Strategy Guideline: Advanced Construction Documentation Recommendations for High Performance Homes

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1031403· OSTI ID:1031403

Lukachko, A; Gates, C; Straube, J

As whole house energy efficiency increases, new houses become less like conventional houses that were built in the past. New materials and new systems require greater coordination and communication between industry stakeholders. The Guideline for Construction Documents for High Performance Housing provides advice to address this need. The reader will be presented with four changes that arerecommended to achieve improvements in energy efficiency, durability and health in Building America houses: create coordination drawings, improve specifications, improve detail drawings, and review drawings and prepare a Quality Control Plan.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1031403
• Report Number(s): NREL/SR-5500-53459; DOE/GO-102011-3470; KNDJ-0-40337-00; TRN: US201201%%701
• Resource Relation: Related Information: Work performed by Building Science Corporation, Somerville, Massachusetts
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
COMMUNICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
DOCUMENTATION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
HOUSES
PERFORMANCE
QUALITY CONTROL
RECOMMENDATIONS
SPECIFICATIONS
construction documents
contract documents
drawings
details
detail drawings
high performance homes
quality control
quality management
specifications
materials
specs
architecture
design
architectural drawings