Lancaster County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC) Green Homes

Description

With the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building America Program, Home Innovation Research Labs partnered with Lancaster County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC) to build a third new construction test house (NCTH) in Apprentice Green, a community next to the school in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (International Energy Conservation Code [IECC] climate zone [CZ] 5A). The overall program goals for the NCTH research project: - Develop a design to achieve 40% whole-house energy savings over the Building America B10 benchmark (the B10 benchmark is equivalent to meeting the 2009 IECC). - DOE Challenge Home certification (DOE 2013). - Document and evaluate costs for efficiency measures. - National Green Building Standard gold level green certification (NGBS 2009).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
47 Includes building specifications that were used in the BEopt simulation of the LCCTC Green Home 3. https://data.openei.org/files/5062/LCCTC%20Green%20Home%203%20Building%20Specifications.txt
33 This report details the work done for the LCCTC Green Homes https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/62539.pdf
55 BEopt files for the LCCTC Green Home 3. Includes a simulation of the LCCTC Green Home 3. This file can be viewed and ran using the NREL software, BEopt. https://data.openei.org/files/5062/lcctc-gh3_2_3.xml

Tags

  • hvac
  • building-america
  • new-construction
  • buildingamerica
  • insulated-concrete
  • doe-challenge-home
  • thermal-mass-wall-system
  • single-family-detached
  • domestic-hot-water-systems
  • residential
  • whole-home
  • low-load
  • mixed-humid
  • building-energy-efficiency
  • beopt
  • cold
  • simulation

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