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The following report is an excerpt from the 2010 Building Science Corporation Industry Team Building America Annual Report. Many concerns, including the rising cost of energy, climate change concerns… Read More

This paper describes a hygrothermal modeling study, including all of the US climate zones, a range of interior humidity levels and numerous arrangements and types of insulation. The results showed… Read More

Building America is a program of the U.S. Department of Energy, in which teams of architects, engineers, builders, equipment manufacturers, and others collaborate in a systems engineering approach to… Read More

The following report is an excerpt from the 2009 Building Science Corporation Industry Team Building America Annual Report. BSC has been active for many years in working to help identify and address… Read More

The following reports are excerpts from the 2009 Building Science Corporation Industry Team Building America Annual Report. These prototype house project summaries include whole-house performance and… Read More

The following reports are excerpts from the 2009 Building Science Corporation Industry Team Building America Annual Report. These community scale evaluations include whole-house performance and… Read More

The following reports are excerpts from the 2009 Building Science Corporation Industry Team Building America Annual Report. These summaries are for the following advanced system research projects:  … Read More

Many concerns, including the rising cost of energy, climate change concerns, and demands for increased comfort, have lead to the desire for increased insulation levels in many new and existing… Read More

The goal of this project was to create a home with a high R-value enclosure, a right-sized mechanical system, energy efficient lighting, appliances, windows and doors, and also have the possibility… Read More

The combination of tankless hot water heating and solar hot water heating creates some challenges that we have been researching with our builder partner, Coastal Habitats/Coastal Green Building… Read More