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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
Air Sealing: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners – Volume 10 This guide provides information to contractors and homeowners to identify ways to seal unwanted air leaks in homes, while ensuring healthy levels of ventilation and avoiding indoor air pollution. 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: 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

Air Sealing: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners – Volume 10
This guide provides information to contractors and homeowners to identify ways to seal unwanted air leaks in homes, while ensuring healthy levels of ventilation and avoiding indoor air pollution. 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

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Developing an Energy Performance Modeling Startup Kit In 2011, the NAHB Research Center began assessing the needs and motivations of residential remodelers regarding energy performance remodeling. This report outlines: the current remodeling industry and Details Bookmark & Share
Housing Stock Characterization Study: An Innovative Approach to Measuring Retrofit Impact A residential energy efficiency retrofit loan program depends on a self-sustaining finance option and optimized retrofit measures that recoup their unsubsidized costs through energy bill savings alone Details Bookmark & Share
Byggmeister Test Home: Cold Climate Multifamily Masonry Building Condition Assessment and Retrofit Analysis This report describes a retrofit project undertaken by Building Science Corporation and partner Byggmeister on a multifamily brick row house located in Jamaica Plain, MA. This project studied the row Details Bookmark & Share
Moisture and Structural Analysis for High Performance Hybrid Wall Assemblies Based on past experience in the Building America program, BSC has found that combinations of materials and approaches—in other words, systems—usually provide optimum performance. Integration is necess Details Bookmark & Share
2012 Project Portfolio: Solid-State Lighting This report contains an overview of SSL projects currently funded by DOE, and those completed from 2003 through 2011. Details Bookmark & Share

Developing an Energy Performance Modeling Startup Kit
In 2011, the NAHB Research Center began assessing the needs and motivations of residential remodelers regarding energy performance remodeling. This report outlines: the current remodeling industry and Details Bookmark & Share

Housing Stock Characterization Study: An Innovative Approach to Measuring Retrofit Impact
A residential energy efficiency retrofit loan program depends on a self-sustaining finance option and optimized retrofit measures that recoup their unsubsidized costs through energy bill savings alone Details Bookmark & Share

Byggmeister Test Home: Cold Climate Multifamily Masonry Building Condition Assessment and Retrofit Analysis
This report describes a retrofit project undertaken by Building Science Corporation and partner Byggmeister on a multifamily brick row house located in Jamaica Plain, MA. This project studied the row Details Bookmark & Share

Moisture and Structural Analysis for High Performance Hybrid Wall Assemblies
Based on past experience in the Building America program, BSC has found that combinations of materials and approaches—in other words, systems—usually provide optimum performance. Integration is necess Details Bookmark & Share

2012 Project Portfolio: Solid-State Lighting
This report contains an overview of SSL projects currently funded by DOE, and those completed from 2003 through 2011. Details Bookmark & Share