http://www.ntis.gov/rss/RSSNTISCategoryList.aspxNational Technical Reports Libraryen(c) 2008, National Technical Information Service. All rights reserved.5http://www.ntis.gov/images/logoRSS.jpghttp://www.ntis.govMiscellaneous electric loads (MELs) are the loads outside of a building's core functions of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, lighting, and water heating. MELs are becoming an increasing fraction of total building energy use. The explosive grow ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20121034576On 16 August 2011 at approximately 0815 hours, a fatal accident occurred on the offshore production platform, High Island A557 A, operated by Energy Resource Technology GOM, Inc. (ERT). Platform personnel were using the platform crane to move a renta ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107924From fall 2000 through spring 2003, Professors Comerio and Tobriner of the Department of Architecture taught a special seminar course focused on the UC Berkeley seismic retrofit program. The students in the course were asked to do case studies of var ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107652This is a meeting overview of 'The Best Approach to Combustion Safety in a Direct Vent World', held June 28, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas. The objective of this Expert Meeting was to identify gaps and barriers that need to be addressed by future resea ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131069157The architecture, engineering, and construction industries are pursuing process and technological innovations to save time and money and to enhance the quality of projects through the design, construction, and handover phases. Building Information Mo ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571762From 2008 to 2010, an estimated average of 164,500 cooking fires in residential buildings occurred in the United States each year and resulted in an estimated annual average of 110 deaths, 3,525 injuries, and $309 million in property loss. The term c ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107600The Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEBHub) uses Sankey diagrams to visually analyze energy use in the building of its headquarters, Building 101 (B101). This report describes B101 energy consumption and passive energy exchanges with the surrounding ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131062226The Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEBHub) uses Sankey diagrams to visually analyze energy uses among buildings within the Navy Yard. This report describes the preliminary steps taken to incorporate multiple buildings in a district energy analysis, ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131062224Energy efficiency improvement as a component of comprehensive renovation was investigated under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding of the Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction (BA-PIRC). Researchers at the Florida So ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131069164The demonstration of a cost effective solution to the problem of improving boiler efficiency and reducing emissions by means of a novel combustion control system and a sensor package was the main objective of the Environmental Security Technology Cer ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571855A major objective of the U.S. Department of Energy is to have a zero energy commercial building by the year 2025. Windows have a major influence on the energy performance of the building envelope as they control over 55% of building energy load, and ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20121040771A market transformation program for highly insulating windows (U-factor no greater than 0.22) and low-E (low emissivity) storm windows was undertaken by the U.S. Department of Energy Building Technology (DOE/BT) program in Fiscal Year 2009 to acceler ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131069208The Hood River Passive Project was developed by Root Design Build of Hood River Oregon using the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) to meet all of the requirements for certification under the European Passive House standards. The Passive House des ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131068627Most industrial and nuclear facilities rely on reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls as their primary seismic lateral-force-resisting components. These walls commonly have an aspect ratio smaller than 0.5 and have a very high stiffness and streng ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107647Homebuilders are exploring more cost effective combined space and water heating systems (combo systems) with major water heater manufacturers that are offering pre-engineered forced air space heating combo systems. In this project, unlike standardize ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131069154This guide provides design teams with best practices for parking structure energy efficiency in the form of goals for each design aspect that affects energy use. A parking structure typically uses 5%-20% the energy of its supported building (or build ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131062442Electronics designed for use in NASA space missions are required to work efficiently and reliably under harsh environment conditions. These include radiation, extreme temperatures, and thermal cycling, to name a few. Information pertaining to perform ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20130001606This project evaluates the renovation of a 5,800-ft2, multiuse facility located in St. Petersburg, on the west coast of central Florida, in the hot-humid climate. An optimal package of retrofit measures was designed to deliver 30%-40% annual energy c ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131063693In the United States, regulatory seismic codes (for example, California Building Code) require at least two sets of horizontal ground-motion components for three-dimensional (3D) response history analysis (RHA) of building structures. For sites withi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013106704In 2012, Dynatest conducted friction testing for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) on a representative subset of its State Trunk Highway Network. Friction testing was performed at 3,394 sites in accordance with ASTM E274 using a Dyn ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107948As part of the NAHB Research Center Industry Partnership, Southface partnered with TaC Studios, an Atlanta based architecture firm specializing in residential and light commercial design, on the construction of a new test home in Atlanta, GA in the m ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131069161This report discusses the observed variability in indoor space temperature in a set of 60 homes located in Florida, New York, Oregon, and Washington. Temperature data were collected at 15-minute intervals for an entire year, including living room, ma ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131069151