8. Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB) led by Steven Winter Associates, Inc., Norwalk, CT. The CARB team has extensive experience successfully conducting and completing team-based advanced building systems research, whole-house research, and outreach. The CARB team will focus on innovative market delivery and cost-effective demonstrations of high performance retrofits and new homes. Team members include MaGrann Associates, Alliance to Save Energy’s BCAP, Pratt Center for Community Development, University of Florida’s PREC, Green Builder Media, Jay Hall and Associates, Masco, and a broad spectrum of additional stakeholders in the residential energy industry.
9. Habitat Cost Effective Energy Retrofit Program Team led by Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI. This team will focus on applying innovative retrofit technologies in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. These efficiency technologies can deliver energy savings up to 50% and will focus on addressing affordable housing in Cold and Mixed-Humid climate regions. The team’s vision is to improve retrofit methodologies by validating cost-effective strategies through test homes and identifying technology gaps that must be addressed. The Dow team includes Michigan State University, Ferris State University, and Habitat for Humanity, with technical contributions from Duke Energy, DTE, and Exelon.
10. Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) – CSE, Cambridge, MA, will deploy large-scale energy savings by integrating efficiency and renewable energy systems in new and existing homes. The team members have extensive experience in whole-house system integration research, from simulation through commissioning. Team partners include Owens Corning, researchers from MIT, Conservation Services Group, Boston Redevelopment Authority, and Austin Housing and Economic Development and several additional team members from the residential buildings community.
11. Integrated Building and Construction Solutions (IBACOS) – IBACOS, Pittsburgh, PA, will develop and demonstrate integrated systems of design, procurement, construction, quality assurance and marketing needed to transform residential retrofits and new construction across the U.S. IBACOS team members include Advanced Energy, Criterium Engineers, EcoBroker International, GreenHomes America, and the Potomack Group, along with a wide range of highly experienced residential building scientists, researchers, architects, green building realtors, retrofit specialists, program evaluators and trainers.
12. National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center Industry Partnership for High Performing Homes – The NAHB Research Center is located in Upper Marlboro, MD and has over 40 years of experience as an integrated, system-based technology advancement center with the primary mission of removing technological and regulatory barriers to innovation by leveraging its access to remodelers and home builders. Team members include Southface Energy Institute, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Business Excellence Consulting, Brick by Brick, Residential Building Industry Consulting Services, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Greenbelt Homes and many others.
13. National Energy Leadership Corps (NELC) led by Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. The NELC will focus on a new approach to home and homeowner assessment that facilitates multiple levels of energy efficiency measures for existing homes including modest and low-cost improvements, extensive energy retrofits, occupant interactions, and the introduction of advanced energy controls and renewable energy technologies. NELC Team members include a broad diversity of partners such as SmartDwell, Sequentric Energy Systems, Envinity, GroundedPower, ONTILITY, Eaton Corporation, Lutron Corporation, Schneider Electric, Pittsburgh Green Innovators, Partnership for Achieving Construction Excellence (PACE), Conservation Consultants, East Liberty Development, and the Green Building Alliance.
14. NorthernSTAR Energy Efficient Housing Research Partnership Team led by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. The NorthernStar team embraces the philosophy that achieving optimal energy efficiency in houses, neighborhoods and communities requires a holistic performance approach using an integrated implementation process. This team will develop and deploy high performance energy-efficient solutions for new and existing homes in cold and severe cold climates. Team members include the Center for Energy and the Environment, Building Knowledge, Building Green, Hunt Utilities Group, Verified Green, Energy Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corps, McGregor Pearce, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the University of Wisconsin and Wagner Zaun Architecture.
15. Partnership for Advanced Residential Retrofit (PARR) led by the Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL. PARR has strong experience in design, development, integration, and testing of advanced building energy equipment, components and systems in laboratory and test house settings. The team will focus on improving performance, quality and market acceptance of residential retrofits in cold climates. Team members include CNT Energy, the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Building Research Council at the University of Illinois, and Future Energy Enterprises among others.
Source: U.S. DOE Press Release dated July 20, 2010.
