Department of Energy: Building America Industry Partnerships for High Performance Housing Innovation Grant – 2017

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is not eligible as a
Prime Recipient or Subrecipient for either Topic 1 or 2, due to their
significant role in Building America Program Technical & Quality
Management Support as well as FOA/Roadmap development.

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) is not eligible as a Prime
Recipient or Subrecipient for Topic 2 due to their significant role in
development of the IAQ study design. LBNL is also not eligible as a
Prime Recipient or Subrecipient for Topic 1 projects that address
objectives of the Optimal Ventilation & IAQ Solutions Roadmap due
to their significant role in developing this roadmap.

Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is not eligible as a Prime recipient
or Subrecipient for Topic 1 projects that address objectives of the
High Performance Moisture Managed Envelope Solutions
Roadmap due to their significant role in developing this roadmap.

The mission of BTO’s Residential Buildings Integration (RBI)
Program is to accelerate energy performance improvements in
existing and new residential buildings using an integrated
building systems approach to achieve peak energy performance.
The RBI Program’s market outcome goal is to reduce, by 2025,
the energy used for space conditioning and water heating in
single-family homes by 40% from 2010 levels. RBI’s focus on
space conditioning and water heating offers the best
opportunities for influencing residential energy use.
The Building America Program is RBI’s premier applied
research, development, & demonstration (RD&D) program,
responsible for over 40 housing innovations to date that have
enabled technology and market advancements in residential
energy efficiency. Since 1994, the rigor of the national
energy code has increased over 40% by applying high
performance building envelope innovations proven with Building
America research and demonstration. To support RBI’s current
program goals, Building America is focused on the following
RBI performance goal: by 2020, demonstrate cost effective
technologies and practices that can reduce the energy use
intensity (EUI) of new homes by at least 60% and existing
homes by at least 40%, relative to the average homes in each
of the seven climate zones in 2010, with a focus on reducing
heating, cooling, and water heating loads.

With this FOA, RBI will select additional Building America
project teams in 2017 to accelerate energy performance
improvements in existing and new residential buildings using
an integrated building systems approach. These Building
America teams will work with industry partners and real world
homes to help housing industry participants achieve optimal
energy and cost performance, while effectively managing
related risks (i.e., indoor air quality and moisture
durability). This FOA builds on work begun in the 2015 and
2016 Building America FOAs, and is focused primarily on
addressing remaining gaps and objectives in the Building
America Research-to-Market Plan.

Building America seeks to fund projects with a high potential
for significant impact. Successful applicants will present a
relevant problem statement, compelling hypothesis and/or
solution, and effective research question(s). Successful
applications will also include a well-developed plan,
demonstrating not only an innovative idea of a
technology/practice, but also a clear and rational way of
executing the idea and enabling wide-scale adoption by the
industry. Teams should have strong partnerships with builders
and/or manufacturers in the industry.

This FOA has two (2) topics, described below. Applicants may
submit multiple applications, but each individual application
must be submitted to either Topic 1 or Topic 2, not both.
Applications will be evaluated using the technical review
criteria of the selected topic.

Topic 1: Building America Technology to Market Roadmaps:
Selected Objectives

Topic 2: Baseline Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Field Study in
Occupied New US Homes

The full Funding Opportunity Announcement is published at
EERE-Exchange.energy.gov.

For questions and answers pertaining to this FOA, please
reference the DE-FOA-0001630 Building America FAQ Log in FOA
Documents.

The eXCHANGE system is currently designed to enforce hard
deadlines for Concept Paper and Full Application submissions.
The APPLY and SUBMIT buttons automatically disable at the
defined submission deadlines. The intention of this design is
to consistently enforce a standard deadline for all
applicants.

Applicants that experience issuse with submissions PRIOR to
the FOA Deadline: In the event that an Applicant experiences
technical difficulties with a submission, the Applicant should
contact the eXCHANGE helpdesk for assistance
(exchangehelp@hq.doe.gov). The eXCHANGE helpdesk and/or the
EERE eXCHANGE System Administrators (eXCHANGE@go.doe.gov) will
assist the Applicant in resolving all issues.

Applicants that experience issues with submissions that result
in a late submission: In the event that an Applicant
experiences technical difficulties with a submission that
results in a late submission, the Applicant should contact the
eXCHANGE helpdesk for assistance (exchangehelp@hq.doe.gov).
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in resolving all issues (including finalizing the submission
on behalf of, and with the Applicant’s concurrence). DOE will
only accept late applications when the Applicant has a)
encountered technical difficulties beyond their control; b)
has contacted the eXCHANGE helpdesk for assistance; and c) has
submitted the application through eXCHANGE within 24 hours of
the FOA’s posted deadline.