Measured Cooling Performance and Potential for Buried Duct Condensation in a 1991 Central Florida Retrofit Home

Stacey Rothgeb, Stacey Rothgeb (NREL Technical Monitor)

Research output: NRELSubcontract Report

Abstract

FSEC conducted energy performance monitoring of two existing residences in Central Florida that were undergoing various retrofits. These homes were occupied by FSEC researchers and were fully instrumented to provide detailed energy, temperature, and humidity measurements. The data provided feedback about the performance of two levels of retrofit in two types of homes in a hot-humid climate. Thisreport covers a moderate-level retrofit and includes two years of pre-retrofit data to characterize the impact of improvements. The other home is a 'deep energy retrofit' (detailed in a separate report) that has performed at near zero energy with a photovoltaic (PV) system and extensive envelope improvements.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages25
StatePublished - 2013

Bibliographical note

Work performed by BA-PIRC (FSEC), Cocoa, Florida

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/SR-5500-57283

Other Report Number

  • DOE/GO-102013-3842

Keywords

  • Building America
  • Building America Partnership for improved residential construction (ba-pirc)
  • central Florida
  • energy performance monitoring
  • Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC)
  • hot humid climate
  • residential
  • residential buildings
  • retrofits

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