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Community Development Corporation: Magna, UT

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House Design | Evaluation Methodology | Research Milestones

House Design

Two-story homes on adjacent lots with mirror-image floor plans. Each home has an attached garage.

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Evaluation Methodology

  • Side-by-side comparison in identical homes of 2-ton Freus water-cooled condenser and 2-ton conventional, SEER-14 air-cooled condenser
  • Steady-state performance testing to measure energy efficiency ratio (EER) performed on consecutive days having similar outdoor conditions but dissimilar indoor conditions

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Research Milestones

August 2005: Steady-state performance testing
March 2006: Final report