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Prototype House Evaluations: ZEH2 (JWM Companies)

File Under: Energy Efficiency & High-Performance Building, Sustainability

Armory Park del Sol is an urban infill project in an historic district in downtown Tucson, Arizona. When completed, the inner city subdivision will include over 92 homes that blend with the historic neighborhood yet include high performance features to dramatically reduce their energy footprint. All of the homes are designed to meet the voluntary Tucson Sustainable Energy Standard by performing 50% better than the Model Energy Code in addition to meeting the 2003 IECC.

Armory Park del Sol Community Report

File Under: Energy Efficiency & High-Performance Building, Sustainability

Armory Park del Sol (APdS) is a development of new homes in downtown Tucson’s historic neighborhood of Armory Park. The 14-acre redevelopment project fulfills the vision of developer John Wesley Miller to create a sustainable and livable urban in-fill community. The Home Innovation Research Labs worked with John Wesley Miller Companies through the Building America Program on prototype net-zero energy homes as well as on the community as a whole. Presented here is the analysis of this community of high performance homes built in the hot/mixed dry climate.

Consumer Practices Report Sample - 2008 Solar Technology Data

File Under: Energy Efficiency & High-Performance Building, Sustainability

Home Innovation Research Labs Annual Builder and Consumer Practices Reports provide market demand data for building product and material usage in the United States and Canada. Market demand data on home improvement, maintenance, and repair purchases is obtained through the Consumer Practices Survey (CPS), an annual online survey of U.S. and Canadian households. The survey results are tabulated to show demand for building products and materials purchased for the repair and remodeling industry. These reports also provide key information on purchasing and installation practices, as well as demographic information of the respondents. For many years, the CPS was fielded as a mail-based survey that received about 8,000 responses from owner-occupied households. In 2003, Home Innovation Research Labs expanded the CPS to capture data on remodeling projects in renter-occupied houses and implemented online fielding of the survey, yielding more than 46,000 usable responses.

ZEH Impact Study

File Under: Energy Efficiency & High-Performance Building, Sustainability

Once just a concept, truly Zero Energy Homes (ZEH) are now a reality in a handful of locales throughout the United States. And the opportunities to construct ZEH are growing as solar and other energy-efficient technologies become more affordable. To demonstrate the significant long-term energy and environmental benefits of ZEH and encourage more builders to investigate the idea for their customers, a new publication has been released – The Potential Impact of Zero Energy Homes.

Green Building Resource Directory

File Under: Sustainability

Green building is the design, construction, and operation of homes according to resource-efficiency standards for energy, water, building design and materials, as well as indoor air quality standards. As green building becomes more popular, builders, remodelers, contractors, and do-it-yourselfers will have access to a greater number of products and a larger amount of information related to green building. This resource directory is designed to be an easy-to-use tool to help people in the home building trade locate useful green building resources.