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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BTO's Program Areas

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Columbia University Study Finds How and When New York City Residents Use Electricity During Shelter-in-Place Orders
May 12, 2021
With funding from BTO, researchers at Columbia University are capturing unique electricity-use data from hundreds of New York City apartments during the state-mandated shelter-in-place orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Green Buildings Career Map Offers Glimpse of Promising Energy-Efficiency Careers
May 6, 2021
A new recruiting tool funded by the Building Technologies Office offers job seekers hundreds of options to obtain and advance careers in the green-buildings industry.
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Achieving Better Measurement of Discomfort from Glare
April 22, 2021
The prevalence of LED lighting has brought greater attention to the issue of discomfort produced by glare. At what luminance does glare become intolerable? The answer has varied from one study to another.
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BTO Announces $8.5 Million Laboratory CRADA Call
April 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Building Technologies Office (BTO) is proud to leverage the expertise of its national laboratories to accelerate the development of emerging building technologies and address barriers to their...
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Success Stories

Events and Webinars

May 17
2021 Better Buildings, Better Plants Summit 11:00 AM May 17 to 5:15 PM May 20 EDT
May 19
Winning Solar Home - The DOE Solar Decathlon Build Challenge Winners 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT