Abstract
This report describes the results of evaluation by the Alliance for Residential Building Innovation (ARBI) Building America team of the 'Super Energy Efficient Design' (S.E.E.D) home, a 1,935 sq. ft., single-story spec home located in Tucson, AZ. This prototype design was developed with the goal of providing an exceptionally energy efficient yet affordable home and includes numerous aggressiveenergy features intended to significantly reduce heating and cooling loads such as structural insulated panel (SIP) walls and roof, high performance windows, an ERV, an air-to-water heat pump with mixed-mode radiant and forced air delivery, solar water heating, and rooftop PV. Source energy savings are estimated at 45% over the Building America B10 Benchmark. System commissioning, short termtesting, long term monitoring and detailed analysis of results was conducted to identify the performance attributes and cost effectiveness of the whole house measure package.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 39 |
State | Published - 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Work performed by Alliance for Residential Building Innovation (ARBI), Davis, CaliforniaNREL Publication Number
- NREL/SR-5500-55625
Other Report Number
- DOE/GO-102012-3701
Keywords
- air conditioning
- air-to-water heat pump
- Alliance for Residential Building Innovation (ARBI)
- Building America
- efficient envelope
- hot-dry
- hydronic distribution
- long-term monitoring
- radiant floor
- residential
- residential buildings
- solar water heating
- space conditioning
- space cooling and heating
- structurally insulated panels