Resources

Through our collaborative work with clients, industry experts, and Building America partners, IBACOS has developed a number of resources to communicate advancements and promote awareness throughout the homebuilding industry.

Featured Resources

High Performance Lighting Guide
Wondering what high performance lighting (HPL) is and how to incorporate it into a home? This guide explains HPL, covers IESNA guidelines, and then takes you room-by-room through various lighting strategies. It also goes into detail regarding specifications for lighting fixtures, bulbs, and lamps.
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Monitoring Data
IBACOS conducts long-term monitoring of houses as a major part of our research work. Over the course of one to three years, monitoring equipment measures the performance of a house, as well as the performance of specific building technologies in the house, such as the HVAC system and the domestic hot water (DHW) system. IBACOS observes the interactions among the various systems, particularly those interactions that are difficult to determine through modeling. In this section, download recent data (Microsoft Excel as comma seperated values) obtained from the houses that IBACOS is currently monitoring or has recently completed monitoring.
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Monitored Results from Fairview II
Dave Stecher of IBACOS presented the monitoring results from the Fairview II house during the 4th Annual North American Passive House Conference in 2009. IBACOS monitors houses like Fairview II to verify energy, comfort, and durability. For this house, built in Urbana, Illinois by the Ecological Construction Laboratory (e-co lab), Stecher looked at the space conditioning, ERV, water heater, lighting, and miscellaneous electric loads. He also collected data on the room-by-room temperature and relative humidity (RH), the incident solar radiation on south walls and windows, and the temperature and RH of incoming fresh air.
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