In partnership with the private sector, state and local governments, national laboratories, and universities, the Building Technologies Program works to improve the efficiency of buildings and the equipment, components, and systems within them. The program supports research and development (R&D) activities and provides tools, guidelines, training, and access to technical and financial resources. The United States has many opportunities for energy and cost savings in its buildings. BTP is leading the way with advanced technologies for new and existing buildings.

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The Building Technologies Program offers a large collection of resources designed to deliver current, relevant information about energy efficiency for residential and commercial buildings. This page provides links to newsletters, publications, Webinars, training opportunities, software tools, and disaster recovery information.

Publications

Find publications on commercial and residential energy efficiency technologies and best practices on the Building Technologies Program’s publications Web page. See also Browse by Topic to find articles on relevant subject areas such as Biomass Program, Fuel Cells Technologies Program, and Vehicle Technologies Programs. etc.

Building E2 Newsletter

Read the Building Technologies Program quarterly online newsletter, Building E2 News, to stay informed about commercial and residential activities, technologies, events, and much more.

Science Accelerator is a gateway to science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available from OSTI as a free public service.

Access: Science Accelerator and Science Accelerator Widget

Search: provides the capability to search recent and legacy science research and development results, project descriptions, accomplishments, patents, scientific research data, journal literature, and scientific and technical software via resources from the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), US Department of Energy (DOE)

RSS: provides announcements about items of interest related to Science Accelerator

Alerts: provides access to the capabilities to register to receive Science Accelerator alerts and to login to manage your alerts.

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DOE Green Energy is a portal to information about various forms of green energy, including solar, wind, bioenergy, and others. This free search of green energy DOE technical report literature, green energy patent information, and much more is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Access:  DOE Green Energy

The High Performance Buildings Database is research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that seeks to improve building performance measuring methods by collecting data on various factors that affect a building’s performance, such as energy, materials, and land use. The database collects information from buildings around the world, ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods.

Access: High Performance Buildings Database from U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) National Transportation Library (NTL) joined Science.gov in 2009. Science.gov searches over 36 databases and 1,850 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

The DOT NTL Integrated Search has been added to both the basic search and the advanced search in Science.gov. The major subject areas of this source are highway and transportation engineering, statistics, planning, policies, and research.

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TRIS Online, which includes the disciplines of planning, finance, design and construction, materials, environmental issues, safety and human factors and operations for the modes of highways, transit, railroads, maritime and aviation. TRIS focuses on transportation research. NTL Digital Repository, primarily technical, research, and policy documents provided by federal, state, local, tribal, and other government agencies.

Science.gov is hosted by the U. S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), within the Office of Science.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of a Web site, DOepatents, which allows search and retrieval of information from a collection of more than 20,000 patent records. The database represents a growing collection of patents resulting from R&D supported by DOE. DOEpatents consists of bibliographic records, with full text where available via either a PDF file or an HTML link to the record at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch DOEpatents

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The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides free access to over two million science research citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. There are over 140,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1994 forward, available via the database. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. ECD was created and developed by DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

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