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Singh, Reshma, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, and Yash Shukla."Guidelines for Datacenter Energy Information System." (2013).

Singh, Reshma, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, and Yash Shukla."Guidelines for Datacenter Energy Information System ." (2013).

Mullen, Nasim A, Marion L Russell, Melissa M Lunden, and Brett C Singer."Investigation of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde sampling rate and ozone interference for passive deployment of Waters Sep-Pak XPoSure samplers."Atmospheric Environment 80 (2013) 184-189. DOI

Fisk, William J, Federico Noris, and Brett C Singer."Energy impacts of energy and indoor environmental quality retrofits of apartments." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy information systems (EIS): Technology costs, benefit, and best practice uses." (2013).

Parrish, Kristen, Jessica Granderson, Andrea C Mercado, and Paul A Mathew."Improving Energy Efficiency through Commissioning: Getting Started with Commissioning, Monitoring, and Maintaining Performance." (2013).

Noris, Federico, Gary Adamkiewicz, William W Delp, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L Russell, Brett C Singer, Michael Spears, Kimberly Vermeer, and William J Fisk."Indoor environmental quality benefits of apartment energy retrofits."Building Environment 68 (2013) 170–178. DOI

Robinson, Alastair, and Cynthia Regnier."Lights, Camera, Action ... and Cooling - The case for centralized low carbon energy at Fox Studios." (2013).

Regnier, Cynthia, Alastair Robinson, Kevin Settlemyre, and Zorana Bosnic."Oregon Sustainability Center: Weighing Approaches to Net Zero." (2013).

Price, Phillip N, Jessica Granderson, Michael D Sohn, Nathan J Addy, and David A Jump."Commercial Building Energy Baseline Modeling Software: Performance Metrics and Method Testing with Open Source Models and Implications for Proprietary Software Testing." (2013).

Jump, David A, Phillip N Price, Jessica Granderson, and Michael D Sohn."Functional Testing Protocols for Commercial Building Efficiency Baseline Modeling Software." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models." (2013).

Maddalena, Randy L, Na Li, Alfred T Hodgson, Francis J Offermann, and Brett C Singer."Maximizing Information from Residential Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2013).

Pendleton, Linwood, Thomas R Karl, and Evan Mills."Economic Growth in the Face of Weather and Climate Extremes: A Call for Better Data."Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 94 (2013). DOI

Sherman, Max H, and Erin L Hult."Impacts of Contaminant Storage on Indoor Air Quality: Model Development."Atmospheric Environment 72 (2013) 41-49. DOI

Noris, Federico, William W Delp, Kimberly Vermeer, Gary Adamkiewicz, Brett C Singer, and William J Fisk."Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments."Energy and Buildings 61 (2013) 378-386. DOI

Singh, Reshma, Dale A Sartor, and Girish Ghatikar."Best Practices Guide for High - Performance Indian Office Buildings." (2013) 53.

Rapp, Vi H, Albert Pastor-Perez, Brett C Singer, and Craig P Wray."Predicting Backdrafting and Spillage for Natural-Draft Gas Combustion Appliances: Validating VENT-II." (2013). DOI

Walker, Iain S, Max H Sherman, Jeffrey Joh, and Wanyu R Chan."Applying Large Datasets to Developing a Better Understanding of Air Leakage Measurement in Homes."International Journal of Ventilation 11.4 (2013) 323-338.

Robinson, Alastair."Zone Level Occupant-‐Responsive Building Energy Systems at the GSA." (2013).

Bhangar, Seema, Brett C Singer, and William W Nazaroff."Calibration of the Ogawa Ozone Passive Sampler for Aircraft Cabins."Atmospheric Environment 65 (2013) 21-24. DOI

Parrish, Kristen, Alastair Robinson, and Cynthia Regnier."Commercial Buildings Partnerships – Overview of Higher Education Projects." (2013).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Effect of Ventilation Strategies on Residential Ozone Levels."Building and Environment 59 (2013) 456–465. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M, Max H Sherman, Iain S Walker, and Brett C Singer."Energy Impacts of Envelope Tightening and Mechanical Ventilation for the U.S. Residential Sector."Energy and Building 65 (2013) 281-291. DOI

O'Donnell, James, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, Cynthia Regnier, Kristen Parrish, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Transforming BIM to BEM: Generation of Building Geometry for the NASA Ames Sustainability Base BIM." (2013).