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Title: Air Leakage of US Homes: Regression Analysis and Improvements from Retrofit

Abstract

LBNL Residential Diagnostics Database (ResDB) contains blower door measurements and other diagnostic test results of homes in United States. Of these, approximately 134,000 single-family detached homes have sufficient information for the analysis of air leakage in relation to a number of housing characteristics. We performed regression analysis to consider the correlation between normalized leakage and a number of explanatory variables: IECC climate zone, floor area, height, year built, foundation type, duct location, and other characteristics. The regression model explains 68% of the observed variability in normalized leakage. ResDB also contains the before and after retrofit air leakage measurements of approximately 23,000 homes that participated in weatherization assistant programs (WAPs) or residential energy efficiency programs. The two types of programs achieve rather similar reductions in normalized leakage: 30% for WAPs and 20% for other energy programs.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1172697
Report Number(s):
LBNL-5966E
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; blower door; fan pressurization measurements; air infiltration; weatherization; retrofit

Citation Formats

Chan, Wanyu R., Joh, Jeffrey, and Sherman, Max H. Air Leakage of US Homes: Regression Analysis and Improvements from Retrofit. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.2172/1172697.
Chan, Wanyu R., Joh, Jeffrey, & Sherman, Max H. Air Leakage of US Homes: Regression Analysis and Improvements from Retrofit. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1172697
Chan, Wanyu R., Joh, Jeffrey, and Sherman, Max H. 2012. "Air Leakage of US Homes: Regression Analysis and Improvements from Retrofit". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1172697. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1172697.
@article{osti_1172697,
title = {Air Leakage of US Homes: Regression Analysis and Improvements from Retrofit},
author = {Chan, Wanyu R. and Joh, Jeffrey and Sherman, Max H.},
abstractNote = {LBNL Residential Diagnostics Database (ResDB) contains blower door measurements and other diagnostic test results of homes in United States. Of these, approximately 134,000 single-family detached homes have sufficient information for the analysis of air leakage in relation to a number of housing characteristics. We performed regression analysis to consider the correlation between normalized leakage and a number of explanatory variables: IECC climate zone, floor area, height, year built, foundation type, duct location, and other characteristics. The regression model explains 68% of the observed variability in normalized leakage. ResDB also contains the before and after retrofit air leakage measurements of approximately 23,000 homes that participated in weatherization assistant programs (WAPs) or residential energy efficiency programs. The two types of programs achieve rather similar reductions in normalized leakage: 30% for WAPs and 20% for other energy programs.},
doi = {10.2172/1172697},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1172697}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}