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Comparative Performance of Four Prototype Mechanical Systems in a Desert Climate
Data and result of approximately fifteen months of monitoring of four houses located in the desert climate of Borrego Springs, California. Four houses were constructed using identical floor plans but differing wall materials, and different cooling systems that were designed to red...
Springer, D. et al Davis Energy
Jul 20, 2016
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Approaches to 30% Energy Savings at the Community Scale in the Hot-Humid Climate
The Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction, formerly the Building America Industrialized Housing Partnership, has worked with several community-scale builders within the hot-humid climate zone to improve performance of production-, or community-scale, h...
Beal, D. et al University of Central Florida Florida Solar Energy Center
Apr 27, 2016
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Community-Scale Attic Retrofit and Home Energy Upgrade Data Mining Hot Dry Climate
Retrofitting is an essential element of any comprehensive strategy for improving residential energy efficiency. The residential retrofit market is still developing, and program managers must develop innovative strategies to increase uptake and promote economies of scale. Residenti...
Jackson, J. et al Davis Energy
Apr 27, 2016
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Advancing Replicable Solutions for High-Performance Homes in the Southeast JMC Patrick Square
The work presented in this report advances the goals of the U.S. Department of Energy Building America program by improving the energy peformance of affordable and market-rate housing. Southface Energy Institute (Southface), part of the U.S. Department of Energy Building America r...
Sweet, M. et al Southface
Apr 27, 2016
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NorthernSTAR Project Overcoat: Exterior Insulation Strategies for 1.5-Story Roof Applications in Cold Climates
This is a repository for all NorthernSTAR Overcoat insulation retrofit projects. Both houses received Overcoat insulation retrofit on roof only, performed by Cocoon Insulation.
1 St. Louis Park house St. Louis Park, MN
2 Edina house Edina, MN
In this second study, the team wishe...
Jacobson, R. et al University of Minnesota NorthernSTAR Building America Partnership
Apr 27, 2016
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New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Exterior Building Solutions To Insulation
TO4 8.2.2: Space Cond. for Deep Energy Retrofits
The purpose of this project for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is to find new or improved strategies for exterior building solutions in regard to insulation that will provide extensive energy...
Beach, R. et al Ibacos Innovation
Apr 27, 2016
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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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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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Raleigh Housing Authority Duct Sealing Evaluation
In multifamily and attached buildings, manual duct sealing methods are often impractical or very costly and disruptive because of the difficulty in accessing leakage sites. In this project, two retrofit duct sealing techniques manually applied sealants and injecting a spray sealan...
Dentz, J. et al The Levy Partnership, Inc Systems Building Research Alliance
Apr 27, 2016
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Mini-Split Heat Pump Evaluation and Zero Energy Ready Home Support
This project was created from a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Building America research team, IBACOS, Inc., and a production builder of high-performance homes called Imagine Homes, which is located in San Antonio, Texas-a hot-humid climate. The primar...
Rapport, A. and Herk, A. Ibacos Innovation
Apr 27, 2016
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Thermostatic Radiator Valve Evaluation and Demonstration
A large stock of multifamily buildings in the Northeast and Midwest uses hot water or steam for space heating. Typically, residents do not pay for heat directly (i.e., heating fuel serves a central plant and use is not submetered). Losses from these systems are typically high, and...
Dentz, J. and Ansanelli, E. The Levy Partnership, Inc Systems Building Research Alliance
Apr 27, 2016
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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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Evaluation of Early Performance Results for Massachusetts Homes in the National Grid Pilot Deep Energy Retrofit Program
In 2009, National Grid started a DER pilot program that offered technical support and financial incentives to qualified Massachusetts homeowners who planned and successfully completed a retrofit that incorporated the performance requirements and goals of the National Grid DER meas...
Neuhauser, K. and Gates, C. Building Science Corporation
Apr 27, 2016
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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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Evaluation of the Performance of Houses With and Without Supplemental Dehumidification in a Hot-Humid Climate
Understanding indoor humidity conditions in low energy homes in hot-humid climates is critical to promoting long term occupant comfort, indoor air quality and building durability. The results of this study were expected to inform the residential building community on whether suppl...
Kerrigan, P. and Norton, P. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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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Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy Challenge Home Program Certification of Production Builders Chicago, IL and Devens, MA
TO4 Task 3.1 K Hovnanian Chicago, IL
DOE Challenge Home Program Certified
Home Constructed and Verified
Specifications
DOE Challenge Home
Building envelope
Ceiling R-49 blown fiberglass, Grade I
Walls 2x4 framing @ 16 o.c. with R-13 fiberglass batts, Grade I
and 1"" R-5 extrude...
Loomis, H. and Kerrigan, P. Building Science Corporation
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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Comfort in High-Performance Homes in a Hot-Humid Climate
TO5 2.3.2: Large-Scale Temperature Study
Although space-conditioning systems are required to meet standards such as those in the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) Manual RS (Rutkowski 1997) and the ASHRAE Standard 55 (ASHRAE 2013) comfort criteria, little is known ab...
Poerschke, A. and Beach, R. Ibacos Innovation
Apr 27, 2016
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Field Testing of an Unvented Roof with Fibrous Insulation, Tiles, and Vapor Diffusion Venting
BSC TO5 Task 2.5 Field Testing of an Un-vented Roof with Fibrous Insulation and Tiles Winter Park, FL 32789
Field test data available for wood moisture contents, temperature, and relative humidity.
Un-vented roofs (aka cathedral-ized attics) are an established presence in Florida...
Ueno, K. and Lstiburek, J. Building Science Corporation
Apr 27, 2016
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Measure Guideline: Deep Energy Enclosure Retrofit for Interior Insulation of Masonry Walls and Flat Roofs
Measure Guideline: Deep Energy Enclosure Retrofit for Zero Energy Ready House Flat Roofs
BSC TO5 Task 7.4 Deep Energy Enclosure Retrofit (DEER) for Interior Insulation of Masonry Walls
Lawrence, MA 01840
This Measure Guideline describes a deep energy enclosure retrofit solution ...
Musunuru, S. et al Building Science Corporation
Apr 27, 2016
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Calculation Tool for Transported Geothermal Energy Using Two-Step Absorption Process
This spreadsheet allows the user to calculate parameters relevant to techno-economic performance of a two-step absorption process to transport low temperature geothermal heat some distance (1-20 miles) for use in building air conditioning. The parameters included are (1) energy de...
Liu, X. et al Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Feb 01, 2016
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Newberry Combined Gravity 2016
Newberry combined gravity from Zonge Int'l, processed for the EGS stimulation project at well 55-29. Includes data from both Davenport 2006 collection and for OSU/4D EGS monitoring 2012 collection.
Locations are NAD83, UTM Zone 10 North, meters. Elevation is NAVD88.
Gravity in ...
Rose, K. National Energy Technology Laboratory
Jan 22, 2016
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Air Pollutant Emissions Inventory of Large-Scale Production of Selected Biofuels Feedstocks in 2022 supporting data
Data provided are numeric results used to plot the maps/figures presented in the paper “Air Pollutant Emissions Inventory of Large-Scale Production of Selected Biofuels Feedstocks in 2022” ([DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1620](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bbb.1620/full)).
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Zhang, Y. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oct 05, 2015
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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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