Stanley goes for a drive on a hot day in the countryside.

An almost unbearably hot day of one hundred degrees is transformed as raindrops fall one by one, culminating in a downpour.

This project investigates the energy performance and cost effectiveness of several state-of-the-art retrofit strategies that could be used in triple-deckers and colonial houses, common house types in New England. Several emerging building enclosure technologies were integrated, including high R-value aerogel and vacuum insulations, in forms that would be energy efficient, flexible for different retrofit scenarios, durable, and potentially cost-competitive...