Publications

2022

Casquero-Modrego, Nuria, WR Chan, Brennan Less, and Iain S. Walker."Getting to Scale for Decarbonizing Homes in the US: An Industry Survey."SBE22Delft - Innovations for the Urban Energy Transition: Preparing for the European Renovation Wave (2022). DOI
Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, David M. Lorenzetti, Michael D. Sohn, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Compartmentalization and Ventilation System Impacts on Air and Contaminant Transport for a Multifamily Building."Buildings XV Conference (2022).
Less, Brennan, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Iain S. Walker."Home Energy Upgrades as a Pathway to Home Decarbonization in the US: A Literature Review."Energies (2022). DOI
Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Leo I. Rainer."The Costs of Home Decarbonization in the US."Proceedings of the 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. (2022).
Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Pathways to Home Decarbonization."Proceedings of the 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. (2022).
Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, David M. Lorenzetti, and Michael D. Sohn."Analysis of Zoned Residential Ventilation Systems."AIVC/ASHRAE IAQ 2020 Conference (2022).
Kolsch, Benedikt, Iain S. Walker, Woody Delp, Bjorn Schiricke, and Bernhard Hoffschmidt."Comparison of Airflow and Acoustic Measurements for Evaluation of Building Air Leakage Paths in a Laboratory Test Apparatus."AIVC/ASHRAE IAQ 2020 Conference (2022).
Walker, Iain S., and Benedikt Kolsch."Reducing Wind Sensitivity for Blower Door Testing."AIVC/ASHRAE IAQ 2020 Conference (2022).
Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Carbon and Energy Cost Impacts of Electrification of Space Heating with Heat Pumps in the US." (2022). DOI

2021

Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, David M. Lorenzetti, and Michael D. Sohn."Development of Advanced Smart Ventilation Controls for Residential Applications."Energies (2021). DOI
Walker, Iain S., Paul Francisco, and Eric Werling."Reducing COVID-19 Transmission in Homes."Building Performance (2021).
Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Emerging Pathways to Upgrade the US Housing Stock: A Review of the Home Energy Upgrade Literature." (2021).
Chan, Wanyu R., Brennan Less, and Iain S. Walker."DOE Deep Energy Retrofit Cost Survey." (2021).
Singer, Brett C., Wanyu R. Chan, William W. Delp, Iain S. Walker, and Haoran Zhao."Effective Kitchen Ventilation for Healthy Zero Net Energy Homes with Natural Gas." (2021).
Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Leo I. Rainer."The Cost of Decarbonization and Energy Upgrade Retrofits for US Homes." (2021).

2020

Zhao, Haoran, Wanyu R. Chan, William W. Delp, Hao Tang, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Factors Impacting Range Hood Use in California Houses and Low-Income Apartments."International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (2020). DOI
Zhao, Haoran, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, William W. Delp, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Dataset: Indoor air quality in new and renovated low‐income apartments with mechanical ventilation and natural gas cooking in California." (2020). DOI
Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, David M. Lorenzetti, Evan Mills, Vi H. Rapp, Spencer M. Dutton, Michael D. Sohn, Xiwang Li, Jordan D. Clark, and Max H. Sherman."Smart Ventilation for Advanced California Homes." (2020).
Chan, Wanyu R., Yang-Seon Kim, William W. Delp, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Dataset: Indoor air quality in California homes with code-required mechanical ventilation." (2020). DOI
Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C. Diamond, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Tianzhen Hong, Kaiyu Sun, Paul A. Mathew, Iain S. Walker, Alan K. Meier, Erik Page, Jessica Granderson, Nan Zhou, and Peter Alstone."Chapter 2: Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector."World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues (2020). DOI
Kolsch, Benedikt, and Iain S. Walker."Improving Air Leakage Prediction of Buildings using the Fan Pressurization Method with the Weighted Line of Organic Correlation." (2020). DOI
Walker, Iain S., and Brennan Less."Measured Moisture Performance of Sealed and Insulated Attics with Permeable Insulation In California Homes."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings XIV (2020).

2019

Less, Brennan, Spencer M. Dutton, Iain S. Walker, Max H. Sherman, and Jordan D. Clark."Energy savings with outdoor temperature-based smart ventilation control strategies in advanced California homes."Energy and Buildings 194 (2019) 317 - 327. DOI
Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, Jonathan L. Slack, Leo I. Rainer, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Sealed and Insulated Attic Hygrothermal Performance in New California Homes Using Vapor and Air Permeable Insulation—Field Study and Simulations." (2019).
Clark, Jordan D., Brennan Less, Spencer M. Dutton, Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Efficacy of occupancy-based smart ventilation control strategies in energy-efficient homes in the United States."Building and Environment 156 (2019) 253 - 267. DOI