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Energy Retrofit Field Study and Best Practices in a Hot-Humid Climate

Research output: NLRSubcontract Report

Abstract

Energy efficiency improvement as a component of comprehensive renovation was investigated under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding of the Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction (BA-PIRC). Researchers at the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) worked with affordable housing partners renovating foreclosed homes built from the 1950's through the 2000's in thehot-humid climate (within the Southern census region), primarily in Florida. Researchers targeted a 30% improvement in whole-house energy efficiency along with the health and safety, durability, and comfort guidelines outlined in DOE's Builders Challenge Program (Version 1) Quality Criteria.
Original languageAmerican English
PublisherNational Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Number of pages86
StatePublished - 2013

Bibliographical note

Work performed by Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction, Cocoa, Florida

NLR Publication Number

  • NREL/SR-5500-57827

Other Report Number

  • DOE/GO-102013-3896

Keywords

  • academia/researcher
  • affordable housing
  • analysis - data
  • analysis - modeling
  • builder/contractor
  • climate category - humid
  • codes
  • construction - existing homes
  • deep energy enclosure retrofits (DER)
  • design standards
  • energ
  • existing homes
  • field test results
  • foreclosed homes
  • hot-humid climates
  • HUD
  • NSP classification description: humid
  • retrofit best practices
  • whole-house energy improvement

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