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The Performance House: A Cold Climate Challenge Home - Old Greenwich

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Working with builder partners on test homes allows for vetting of whole-house building strategies to eliminate any potential unintended consequences prior to implementing these solution packages on a production scale. To support this research, the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings partnered with Preferred Builders Inc. on a high performance test home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The philosophy and science behind the 2,700 ft2 Performance House were based on the premise that homes should be safe, healthy, comfortable, durable, efficient, and adapt with the homeowners. The technologies and strategies used in the Performance House were not cutting-edge, but simply best practices practiced. The focus was on simplicity in construction, maintenance, and operation. When seeking a 30% source energy savings targets over a comparable 2009 International Energy Conservation Code-built home in the cold climate zone, nearly all components of a home must be optimized. Careful planning and design are critical.
The Performance House demonstrates how a home can be designed and constructed in the cold climate zone to be energy efficient, low maintenance, sustainable, and comfortable. Lower price premiums are still needed for solutions such as ccSPF and light-emitting diodes, but this is anticipated as their market demand increases. For a solution package of this level to become commercially viable, there is still a need to improve the home appraisal process to better value the multiple benefits of a solution package of this type over standard builder practices.

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TY - DATA AB - Working with builder partners on test homes allows for vetting of whole-house building strategies to eliminate any potential unintended consequences prior to implementing these solution packages on a production scale. To support this research, the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings partnered with Preferred Builders Inc. on a high performance test home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The philosophy and science behind the 2,700 ft2 Performance House were based on the premise that homes should be safe, healthy, comfortable, durable, efficient, and adapt with the homeowners. The technologies and strategies used in the Performance House were not cutting-edge, but simply best practices practiced. The focus was on simplicity in construction, maintenance, and operation. When seeking a 30% source energy savings targets over a comparable 2009 International Energy Conservation Code-built home in the cold climate zone, nearly all components of a home must be optimized. Careful planning and design are critical. The Performance House demonstrates how a home can be designed and constructed in the cold climate zone to be energy efficient, low maintenance, sustainable, and comfortable. Lower price premiums are still needed for solutions such as ccSPF and light-emitting diodes, but this is anticipated as their market demand increases. For a solution package of this level to become commercially viable, there is still a need to improve the home appraisal process to better value the multiple benefits of a solution package of this type over standard builder practices. AU - Williamson, Jim A2 - Puttagunta, Sriknath A3 - Grab, J DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - 10.25984/2204242 KW - building america KW - Challenge Home KW - LED Lighting KW - accessibility KW - condensing boiler KW - energy star KW - hydro-coil heating KW - residential KW - watersense indoor airplus KW - cold KW - whole-home KW - exterior insulation KW - new construction KW - single family detached KW - BuildingAmerica KW - closed-cell spray foam insulation LA - English DA - 2016/04/27 PY - 2016 PB - Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings T1 - The Performance House: A Cold Climate Challenge Home - Old Greenwich UR - https://doi.org/10.25984/2204242 ER -
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Williamson, Jim, et al. The Performance House: A Cold Climate Challenge Home - Old Greenwich. Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings, 27 April, 2016, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/2204242.
Williamson, J., Puttagunta, S., & Grab, J. (2016). The Performance House: A Cold Climate Challenge Home - Old Greenwich. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings. https://doi.org/10.25984/2204242
Williamson, Jim, Sriknath Puttagunta, and J Grab. The Performance House: A Cold Climate Challenge Home - Old Greenwich. Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings, April, 27, 2016. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/2204242
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The Performance House demonstrates how a home can be designed and constructed in the cold climate zone to be energy efficient, low maintenance, sustainable, and comfortable. Lower price premiums are still needed for solutions such as ccSPF and light-emitting diodes, but this is anticipated as their market demand increases. For a solution package of this level to become commercially viable, there is still a need to improve the home appraisal process to better value the multiple benefits of a solution package of this type over standard builder practices.}, url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/5192}, year = {2016}, howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings, https://doi.org/10.25984/2204242}, note = {Accessed: 2025-05-06}, doi = {10.25984/2204242} }
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Submitted Apr 27, 2016

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Steven Winter Associates of the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings

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Sriknath Puttagunta

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Jim Williamson

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Sriknath Puttagunta

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J Grab

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Project Name Building America

Project Number FY14 AOP 1.9.1.19

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