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Title: Whole-House Design and Commissioning in the Project Home Again Hot-Humid New Construction Community

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1051951· OSTI ID:1051951

BSC has been working with Project Home Again since 2008 and has consulted on the design of around 100 affordable, energy efficient new construction homes for victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This report details the effort on the final two phases of the project: Phases V and VI which resulted in a total of 25 homes constructed in 2011. The goal of this project was to develop and implementan energy efficiency package that will achieve at least 20% whole house source energy savings improvement over the B10 Benchmark.

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:
1051951
Report Number(s):
NREL/SR-5500-55554; DOE/GO-102012-3693; KNDJ-0-40337-00
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English