Location: Borrego Springs, CA Units: 4 Single-family Homes Climate: Hot/Mixed Dry
Four highly-efficient desert homes with the same floor plan and different innovative wall and cooling systems were built in Borrego Springs, California where temperatures routinely exceed 100 °F 6 months of the year. BIRA is monitoring energy use through summer 2007 to collect data from two cooling seasons, as well as data on cost, construction schedule, production feasibility, energy efficiency, product lifecycles, embodied energy, and energy savings.
