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- Title: Home Envelope Retrofits (Emerging TECHNOLOGIES)
- Author : ASHRAE Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 170 KB
Description
Residential buildings consume 22% of the energy consumed annually in the U.S. Building envelopes account for 36% of the total building sector energy use due to heat gains and losses. The building envelope primarily affects heating and cooling loads, which account for 42% of the energy consumed by residential buildings. (1,2) New residential buildings that have been designed and built to the latest building energy codes, such as ASHRAE Standard 90.2-2007 (3) require modest amounts of energy for space conditioning.