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

Gail Werren

Research output: NRELSubcontract Report

Abstract

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.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages87
StatePublished - 2012

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/SR-5500-55554

Other Report Number

  • DOE/GO-102012-3693

Keywords

  • advanced framing
  • building science
  • EE
  • energy efficiency
  • flood recoverable
  • heat pump
  • hot humid
  • hurricanes
  • instantaneous hot water
  • mechanical ventilation
  • spray foam
  • water management

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