Technology Roadmap: Energy Efficiency in Existing
Homes - Volume Three:
Prioritized Action Plan (May 2004, 58p.)
The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH)
is pleased to present the third installment of the Energy
Efficiency in Existing Housing (EEEH) Roadmap. As a follow-up
on the activities that have occurred since the Volume 1 Technology
Brainstorming and Volume 2 Strategies Defined
reports were published, we invite you to look at the progress
that has been made in helping to formulate a prioritized action
plan for existing housing energy efficiency.
The PATH program, administered by HUD, is focused on improving
the affordability and value of new and existing homes. Through
private and public cooperation, PATH is working to improve
energy efficiency, environmental impact, durability and maintenance,
hazard resistance, and labor safety relative to new and existing
homes. To accomplish this, PATH has identified priority strategies
and activities that will enable government and industry to
jointly fulfill the PATH mission. We refer to this priority-setting
process as roadmapping. The Energy Efficiency in Existing
Housing Roadmap is one of five roadmaps under development
to date. The other roadmaps are: 1. Information Technology
to Accelerate and Streamline Home Building, 2. Whole
House and Building Process Redesign, 3. Advanced
Panelized Construction, and 4. Technology Roadmapping
for Manufactured Housing.
This report discusses eight key strategies and associated activities for bringing
about new levels of energy conservation in the nation’s
existing housing stock. Priorities were established by a broad
cross-section of manufacturers, remodelers, trade contractors,
researchers, and government program officials through the
application of an innovative web-based decision making tool
that was developed for this project by University for Contractors,
LLC. Some of the strategies suggest ways to influence consumers
to demand energy conserving products and services, while other
strategies focus on developing new technologies and preparing
remodeling and trade contractors to supply them into home
improvement and renovation.
The three EEEH Roadmapping volumes can be read independently
or as a set. This third volume expands on the concepts developed
in the previous two volumes and presents them in the prioritized
order determined by the web-based decision making process.
Therefore, it can stand alone as the more definitive action
plan for improving the energy efficiency of the nation’s
existing housing stock.
We invite manufacturers, builders, trade contractors, researchers,
and others to examine this roadmap and encourage your participation
in improving the energy performance of housing.
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