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Building Environmental Science and Technology Beyond Zero. Net Positive Energy Home Design Assessment Process Presented at: EcoBuild America 2010 (AEC/NIST sponsored) December 7, 2010 Residential buildings present significant challenges and opportunities for implementing total commissioning practices that help deliver superior performance, while representing a relatively small up-front investment in supplemental professional design support activities. A robust and dynamic design assistance "front end" represents a valuable opportunity to jump-start better QA/QC/QV* processes in residential construction. We explore in this conference session the art of the possible in advanced high performance homes, reviewing how builders and designers can be guided towards maximum potential performance using 21st century software tools to prototype net-positive energy home designs. The Net Positive Energy (NPE) Homes approach represents an innovative design and assessment protocol that helps deliver residential buildings that result in excess net annual energy (via renewable generated electric power on site) returned to the grid. The housing market turndown provides opportunities to push the envelope on sustainable residential design, and to create real value through advanced design processes. Read Technical Paper (click here) PDF (C. / Published by AEE). Download PPT Presentation Slide-image(click here) PDF (Copyright AEC/NIST EcoBuild America 2010) Notes * QA = quality assurance; QC = quality control; QV = qualify verification