Building Technologies Office

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BTO's Program Areas

Emerging Technologies

Residential Buildings Integration

Commercial Buildings Integration

Appliance and Equipment Standards Program

Building Energy Codes Program

About the Building Technologies Office

Learn More About BTO's Work

Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings

We’re conducting Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings research to help bring connectedness and the related energy savings across the buildings sector.

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Advanced Building Construction Initiative

The ABC Initiative integrates energy-efficiency solutions into highly productive U.S. construction practices for new buildings and retrofits.

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Technology-to-Market

T2M activities accelerate innovative R&D concepts to become commercially viable and available products.

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Buildings Funding Opportunities

Here you can find a list of both active and past DOE Building Technologies Office funding opportunities.

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Building Technologies Office Projects Map

Learn more about our projects throughout the U.S. with this map and detailed table.

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Resource Center

The Resource Center includes links to documents and solution centers that guide the program management process and illustrate results and benefits.

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News

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New Toolkit Helps Save Energy in Two Data Centers—and Potentially Many More

March 22, 2021

A team led by the University of Colorado-Boulder has developed a combined cooling and airflow simulation and optimization toolkit that has already enabled significant energy savings in two data centers.

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U.S. Department of Energy Technology Campaigns: Getting to Scale

March 10, 2021

Learn about the tech campaigns that help new technologies gain widespread adoption and building owners achieve significant energy savings.

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Announcing the Inaugural Cohort of Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellows

March 9, 2021

The IBUILD Fellowship Program works to strengthen the pool of well-trained, diverse graduate students who are equipped for research-intensive careers.

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Architecture Firm Perkins&Will “SPEEDs” Up Early-Stage BEM

February 23, 2021

The Energy lab at architecture firm Perkins&Will used OpenStudio to develop a cloud-based energy analysis tool that supports its 2,000 architects.

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