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Building Technologies Office Projects Map
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Learn more about our projects throughout the U.S. with this map and detailed table.
Buildings Funding Opportunities
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Here you can find a list of both active and past DOE Building Technologies Office funding opportunities.
Resource Center
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The Resource Center includes links to documents and solution centers that guide the program management process and illustrate results and benefits.
Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
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We’re conducting Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings research to help bring connectedness and the related energy savings across the buildings sector.
News
Low Cost Peel-and-Stick Wireless Sensors: From Prototype Development to Field Testing
An estimated 200,000 devices are connected to the internet every hour across the globe. These devices rely on wireless networks.
September 18, 2018
Energy Department Partners with Hatch to Explore Energy Solutions at Seaports
Through the Better Communities Alliance, BTO recently partnered with Hatch to explore innovative and replicable energy solutions at seaports.
September 11, 2018
Energy Department Recognizes Better Buildings Challenge Goal Achievers at the 2018 Energy Exchange and Better Buildings Summit
DOE recognized 19 Better Buildings Challenge partners for achieving energy productivity goals and 26 partners for setting new Challenge goals.
August 23, 2018
Energy Department Recognizes Commercial Lighting Leaders in Interior Lighting Campaign
DOE’s Better Buildings Interior Lighting Campaign recognized 15 organizations for leading the way in upgrading interior lighting and control systems.
August 21, 2018
Energy Department Brings Energy Training and Peer Event to Cleveland
The U.S. Department of Energy is hosting the Energy Exchange and Better Buildings Summit in Cleveland, Ohio, from August 21-23, 2018.
August 20, 2018
New Scout Application Estimates Impacts of Efficient Technologies on Building Energy Savings
The number of ways that a building can use energy is growing, meaning that the best opportunities for saving energy in buildings are always changing.
August 15, 2018
2018 DOE Housing Innovation Award Winners Announced!
The awards recognize the nation’s leading builders who are delivering a superior homeowner experience to American homebuyers.
August 3, 2018
Putting Data to Work
IMT has released reports from the project Putting Data to Work, focusing on the value that building energy data brings to the efficiency industry.
July 24, 2018
National Environmental Balancing Bureau Earns its First Better Buildings Workforce Guideline Recognition
An advanced workforce is needed to design and install the technologies and solutions that can save 20-30% of energy consumption in existing buildings.
July 6, 2018
In the Long Run: Testing SSL Reliability
Solid-state lighting (SSL) is bringing new capabilities to lighting, in part because light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can be easily packaged together...
June 25, 2018
Events and Webinars
13th Annual North American Passive House Conference, September 21-22, 2018
DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Orientation Webinar- 2018 Update, September 25, 2018
Back to School: Building Science Training, September 27, 2018
ACEEE 2018 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference, October 7-10, 2018
Resiliency in the Face of Disaster: Energy Efficiency’s Role, October 11, 2018
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