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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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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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Occupant Behavior in Commercial Buildings: Synthetic Population, Co-Simulation with EnergyPlus and Agent Based Modeling

This technical manual serves as an outline of three separate research projects related to building energy performance modeling of occupant behavior, conducted at the Rutgers Center for Green Building (RCGB): a Synthetic Population project, a Co-Simulation of Synthetic Population w...

Andrews, C. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 26, 2016
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LET twin houses

Laboratory of Energy Technologies twin houses are fully instrumented identical all electric-cottages built to study the fundamentals of building energetics, validate building energy models and determine the impact of a technology or a strategy on energy consumption and power deman...

Team, M. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 14, 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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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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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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Brookfield Homes Passive House Performance Evaluation

TO4 3.1.3: Brookfield Homes Short-Term Results TO5 3.1.3: Brookfield Passive House Monitoring To further define its market position on high performance homebuilding, Brookfield worked with IBACOS and the Building America program to design and construct a Passive House (PH) certif...

Beach, R. et al Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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EcoVillage: A Net Zero Energy Ready Community Ithaca Crawlspace

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Building America team, Consortium for Residential Buildings (CARB), is working with the EcoVillage cohousing community in Ithaca, New York, on the Third Residential EcoVillage Experience neighborhood. This community-scale project consists of 4...

Arena, L. et al Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings

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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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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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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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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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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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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