Fort Devens. Cold Climate, Energy-Efficient, Market-Rate Townhomes

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1220232· OSTI ID:1220232

Zoeller, William ^[1]; Slattery, Matt ^[1]; Grab, Joanna ^[1]

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1. Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB), Norwalk, CT (United States)

In 2009, Mass Development issued a RFP for teams to develop moderately priced high-efficiency homes on two sites within the Devens Regional Enterprise Zone. MassDevelopment, a Massachusetts agency that owns the Devens site (formerly Fort Devens Army Base, in Harvard, Massachusetts), set a goal of producing a replicable example of current and innovative sustainable building practices with a near-zero energy potential. Metric Development, as primary developer and construction manager, formed one of the successful teams that included CARB and Cambridge Seven Architects (C7A). This report describes the development of high performance, affordable, and replicable designs developed by the team in test homes and plans to move forward with the next buildings.

• Research Organization: Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB), Norwalk, CT (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B) (Building America)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1220232
• Report Number(s): DOE/GO--102013-3903; 6472
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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