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The Van Geet home near Denver, Colorado, demonstrates the successful integration of energy conservation measures and renewable energy supply in a beautiful, comfortable, energyefficient, 295-m2 (3,176-ft2 ) off-grid home in a cold, sunny climate. Features include a tight enve...

Wonderland Development has constructed a new “near zero energy” row home design in North Boulder consisting of 9 units: one 5-plex and two duplexes. NREL has performed short-term tests and installed long-term monitoring equipment in three of these units. Two of these units use...

IBACOS anticipates that houses achieving 50% whole-house source energy savings with respect to the Building America 2010 Benchmark (Hendron and Engebrecht 2010) will be “low load.” Low load is defined by IBACOS as a house with a thermal enclosure that yields a maximum space...

Case study of Shaw Construction who worked with Building America research partner Building Science Corporation to design affordable HERS-54 townhouses with central solar radiator space heating, PV, R-28 closed-cell spray foam under slab and R-26 in advanced framed walls, and rigid...

. Gold Medallion Homes is constructing Building America homes in the Daybreak community in South Jordan, Utah. The first of these homes, located at 10742 Indigo Sky Way, will be the focus of this evaluation. Gold Medallion Homes is committed to working with BIRA to assist through ...

This Dataset contains field research raw data, analysis spreadsheet, photos, and final report from the Hathaway Solar Patriot House Building America Case Study project. This dataset details the monitored and modeled performance of a solar home outside of Washington, D.C. We model...

This dataset is the project results from field research on one Building America home in the Alys Beach community. The beach side community of Alys Beach was built by Wave Construction in north Florida using hurricane resistant construction, while incorporating energy efficient ...

Two high-performance prototype houses were built in Carbondale, Colorado, as part of the US Department of Energy?s Building America (BA) Program. Each prototype was a 1256 ft2 (117 m2), one-story, three-bedroom house and met the local requirements for affordable housing. The autho...

The design of this 1,280-square-foot, three-bedroom Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver zero energy home carefully combines envelope efficiency, efficient equipment, appliances and lighting, and passive and active solar features to reach the zero energy goal. The home was designe...

ZETA Communities is a startup company that has a mission of building energy efficient and/or net zero modular houses at costs competitive with local construction. They recently completed their first prototype, the live-work townhome: an infill project located in a mixed indust...

Introducing the market to high-performance green building on Hilton Head Island Coastal Habitats constructed a series of Building America (BA) homes at the Bryant Park community in Hilton Head, SC. Based on analysis by Building Science Corporation (BSC), the homes were expected t...

This document can also be found at https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/54009.pdf One of the homes that was part of Sacramento Municipal Utility District?s (SMUD) Energy Efficiency Retrofit Demonstration (EERD) project was a 1980?s era home in Fair Oaks, California , referred to ...