Buildings Energy Efficiency

Applications

The Applications Team transfers new energy-efficient building technologies from the laboratory to the real world, and stimulates the use of underutilized, high-performance technologies through innovative deployment programs.

The Applications Team:

• Develops, implements, and evaluates proven, cost-effective energy efficiency measures in existing buildings,
• Assembles confidence-building demonstrations of emerging technologies and energy management practices not commonly used by building professionals.
• Develops and disseminates state-of-the-art field guidelines and protocols, for example, for savings measurement and verification.
• Demonstrates the potential for achieving energy savings while maintaining or improving indoor environmental conditions influencing human productivity and well-being, such as reduced indoor air pollution, better lighting quality, and thermal comfort.
• Transfers design and application methods and tools to private-sector practitioners such as architecture and engineering firms that collaborate with the A-Team on projects.
• Supports energy savings performance contracting at the national level.