Projects
NREL's building research projects focus on developing, integrating, and demonstrating advanced energy saving building technologies, materials, design and construction processes. Our research projects cover a broad range within the residential and commercial building industry, including fundamental research to overcome key technical barriers, analysis to identify the most promising energy saving opportunities, partnering with industry to accelerate adoption of best practices into the marketplace, monitoring and evaluation of buildings and their components, and participating in the development of consistent codes and standards.
Our research supports the U.S. Department of Energy's goal to create marketable zero energy buildings by 2025. That means zero energy buildings (buildings that produce as much energy as they consume) will become common practice among both large-scale home builders and commercial builders by 2025.
