U. S. Military

The Building Design and Performance Program has a long history of working with the different services within the U.S. Military on building energy issues. The program evaluated 19 Energy Conservation Investment Program (ECIP) projects for the U.S. Army in the late 1980's as well as the performance of several base-wide energy management and control systems.

The program worked with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army in developing a series of three energy guides which will assist in meeting the goals of the National Energy Strategy to improve the efficiency of energy use in family housing. A Design Guide addresses improving energy efficiency during the design of revitalization and new construction projects, A Retrofit Guide establishes a retrofit program for housing that are not scheduled for major revitalization, and an Inspection Field Manual outlines how to inspect the installation of retrofit measures in revitalization, new construction, and retrofit projects.

The program worked with the U.S. Army's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) to computerize the audit forms, calculation equations, and worksheets used in the Design Guide identified above. The program has also worked with DOE's Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) in performing audits of military family housing under FEMP's SAVEnergy Program.