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Building America (BA) partner McStain Neighborhoods built the Discovery House in Loveland, Colorado, with an extensive package of energy-efficient features, including a high-performance envelope, efficient mechanical systems, a solar water heater integrated with the space-heating ...

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...

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...

In November 2009, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in cooperation with Boulder County Housing Authority (BCHA) began installing instrumentation in the three prototype homes in order to evaluate the performance of these three homes which incorporate highly insulated ...

This dataset presents summary information related to world solar energy. It is part of a supporting dataset for the book World On the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse by Lester R. Brown, available from the [Earth Policy Institute](http://www.earth-policy.or...

Note: This dataset has been superseded by the dataset found at "End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock" (submission 4520; linked in the submission resources), which is a comprehensive and validated representation of hourly load profiles in the U.S. commercial and reside...

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 includes processed data from the Lab Homes (LH) Test Facility located on the PNNL campus in Richland, WA. This a set of 2 identical homes that allow for the side-by-side comparison/performance evaluation of different technologies under the same weather at any given ti...

### DESIGN D-0000001048 * Description: * House Count: 0 * Last Update: 2013-09-06 * Last Updated By: Srikanth Puttagunta * Notes: BAFDR System Generated Note (Fri Sep 06 10:28:54 MDT 2013: This design created as part of bulk import process for attachment Conway unit 12.xml.

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...

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...

Solar thermal devices use direct heat from the sun, concentrating it in some manner to produce heat at useful temperatures. The modern solar industry began with the oil embargo of 1973-1974 and was strengthened with the second embargo in 1979. The growth of the solar industr...