DOE Category
NREL: Initial Data from 13 Cedar VA Hybrid Mini-Spit System
October 10th, 2012 categories: D.O.E., DOE, Renovators Webinars
NREL: Initial Data 13 Cedar Hybrid Mini-Split System (Hybrid = Partly Ducted, Partly Ductless) Greetings PlanetSavers, Tonight we will look at the initial results of 15 days of hot weather in the Cedar St. Lab House. NREL is monitoring this project and has kindly provided us with loads (overloads, actually) of data. We have the mountain of data distilled down into some useful charts...Continue Reading!
What Would You Do?
May 9th, 2012 categories: DOE, HVAC, Investors Webinars, Renovators Webinars
What Would You Do? 13 Cedar Round Hill VA The plans have changed on our Virginia Test House. Due to budgeting issues the house has been moved over to be a research project of NREL. The 1700 square foot, two story house is finished with a very tight envelope... but has been waiting for a decision about HVAC to move ahead. NREL...Continue Reading!
DOE-GEE 13 Cedar Virginia Test House Update
February 8th, 2012 categories: D.O.E., DOE, Insulation, Investors Webinars, Renovators Webinars, Shell Sealing
DOE-GEE 13 Cedar Virginia Test House: Incredible Shell Sealing Tonight We'll explore what it takes to create a workforce capable of producing the tight, performing houses that we'll need to achieve our 2020 and 2030 energy use goals. BTW, we are not on track to meet them with the status quo. Finding and training a competent labor force is the second most...Continue Reading!
112911 DOE-IBACOS-GEE Virginia Test House
November 30th, 2011 categories: DOE, EnergyWise Renovation, RENOVATORS, Renovators Webinars
DOE-IBACOS-GEE 13 Cedar Virginia Test House Wow! It's good to be back in the USA! Luelle and I had a great cruise on the Danube and I'll talk a little about some of the surprising Energy related things that I saw in Germany at the beginning of the webinar. BTW if you want to read the blog and see a bunch...Continue Reading!
Doe-IBACOS Test House Set Up Part 2
November 24th, 2011 categories: DOE, EnergyWise Renovation, Home Performance, RENOVATORS, Renovators Videos
DOE-IBACOS Test House Set Up Part 2 Watch as the IBACOS, contracted by the Department of Energy, do the automation set up and commissioning GEE’s joint venture of the California empty test house located at 440 N Homsy. Rogelio (Project Manager) and Gary Richardson (Rare Service HVAC) join IBACOS’s David Stecher and Kevin Brozyna in calibrating the Carrier HVAC system and setting...Continue Reading!
DOE-IBACOS Test House Set Up Part 1
November 23rd, 2011 categories: DOE, Home Performance, HVAC, RENOVATORS, Renovators Videos
DOE - IBACOS Test House Set Up Part 1 Watch as the IBACOS, contracted by the Department of Energy, do the automation set up and commissioning GEE's joint venture of the California empty test house located at 440 N Homsy. Rogelio (Project Manager) and Gary Richardson (Rare Service HVAC) join IBACOS's David Stecher and Kevin Brozyna in calibrating the Carrier HVAC system...Continue Reading!
Home Performance: Why Do We Make It So Difficult?
August 31st, 2011 categories: Buyers Webinars, DOE, Investors Webinars, Renovators Webinars
Home Performance Why Do We Make It So Difficult? If you've hung around this site for a while, you've noticed some recurring "Mantras" ... the chief of which is "Keep It Simple." We've found that Simplicity Works and Complexity Doesn't. For example, the above photo which Rogelio sent me from his phone ... of the final blower door number for our project on...Continue Reading!
DOE (IBACOS) and GEE Project 110606
July 30th, 2011 categories: DOE, Investors Webinars, Regulators and Regulations, RENOVATORS, Renovators Webinars, WEBINARS, Whats New
GEE-Department of Energy Project As you may recall, GEE has teamed up with the Department of Energy through IBACOS as part of 2-3 year Northern CA Test House project. Since 1991 IBACOS (Integrated Building and Construction Solutions) has been a pioneering source of Services and Research for the U.S. homebuilding industry. In the past their testing was primarily on new production housing but given...Continue Reading!