Building America: Prefabricated Zero Energy Retrofit Technologies: A Market Assessment
This Building America report explores the current state of technology and market gaps for industrialized retrofits as demonstrated by Energiesprong.
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April 8, 2020
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This Building America report explores the current state of technology and market gaps for industrialized retrofits as demonstrated by Energiesprong in the Netherlands and provides key recommendations for how the United States might develop its own capacity for such retrofits.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) mission is to “create and sustain American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy.” EERE’s vision is a strong and prosperous America powered by clean, affordable, and secure energy. In support of this vision, one of EERE’s strategic pillars is to stimulate the growth of a thriving domestic clean energy manufacturing industry. This report seeks to identify products in the European and U.S. markets that can enable a more integrated and standardized approach to conducting zero energy retrofits, leveraging off-site construction and manufacturing. Greater integration of energy conservation measures into prefabricated building components will further enable efficiency adoption, while reducing project complexity, risks, and costs.
