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Analysis of Pre-Retrofit Building and Utility Data Southeast United States

TO4 9.1.2: Comm. Scale Military Housing Upgrades This project delves into the workflow and results of regression models on monthly and daily utility data (meter readings of electricity consumption), outlining a process for screening and gathering useful results from inverse model...

Beach, R. and Prahl, D. Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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Observations and Lessons Learned in Residential Roofing Integrated Photovoltaics

The data file includes field observations of residential roofing integrated photovoltaics installation that happened between July 2021 and June 2022 in California. There are 21 observations 2 in the re-roofing category and 19 in the new construction category. The file include...

Cook and JenaNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 15, 2023
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DOE Challenge Home Multifamily Development Mixed Climate

The U.S. Department of Energys Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) recognition program builds upon the building science requirements of ENERGY STAR Certified Homes, Version 3 and best practices tested by the Building America research and demonstration program. Multifamily units (units i...

Dentz, J. and Alaigh, K. The Levy Partnership, Inc Systems Building Research Alliance

Apr 27, 2016
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Air Leakage and Air Transfer Between Garage and Living Space

This research project focused on evaluation of air transfer between the garage and living space in a single-family detached home constructed by a production homebuilder in compliance with the 2009 International Residential Code and the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code. ...

Rudd, A. and Kerrigan, P. Advanced Building Systems

Apr 27, 2016
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Spray Foam Exterior Insulation with Stand-Off Furring New York

IBACOS and Green Homes America 1 (GHA) collaborated with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Advanced Buildings Program to research a variation of a commercial curtain wall assembly for residential construction as part of a comprehensive whole-ho...

Rapport, A. et al Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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Moisture Risk in Unvented Attics Due to Air Leakage Paths Minneapolis Minnesota

IBACOS completed an initial analysis of moisture damage potential in an unvented attic insulated with closed-cell spray polyurethane foam. To complete this analysis, the research team collected field data, used computational fluid dynamics to quantify the airflow rates through ind...

Rapport, A. et al Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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One year occupant behavior/environment data for medium U.S. office

One year of longitudinal data (fifteen minute interval) on local thermal conditions, related behaviors, and comfort of twenty-four occupants of a medium-sized office building in Philadelphia, PA. Please cite: Langevin, J., Gurian, P.L., and Wen, J. (2015). Tracking the human...

Langevin, J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jul 20, 2015
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Performance and Costs of Ductless Heat Pumps in Marine-Climate High-Performance Homes Habitat for Humanity The Woods

The Washington State University (WSU) Energy Program's Building America (BA) team conducted a case study of a high-performance affordable housing community: The Woods (Figure 1). This BA effort is part of a larger-scale study of 30 homes funded from 2013-2016 by Tacoma Public Util...

Lubliner, M. et al Washington State University

Apr 27, 2016
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Field Testing of Compartmentalization Methods for Multifamily Construction Washington DC

BSC TO5 Task 2.1 Field Testing of Compartmentalization Methods for Multifamily Construction Capitol Heights, MD 20743 A building comprising five vertical townhome units was built in the Washington, D.C., area; the townhomes were three-story slab-on-grade units (1700-2000 ft2) wit...

Ueno, K. and Lstiburek, J. Building Science Corporation

Apr 27, 2016
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Sacramento Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) Home Study

This project was part of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) Project which included several other homes in addition to the the subject of this study. Some of the reports and presentations included in this dataset cover the whole DER project....

Keesee, M. Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Aug 10, 2016
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Public Housing: A Tailored Approach to Energy Retrofits Raleigh

More than 1 million U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-supported public housing units provide rental housing for eligible low-income families across the country. These units range from scattered single-family houses to high-rise apartments. In this project, the Advan...

Dentz, J. et al The Levy Partnership, Inc Systems Building Research Alliance

Apr 27, 2016
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Multifamily Programmable Thermostat Data

This data set, compiled by the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, includes long-term 10-minute temperature and relative humidity data, and HVAC system state data for 79 apartments in a low-income housing complex in Revere, MA. The monitoring period spans two winters...

Urban, B. et al Fraunhofer USA

Jul 27, 2015
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Mass Customization of Prefabricated Panel Blocks for Deep Wall Insulation Retrofits

The project this data comes from looks to make building wall retrofits less expensive and easier to install by using exterior insulating panels. This is done to make buildings more energy efficient without expensive wall retrofits or reconstruction. The "Measurement and Verificati...

Sharon, A. et al Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation CMI

Dec 14, 2021
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Measured Performance of a Varied Airflow Small-Diameter Duct System

In this study, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America team IBACOS built on research previously done in two new-construction unoccupied test houses-one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Poerschke and Stecher 2014) and one in Fresno, California (Stecher and Poe...

Poerschke, A. Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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Simplified Space Conditioning in Low-Load Homes

TO3 2.1.6: Simplified Space Conditioning IBACOS anticipates that houses achieving 50% whole-house source energy savings with respect to the Building America 2010 Benchmark (Hendron and Engebrecht 2010a) will be considered "low load." Low load is defined by IBACOS as a house with ...

Poerschke, A. and Stecher, D. Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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Mechanical Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Recently Constructed U.S. Homes in Marine and Cold-Dry Climates Data from Building America Project

Data were collected to characterize whole-house mechanical ventilation (WHMV) and indoor air quality (IAQ) in 55 homes in the Marine climate of Oregon and Cold-Dry climate of Colorado in the U.S. Sixteen homes were monitored for two weeks, with and without WHMV operating. Ventilat...

Zhao, H. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mar 22, 2023
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LBNL Fault Detection and Diagnostics Datasets

These datasets can be used to evaluate and benchmark the performance accuracy of Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) algorithms or tools. It contains operational data from simulation, laboratory experiments, and field measurements from real buildings for seven HVAC systems/equip...

Granderson, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Aug 01, 2022
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Commercial Reference Building: Small Office

Commercial reference buildings provide complete descriptions for whole building energy analysis using EnergyPlus (see "About EnergyPlus" resource link) simulation software. Included here is data pertaining to the reference building type "Small Office" for each of the 16 climate zo...