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2016

Iyer, Maithili, Hannah Stratton, Sangeeta Mathew, Satish Kumar, Paul A Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Review of Building Data Frameworks Across Countries: Lessons for India." (2016).

Mills, Evan."Action-Oriented Energy Benchmarking for Nonresidential Buildings."Proceedings of the IEEE 104.4 (2016) 697-712. DOI

Walker, Iain S, J Chris Stratton, William W Delp, and Max H Sherman."Development of a Tracer Gas Capture Efficiency Test Method for Residential Kitchen Ventilation." (2016).

Mills, Evan."Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting."Energy for Sustainable Development 30 (2016) 39-50. DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Peter Schwartz, and Travis Walter."Beyond Widgets – Systems Incentive Programs for Utilities."ACEEE (2016).

Granderson, Jessica, and Guanjing Lin."Building Energy Information Systems: Synthesis of Costs, Savings, and Best-practice Uses."Energy Efficiency (2016).

Singh, Reshma, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Rohini Srivastava, and Yash Shukla."Caring for the Energy Health of Healthcare Facilities U.S.– India Joint Center for Building Energy Research and Development (CBERD)." (2016).

Mathew, Paul A, Nancy Wallace, Elena Alschuler, and Leonard Kolstad."Commercial mortgages: An underutilized channel for scaling energy efficiency investments?."ACEEE (2016).

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, and Sara Ticci."Development of Smart Ventilation Control Algorithms for Humidity Control in High-Performance Homes in Humid U.S. Climates." (2016).

Mathew, Paul A, Philip Coleman, Nancy Wallace, Paulo Issler, Lenny Kolstad, and Robert Sahadi."Energy Factors in Commercial Mortgages: Gaps and Opportunities." (2016).

Mills, Evan."Green Residential Appraisals in the United States Context: Challenges and Opportunities."Journal of Sustainable Real Estate (2016).

Chan, Wanyu R, Randy L Maddalena, J Chris Stratton, Toshifumi Hotchi, Brett C Singer, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Healthy Efficient New Gas Homes (HENGH) Pilot Test Results." (2016).

Less, Brennan, and Iain S Walker."Smart Ventilation Control of Indoor Humidity in High Performance Homes in Humid U.S. Climates."ASHRAE (2016).

Curry, R, T Lopez, Evan Mills, J Moore, R Sahadi, and T Watkins."Valuation of Green and High-Performance Property: One- to Four-Unit Residential." (2016).

2015

Price, Phillip N, Mary Ann Piette, Jessica Granderson, and John Elliott."Automated Measurement and Verification of Transactive Energy Systems, Load Shape Analysis, and Consumer Engagement."GridWise® Architecture Council Transactive Energy Conference (2015).

Regnier, Cynthia, and Kevin Settlemyre."The Business of High Performance: The USC Darla Moore School of Business." (2015).

Price, Phillip N, Bruce Nordman, Mary Ann Piette, Richard E Brown, Janie Page, Steven Lanzisera, and Jessica Granderson."Automated Measurement and Verification and Innovative Occupancy Detection Technologies." (2015).

Turner, William J. N, Iain S Walker, and Jordan Roux."Residential Pre-Cooling: Mechanical Cooling and Air-Side Economizers." (2015).

Harding, Ari, Andrea C Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."A New Campus Built on Efficiency." (2015).

Settlemyre, Kevin, and Cynthia Regnier."Controlling Energy Performance on the Big Stage — The New York Times Company." (2015).

Regnier, Cynthia, Ari Harding, and Alastair Robinson."Achieving a Net Zero Energy Retrofit – in a humid, temperate climate – lessons from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y Custodio, Michael D Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, and David A Jump."Assessment of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Methods." (2015).

Touzani, Samir, Claudine Y Custodio, Michael D Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, Jessica Granderson, David A Jump, and Cody Taylor."M & V Shootout: Setting the Stage For Testing the Performance of New Energy Baseline."2015 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R Chan, Richard C Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N Price, David A Jump, Nathan J Addy, and Michael D Sohn."Automated Measurement and Verification: Performance of Public Domain Whole-Building Electric Baseline Models."Applied Energy 144 (2015) 106-113. DOI