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Measure Guideline: Managing the Drivers of Air Flow and Water Vapor Transport in Existing Single-Family Homes This document focuses on managing the driving forces that move air and moisture across the building envelope. While other previously published Measure Guidelines focus on elimination of air pathways, Details Bookmark & Share
Building America Best Practices Series Volume 14 - HVAC: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners This guide, which is part of a series of Best Practices guides produced by DOE’s Building America program, describes ways homeowners can reduce their energy costs and improve the comfort, health, and Details Bookmark & Share
Achieving Very High Efficiency and Net Zero Energy in an Existing Home in a Hot-Humid Climate: Long-Term Utility and Preliminary Monitoring Data This study summarizes the first six months of detailed data collected on a single family home that experienced a series of retrofits targeting reductions in energy use. The project was designed to dev Details Bookmark & Share
Energy Impacts of Nonlinear Behavior of PCM When Applied into Building Envelope Presented at the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 10th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference on July 23-26, 2012, this study analyzes the effects a Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Combination Forced-Air Space and Tankless Domestic Hot Water Heating Systems This document describes design and application guidance for combination space and tankless domestic hot water heating systems (combination systems) used in residential buildings, based on field evalua Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Managing the Drivers of Air Flow and Water Vapor Transport in Existing Single-Family Homes
This document focuses on managing the driving forces that move air and moisture across the building envelope. While other previously published Measure Guidelines focus on elimination of air pathways, Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series Volume 14 - HVAC: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners
This guide, which is part of a series of Best Practices guides produced by DOE’s Building America program, describes ways homeowners can reduce their energy costs and improve the comfort, health, and Details Bookmark & Share

Achieving Very High Efficiency and Net Zero Energy in an Existing Home in a Hot-Humid Climate: Long-Term Utility and Preliminary Monitoring Data
This study summarizes the first six months of detailed data collected on a single family home that experienced a series of retrofits targeting reductions in energy use. The project was designed to dev Details Bookmark & Share

Energy Impacts of Nonlinear Behavior of PCM When Applied into Building Envelope
Presented at the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 10th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference on July 23-26, 2012, this study analyzes the effects a Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Combination Forced-Air Space and Tankless Domestic Hot Water Heating Systems
This document describes design and application guidance for combination space and tankless domestic hot water heating systems (combination systems) used in residential buildings, based on field evalua Details Bookmark & Share

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Expert Meeting Report: Key Innovations for Adding Energy Efficiency to Maintenance Projects This report describes an expert meeting hosted by the Building America research team NAHB Research Center, which was held on February 8, 2012, in Orlando, Florida. The topic focused on efforts to incr Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Wall Air Sealing and Insulation Methods in Existing Homes; An Overview of Opportunity and Process This guide provides renovators and retrofit contractors an overview of considerations when including wall air sealing and insulation in an energy retrofit project. It also outlines the potential proj Details Bookmark & Share
Whole-House Design and Commissioning in the Project Home Again Hot-Humid New Construction Community Building Science Corporation has been working with Project Home Again since 2008 and has consulted on the design of around 100 affordable, energy efficient new construction homes for victims of hurric Details Bookmark & Share
Measured Performance of Occupied, Side-by-Side, South Texas Homes The performance of three homes in San Antonio, Texas with identical floor plans and orientation were evaluated through a partnership between the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), CPS Energy, and Woo Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Transitioning to a Tankless Water Heater This measure guideline provides information to help residential builders and retrofitters with the design, specification, selection, implementation, installation, and maintenance issues of transitioni Details Bookmark & Share

Expert Meeting Report: Key Innovations for Adding Energy Efficiency to Maintenance Projects
This report describes an expert meeting hosted by the Building America research team NAHB Research Center, which was held on February 8, 2012, in Orlando, Florida. The topic focused on efforts to incr Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Wall Air Sealing and Insulation Methods in Existing Homes; An Overview of Opportunity and Process
This guide provides renovators and retrofit contractors an overview of considerations when including wall air sealing and insulation in an energy retrofit project. It also outlines the potential proj Details Bookmark & Share

Whole-House Design and Commissioning in the Project Home Again Hot-Humid New Construction Community
Building Science Corporation has been working with Project Home Again since 2008 and has consulted on the design of around 100 affordable, energy efficient new construction homes for victims of hurric Details Bookmark & Share

Measured Performance of Occupied, Side-by-Side, South Texas Homes
The performance of three homes in San Antonio, Texas with identical floor plans and orientation were evaluated through a partnership between the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), CPS Energy, and Woo Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Transitioning to a Tankless Water Heater
This measure guideline provides information to help residential builders and retrofitters with the design, specification, selection, implementation, installation, and maintenance issues of transitioni Details Bookmark & Share