LED under-cabinet lights are used primarily to light up kitchen counters for various kitchen tasks. These areas are typically lit with incandescent and fluorescent sources. Under-cabinet lighting is used to...
Design software to help homeowners and designers evaluate the energy use of residential buildings.
PM: Martha Brook
Residential showcase project, 11 homes, and commissioning. Production quality control problems created field installation problems for the project.
The first phase of an evaporative cooler technology evaluation project conducted 2003 tested the performance of advanced evaporative coolers (AECs) that used 8 inch thick rigid media. The results...
The BreezeAir single-stage advanced evaporative cooler is an Australian product that has recently been introduced into the U.S. market. This product differs from U.S. advanced technology in that it...
Aerogels are porous solids invented in the 1930s. Aerogels are created when silica is gelled in a solvent. When the solvent is removed, what remains is puffed-up sand,...
Develop and demonstrate a hydronic mechanical ventilation cooling and heating technology (NightBreeze) for residential buildings. The system integrates an economiser with a variable-speed fan coil unit and is controlled by...
Develop and evaluate house designs capable of providing comfort in California transition climates, without the use of conventional compressor-based cooling.
Project Manager: Randel Riedel
Design and evaluate a system for recovering heat from attics in HfH and manufactured houses, in order to use it for domestic water heating. Project work on manufactured home has...
Compare relative effectiveness and costs of several passive methods for ventilating or reducing heat loads in attics of HfH and manufactured housing, in order to reduce space conditioning loads and...