Technology Solutions for Existing Homes Overview: Quantifying the Financial Benefits of Multifamily Retrofits

Title: Technology Solutions for Existing Homes Overview: Quantifying the Financial Benefits of Multifamily Retrofits

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In this project, the U.S. Department of Energy Building America team Partnership for Advanced Residential Retrofit (PARR) worked with Elevate Energy on three tasks: to conduct pre- and post-retrofit analysis on the income and expense data of 13 Chicago-area multifamily buildings, to compare Chicago income and expense data to two national samples, and to explore the ramifications that energy-efficiency retrofits have on nine Chicago-area neighborhoods. The project team collected building, energy, and income and expense data from multiple private and public sources.

Publication Date:: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: PARR

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B) (Building America)

OSTI Identifier:: 1247921

Report Number(s):: DOE/GO-102016-4777
7382

Resource Type:: Program Document

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: residential; residential buildings; building america; parr; multifamily; retrofit

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