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Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 1; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Hot and Humid Climate This Building America Best Practices guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and wate  Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 2; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Hot-Dry and Mixed-Dry Climates This guidebook is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the hot-dry and mixe  Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 3; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Cold and Very Cold Climates The guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the cold and very co  Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 4; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Mixed-Humid Climate This guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the mixed-humid cli  Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 5; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Marine Climate This best practices guide is part of a series produced by Building America. The guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% en  Details Bookmark & Share

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Advanced Air Distribution Strategies Improve Performance of Palm Harbor Homes: Building America System Fact Sheet Palm Harbor Homes and Building America’s Industrialized Housing Partnership have teamed together to develop air-distribution and duct-sealing strategies that reduce energy use and increase comfort.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Better Duct Systems for Home Heating and Cooling; Building Technologies Program (Brochure) Duct systems used in forced-air space-conditioning systems are a vital element in home energy efficiency. How well a system works makes a big difference in the cost and the effectiveness of heating an  Details Bookmark & Share

8.	Concord Four Square Retrofit This case study describes the retrofit of a home in West Concord, Massachusetts that proved that a 50% reduction in home energy use could be met today in existing housing.   Details Bookmark & Share

9.	Strategy Guideline: Accurate Heating and Cooling Load Calculations This guide presents the key criteria required to create accurate heating and cooling load calculations and offers examples of the implications when inaccurate adjustments are applied to the HVAC desig  Details Bookmark & Share

10.	Strategy Guideline: HVAC Equipment Sizing This guide describes the equipment selection of a split system air conditioner and furnace for an example house in Chicago, IL as well as a heat pump system for an example house in Orlando, FL. The re  Details Bookmark & Share

11.	Short-Term Test Results: Multifamily Home Energy Efficiency Retrofit Multifamily deep energy retrofits (DERs) represent great potential for energy savings, while also providing valuable insights on research-generated efficiency measures, cost-effectiveness metrics, and  Details Bookmark & Share

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Byggmeister Test Home: Analysis and Initial Results of Cold Climate Wood-Framed Home Retrofit BSC seeks to further the energy efficiency market for New England area retrofit projects by supporting projects that are based on solid building science fundamentals that will benefit the homeowner t  Details Bookmark & Share

13.	Air Sealing This fact sheet describes ventilation and the importance of sealing air leaks and providing controlled ventilation.  Details Bookmark & Share

14.	Attic Access: Provide Adequate Insulation Coverage and Air Sealing for the Access between Living Space and the Unconditioned Attic This document describes the importance of, and provides advice for, improving air sealing in your attic.  Details Bookmark & Share

15.	El Rancho Grande, an Artistic Homes project in Albuquerque, New Mexico El Rancho Grande community of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a project of Artistic Homes. It was built as part of the Building America program for energy-efficient homes.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America Best Practices Series - High-Performance Home Technologies: Guide to Determining Climate Regions by County This report identifies the climate region of each county in the United States. The report is intended as an aid in helping builders to identify the appropriate climate designation for the counties in   Details Bookmark & Share

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Builder System Performance Package Targeting 30% - 40% Savings in Space Conditioning Energy Use: December 2002 - December 2003 The Consortium for Advanced Residential Building (CARB) describes recommended best practices to achieve 30% - 40% energy savings without compromising health or safety in houses built in cold climates,  Details Bookmark & Share

18.	Whole-House Ventilation Systems: Improved Control of Air Quality Fact sheet for homeowners and contractors on how to employ whole-house ventilation in the home for comfort and safety.  Details Bookmark & Share

19.	Spot Ventilation Fact sheet for homeowners and contractors on how to employ spot ventilation in the home for comfort and safety.  Details Bookmark & Share

20.	Residential Dehumidification Systems Research for Hot-Humid Climates Twenty homes were tested and monitored in the hot-humid climate of Houston, Texas, to evaluate the humidity control performance and operating cost of six integrated dehumidification and ventilation sy  Details Bookmark & Share

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Healthy and Affordable Housing: Practical Recommendations for Building, Renovating and Maintaining Housing: Read This Before You Design, Build or Renovate This document helps builders design, build, or renovate homes, keeping in mind the issues of asthma, health, indoor air quality, dust, and living creatures.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Healthy and Affordable Housing: Practical Recommendations for Building, Renovating and Maintaining Housing: Read This Before You Move In This document provides advice for healthy and affordable housing: practical recommendations for building, renovating, and maintaining housing.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Healthy and Affordable Housing: Practical Recommendations for Building, Renovating and Maintaining Housing: Read This Before You Turn Over a Unit This document helps landlords provide safe housing, keeping in mind the issues of asthma, health, ventilation, pests, and chemicals.  Details Bookmark & Share

24.	Builders Challenge Quality Criteria Support Document This document provides guidance to U.S. home builders participating in Builders Challenge. To qualify for the Builders Challenge, a home must score 70 or less on the EnergySmart Home Scale (E-Scale).   Details Bookmark & Share

25.	Efficient Solutions for Existing Homes Comprehensive Energy Retrofit Case Study: Asdal Builders, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA This Building America fact sheet describes a retrofit to improve efficiency of a 1930s era bungalow in Pittsburgh.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Efficient Solutions for Existing Homes Comprehensive Energy Retrofit Case Study: Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB), Washington, D.C. This is a Building America fact sheet describing Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildiings (CARB) whole building retrofit process to renovate a 145-year-old home in Washington, D.C.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Efficient Solutions for Existing Homes High Performance With ENERGY STAR Case Study: Green Home Solutions by Grupe, Lodi, California This is a Building America case study on a the first whole building energy efficiency retrofit project on an existing home conducted by Grupe's Green Home Solutions in Lodi, California.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Efficient Solutions for Existing Homes Comprehensive Energy Retrofit Case Study: Yakama Nation Housing Authority, Wapato, WA This is a Building America fact sheet describing the Yakama Nation Housing Authority's retrofit of 25 homes on the reservation to make them more energy efficient.  Details Bookmark & Share

29.	Field Monitoring Protocol: Mini-Split Heat Pumps This Building America program report provides a detailed method for accurately measuring and monitoring performance of a residential mini-split heat pump, which will be used in high-performance retrof  Details Bookmark & Share

30.	High Performance Builder Spotlight: Green Coast Enterprises, New Orleans, Louisiana This case study describes Green Coast Enterprises efforts to rebuild hurricane-ravaged New Orleans through Project Home Again.  Details Bookmark & Share

31.	Bedford Farmhouse High Performance Retrofit Prototype In this case study, Building Science Corporation partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell on a retrofit of a mid-19th century farmhouse into affordable housing meeting Building America   Details Bookmark & Share

32.	Moving Toward Zero Energy Homes in California; Building America (Brochure) This brochure describes The New American Home, an annual project that is focused on the future of homebuilding.  Details Bookmark & Share

33.	Field Evaluation of Programmable Thermostats Prior research suggests that poor programmable thermostats usability may prevent their effective use to save energy. The Fraunhofer team hypothesized that home occupants with high-usability thermostat  Details Bookmark & Share

34.	Sonoma House: Monitoring of the First U.S. Passive House Retrofit The Sonoma Deep Retrofit is a single-story deep retrofit project in the marine climate of Sonoma, California. The design was guided by Passive House principles that promote the use of very high levels  Details Bookmark & Share

35.	Building America Summer 2012 Technical Update Meeting Report This report summarizes key findings and outcomes from the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Summer Technical Update Meeting, held on July 24-26, 2012, in Denver, Colorado.  Details Bookmark & Share

36.	Measure Guideline: High Efficiency Natural Gas Furnaces This measure guideline covers installation of high-efficiency gas furnaces, including: when to install a high-efficiency gas furnace as a retrofit measure; how to identify and address risks; and the s  Details Bookmark & Share

37.	Retrofitting Combined Space and Water Heating Systems: Laboratory Tests Better insulated and tighter homes can often use a single heating plant for both space and domestic water heating. These systems, called dual integrated appliances (DIA) or combination systems, can op  Details Bookmark & Share

38.	Multifamily Ventilation Retrofit Strategies In multifamily buildings, central ventilation systems often have poor performance, overventilating some portions of the building (causing excess energy use), while simultaneously underventilating othe  Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America System Research Results: Innovations for High Performance Homes This report provides a summary of key lessons learned from the first 10 years of the Building America program and also included a summary of the future challenges that must be met to reach the program  Details Bookmark & Share

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Expert Meeting Report: Retrofit Implementation - A Neighborhood at a Time This report provides information about a Building America expert meeting hosted by research team Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB) on October 25, 2011, in New York City. The meeting  Details Bookmark & Share

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Strategy Guideline: Transitioning HVAC Companies to Whole House Performance Contractors This report describes the findings from research IBACOS conducted related to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) companies who have made the decision to transition to whole house perform  Details Bookmark & Share

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Steam System Balancing and Tuning for Multifamily Residential Buildings in Chicagoland Older heating systems often suffer from mis-investment--multiple contractors upgrading parts of systems in inadequate or inappropriate ways that reduce system functionality and efficiency--or from a l  Details Bookmark & Share

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Measured Cooling Performance and Potential for Buried Duct Condensation in a 1991 Central Florida Retrofit Home FSEC conducted energy performance monitoring of two existing residences in Central Florida that were undergoing various retrofits. These homes were occupied by FSEC researchers and were fully instrume  Details Bookmark & Share

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Greenbelt Homes Pilot Energy Efficiency Program Phase 1 Summary: Existing Conditions and Baseline Energy Use A multi-year pilot energy efficiency retrofit project has been undertaken by Greenbelt Homes, Inc, (GHI) a 1,566 co-operative of circa 1930 and '40 homes. The three predominate construction methods of  Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America Research Benchmark Definition, Updated December 19, 2008 To track progress toward aggressive multi-year whole-house energy savings goals of 40-70% and onsite power production of up to 30%, DOE's Residential Buildings Program and NREL developed the Building   Details Bookmark & Share

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Builders Challenge High Performance Builder Spotlight - Masco Environments for Living, Las Vegas, Nevada Building America Builders Challenge fact sheet on Masco’s Environments for Living Certified Green demo home at the 2009 International Builders Show in Las Vegas. The home has a Home Energy Rating Syst  Details Bookmark & Share

47.	Right-Size Heating and Cooling Equipment This fact sheet helps people choose the correct equipment size for heating and cooling to improve comfort and reduce costs, maintenance, and energy use.  Details Bookmark & Share

48.	Pulte Homes - Las Vegas, Nevada: Cost-Saving System Trade-Offs for Hot, Dry Climates This document describes Pulte Homes in Las Vegas, Nevada, which serve as a case study for energy efficient homes in hot, dry climates.  Details Bookmark & Share

49.	Prototype House Provides Test Case for Energy-Efficient Systems: Mitchell Homes - Pensacola, Florida This document describes the energy-efficient Mitchell Homes in Pensacola, Florida, which are energy efficient test houses utilizing a whole building approach.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Moving toward Zero Energy Homes: Zero Energy Home Powers Up in North Texas; Building America This fact sheet describes the first Zero Energy Home built in northern Texas. It describes the energy efficiency features and their advantages, and discusses details of its construction.  Details Bookmark & Share