employ efficient lighting strategies in the home for comfort and safety. Details Bookmark & Share
Comparison of Home Retrofit Programs in Wisconsin To explore ways to reduce customer barriers and increase home retrofit completions, several different existing home retrofit models have been implemented in the state of Wisconsin. This study compared Details Bookmark & Share
EcoVillage Cleveland at 58th St., Cleveland, Ohio EcoVillage Cleveland works under the Building America premise that high performance homes must be sustainable both environmentally and economically. Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 4; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Mixed-Humid Climate
This 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 mixed-humid cli Details Bookmark & Share

Field Assessment of Energy Audit Tools for Retrofit Programs
This project focused on the use of home energy ratings as a tool to promote energy retrofits in existing homes. A home energy rating provides a quantitative appraisal of a home’s energy performance, u Details Bookmark & Share

Efficient Lighting Strategies: Wise Design Choices Can Meet Lighting Needs and Save Energy. Building Technologies Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Fact sheet for homeowners and contractors on how to employ efficient lighting strategies in the home for comfort and safety. Details Bookmark & Share

Comparison of Home Retrofit Programs in Wisconsin
To explore ways to reduce customer barriers and increase home retrofit completions, several different existing home retrofit models have been implemented in the state of Wisconsin. This study compared Details Bookmark & Share

EcoVillage Cleveland at 58th St., Cleveland, Ohio
EcoVillage Cleveland works under the Building America premise that high performance homes must be sustainable both environmentally and economically. Details Bookmark & Share

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Aerosol Envelope Sealing of New Residences This project investigated the use of an aerosol-based sealing method to reduce air leakage of new homes in the United States. The process involves pressurizing the building while dispersing an aerosol Details Bookmark & Share
An Approach to High-Performance Affordable Housing Using Point-Source Space Conditioning This project explored the use of minisplit ductless heat pumps in combination with small through-wall transfer fans to provide space conditioning in small single-story homes including manufactured hom Details Bookmark & Share
Smart Ventilation Controls Boost Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality The average American household spends more than $2,200 a year on energy, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) costs comprise nearly half of the bill. This is one reason why home buil Details Bookmark & Share
Extended Plate Wall System Expands Adoption of High-R Envelope Solutions For decades, the residential building industry has worked to expand opportunities to increase the thermal resistance of walls. Multiple high-R wall construction methods have been developed, yet market Details Bookmark & Share
Novel, Simplified Air Delivery System Design Gets Commercialized Typical air delivery systems require contractors to design systems that are complex, difficult to integrate into the framing and structural components of a home, and often do not meet the optimization Details Bookmark & Share

Aerosol Envelope Sealing of New Residences
This project investigated the use of an aerosol-based sealing method to reduce air leakage of new homes in the United States. The process involves pressurizing the building while dispersing an aerosol Details Bookmark & Share

An Approach to High-Performance Affordable Housing Using Point-Source Space Conditioning
This project explored the use of minisplit ductless heat pumps in combination with small through-wall transfer fans to provide space conditioning in small single-story homes including manufactured hom Details Bookmark & Share

Smart Ventilation Controls Boost Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality
The average American household spends more than $2,200 a year on energy, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) costs comprise nearly half of the bill. This is one reason why home buil Details Bookmark & Share

Extended Plate Wall System Expands Adoption of High-R Envelope Solutions
For decades, the residential building industry has worked to expand opportunities to increase the thermal resistance of walls. Multiple high-R wall construction methods have been developed, yet market Details Bookmark & Share

Novel, Simplified Air Delivery System Design Gets Commercialized
Typical air delivery systems require contractors to design systems that are complex, difficult to integrate into the framing and structural components of a home, and often do not meet the optimization Details Bookmark & Share