The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $31.8 million for seven project teams that will demonstrate how advanced construction techniques integrated with energy-efficient technologies and practices can seed the next generation of low-carbon building retrofit solutions.

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The 130 million buildings in the United States today—75% of which are expected to still be standing in 2050—collectively rank as the sixth largest greenhouse gas emitter globally. Adding to that the tens of millions of new homes expected to be built by 2050, it’s clear that business-as-usual construction and renovation practices are not sufficient to address the climate crisis.

As developers and contractors look for leaner and more integrative approaches, a set of solutions that can deliver deep energy savings from America’s existing buildings has begun to emerge. The DOE Building Technologies Office’s Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Initiative is working to change the way buildings are constructed and renovated, and helping us get closer to our nation’s goal of decarbonizing our building stock by 2050.

ABC focuses on developing industrialized construction innovations that can quickly deliver efficient, affordable, and appealing new buildings and retrofits at scale. Pairing approaches like offsite factory-based construction with advanced building technologies, such as prefabricated high-performance wall panels and packaged HVAC and water heating pods, ABC seeks to enable rapid deployment of advancements in the construction sector—changes that can simultaneously help modernize the sector and address the climate crisis.

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Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)