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California Residential Retrofits: Ten Important Lessons Learned
The potential for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions through retrofitting existing homes offers major incentives for future work.
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Noninvasive Energy Retrofit of a Group Home for 40% Energy Savings
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Our firm, Newport Partners, acted as the lead consultant on an occupant-in-place energy efficiency retrofit of a Sasha Bruce Youthwork group home in Washington, D.C. Project sponsors included DOE Building America, HomeAid DC, Home ... [continue reading]
Energy Retrofit of a Typical Three-Story Multifamily Building
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Measured Results and Lessons Learned [continue reading]
Measuring Savings: A Postretrofit Analysis of 436 Chicago Bungalows
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Since 2006, the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association (HCBA) has provided more than 2,500 energy efficiency grants to low- and moderate-income bungalow owners throughout the city of Chicago. [continue reading]
A Deeper Look into My Deep Energy Retrofit
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My wife and I live in a Title 24 house built in 2004 in Stockton, California. It is a 1,883 ft2 ranch, slab-on-grade, with 9-foot ceilings, double-pane low-e vinyl -framed horizontal slider windows, installed R-30 ceiling insulation (effective ... [continue reading]
The Case for an Energy Benefit
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A Study of The Clinton Foundation's HEAL Program [continue reading]
California Residential Retrofits: Ten Important Lessons Learned
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The potential for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions through retrofitting existing homes offers major incentives for future work. [continue reading]
Florida's Phased Deep Retrofit Project
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What are the realistic energy savings that can be obtained in homes in a hot-humid climate? As part of U.S. DOE’s Building America Program, phased deep retrofit (PDR) project, the Florida Solar ... [continue reading]
Deep Energy Retrofit X10 Part 3: Gathering Data
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This is the last article in a series of three that have summarized the design, construction, and performance of ten Northern California deep energy retrofits (DERs) that have been monitored by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (... [continue reading]
Marianne DiMascio
Water Heaters Get an Efficiency Makeover Courtesy of DOE
From the rustic 1850s pump shower to the 1920s Humphrey automatic to today’s modern ...
Benjamin Wünsch
Number of Certified Passive House Square Meters Reaches One Million Mark
Building owners throughout the world are increasingly turning to the Passive House standard. This past autumn, the number of square ...
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