Lessons Learned from Case Studies of Six High-Performance Buildings

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/884978· OSTI ID:884978

Torcellini, P; Pless, S; Deru, M; Griffith, B; Long, N; Judkoff, R

Commercial buildings have a significant impact on energy use and the environment. They account for approximately 18% (17.9 quads) of the total primary energy consumption in the United States (DOE 2005). The energy used by the building sector continues to increase, primarily because new buildings are added to the national building stock faster than old buildings are retired. Energy consumption by commercial buildings will continue to increase until buildings can be designed to produce more energy than they consume. As a result, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Building Technologies Program has established a goal to create the technology and knowledge base for marketable zero-energy commercial buildings (ZEBs) by 2025.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99GO10337
• OSTI ID: 884978
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-550-37542
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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