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

Author: Mike Moore, PE and James Lyons, PE

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September 05, 2014

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

Author: Jamie M. Lyons PE and Margo Thompson

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May 01, 2014

Measured Results and Lessons Learned [continue reading]

Measuring Savings: A Postretrofit Analysis of 436 Chicago Bungalows

Author: Emily Bailey Burns and Rachel Scheu

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April 29, 2014

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

Author: Dick Rome

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February 28, 2014

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

Author: Rob Guthrie

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November 02, 2013

A Study of The Clinton Foundation's HEAL Program [continue reading]

California Residential Retrofits: Ten Important Lessons Learned

Author: Mark Berman and Vicki Mongan

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November 02, 2013

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

Author: Danny Parker and David Chasar

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October 31, 2013

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

Author: Brennan Less, Jeremy Fisher and Iain Walker

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July 01, 2013

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]