Improving Energy Efficiency in (Aceee Books on Energy Policy and Energy Efficiency) - Softcover

Apartment buildings, an important part of the affordable U.S. housing stock, have long been identified as a particularly challenging area for energy conservation. This book reviews building characteristics, energy use, and barriers to conservation in existing five-or-more unit multifamily housing. It presents an up-to-date overview of approaches for audit and retrofit, energy-saving technology, conservation programs, evaluation, and financing strategies. Extensive tables and figures providing a statistical portrait of the sector are complemented by a dozen case studies illustrating "what works" for engineering, program planning, and financing apartment building retrofits. Topics covered include techniques for efficiency improvement, including information and retrofit planning and the cost-effectiveness of field-tested conservation measures; program experience, highlighting the elements of successful approaches to apartment building retrofit; innovative methods for financing energy efficiency improvements in apartment buildings; and recommendations for federal, state, local, and utility programs.
Appendices include a list of acronyms, organizations and resources, audit tools for multifamily housing, and an extensive bibliography.
This book is a valuable resource for building owners and managers, public housing officials, community organizations, and government and utility programs managers - anyone involved in the effort to upgrade and maintain our nation's apartment housing stock.