{"id":13805,"date":"2013-06-19T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T09:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=26304e76716432e9338bc0a77083628e"},"modified":"2013-06-19T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T09:11:17","slug":"is-nist-serious-about-net-zero-energy-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/is-nist-serious-about-net-zero-energy-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is NIST Serious About Net-Zero-Energy Homes?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Their report cites the need for a scoring system, but inexplicably fails to mention the HERS Index        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/nist-serious-about-net-zero-energy-homes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/NIST%20house%203%20-%20cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of NIST Net-Zero-Energy Residential Test Facility\" width=\"144\" height=\"113\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/nist-serious-about-net-zero-energy-homes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/net-zero-energy-strategy-report-nist-whole-building-design-table.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Table from the Strategies to Achieve Net-Zero-Energy Homes report\" width=\"144\" height=\"102\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/nist-serious-about-net-zero-energy-homes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/home-energy-rating-hers-index-scale_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HERS Index scale\" width=\"144\" height=\"197\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/\">National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/a> (NIST) still handles a lot of our basic numbers work, keeping lasers, hunks of metal, and atomic clocks that determine our standards of length, mass, and time. But it turns out they also have an interest in net-zero-energy (NZE) homes.<\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;ve built and outfitted an amazing NZE research facility, and they also have convened meetings of experts to develop guidelines for NZE homes. But there&rsquo;s something about their latest report I just don&rsquo;t understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3445,1439,4149,10552,3435,10553,4125],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-hers-index","tag-net-zero","tag-net-zero-energy","tag-nze","tag-resnet","tag-zeh","tag-zero-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}