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Projects/Programs

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Air Distribution Impacts in Net-Zero Energy Homes

Completed
Objective To acquire high-quality data from well-controlled field configurations that inform residential building designers and equipment standards organizations about space conditioning and ventilation system performance characteristics, especially the air distribution system(s), when applied in

Building System Economics

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy transparent, open source standards-based data and tools that quantify the life-cycle performance of building technologies and systems through parallel activities focused on developing, releasing, and expanding capabilities and adoption of: (1) the Economic Evaluation

Indoor Contaminants

Ongoing
Objective To provide the measurement science to lead the development of industry-consensus standards and guides to optimize buildings and operate products relevant to the indoor environment and indoor air quality in an efficient and safe manner. Technical Idea This project seeks to provide the

Measurement Science for Building Systems Program

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to support the design and operation of high-performance building systems capable of better supporting resiliency, grid-reliability/stability, and affordability while maintaining a healthy, safe indoor environment. What is the problem

Measuring the Performance of Net-Zero Energy Homes

Completed
Objective: Develop the measurement science necessary to evaluate various technological approaches to achieve net-zero energy residential buildings, including innovative monitoring techniques, methods of test, performance metrics and high quality experimental data for the validation and improvement

Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in High-Performance Buildings

Ongoing
Objective To develop and test tools to quantify and verify high-performance IAQ in high-performance buildings, and to support the development and improvement of industry-consensus building standards, guidelines, and programs related to IAQ and ventilation. Technical Idea The technical idea is to

Ventilation Performance for Novel Sustainability and Resilience Challenges

Ongoing
Objective: To develop tools, metrics, and data to enable sustainable, resilient, high-performance building and ventilation system design and operation in response to current and future challenges. Also, to develop a methodology to evaluate potential changes to ventilation and IAQ standards so their
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