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EERE Success Story—Performance Validation of Low-e Storm Windows Paves Way for Market Acceptance
Complexity, customization and cost are three of the most prevalent barriers to technology integration in commercial buildings.
Winners of the inaugural Buildings Crowdsourcing Community Campaign were announced today at the Department of Energy’s Industry Day event at ORNL.
The AEC Technology Symposium and Hackathon brings together software developers that work in and around the architecture, engineering, and construct...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reached a significant milestone in bringing the building community together by releasing a common definition for a zero energy building, or what is also referred to as a “net zero energy” or “zero net energy.”
EERE Success Story—Xergy Develops Breakthrough Water Heater Compressor
This week, the Department announced that the Association of Energy Engineers’ (AEE) Certified Energy Manager® is the first certification program to be recognized under the Better Buildings Workforce Guidelines program.
The Business Innovation contest — designed to help teams form and explore software solutions to the most compelling problems facing building energy efficiency — is complete and finalists have been selected for the next competition phase, the Prototyping contest.
EERE Success Story—Energy-Efficient Smart Windows are Lowering Energy Costs
A year ago this week, a star was born. Working with IBPSA-USA, the US chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, and Big Ladder Software, a Denver, CO startup, the Energy Department launched Unmet Hours, a peer-to-peer qu...