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Building America subject matter expert technical support for construction and building-envelope retrofits

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America program seeks expert technical support for new construction and building-envelope retrofit work. - Government buyer and program - U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI), Building Technologies Office (BTO), supporting the Building America program. - The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), managed by Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC, is conducting the solicitation and will administer the work. - Requested service - Subject matter expert technical support for new construction and existing-building envelope retrofits, including research, testing and field validation, modeling and analysis, data collection, industry and market analysis, and technical guidance and outreach. - Focus areas include industrialized construction and factory optimization, product and materials innovation, digital tools, energy and hygrothermal modeling, and retrofit challenges involving moisture, humidity, and air infiltration. - Deliverables may include guidance, best practices, publications, datasets, tools, training, and other actionable information for builders, manufacturers, contractors, and industry stakeholders. - Quantity and performance - The solicitation anticipates up to 10 firm-fixed-price subcontracts. Work will be assigned through individual work orders, with specific tasks and deliverables defined for each assignment. - Each subcontract is expected to have a 12-month base period and four 12-month options, for up to five years. Expected funding is approximately $100,000 per year per subcontract, with a stated five-year ceiling of $500,000 per subcontract. - Vendors and products - Named organizations include National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) and Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC. The subcontractor is not identified. - No OEMs, commercial products, product quantities, or product part numbers are specified.

Description

NLR seeks to engage leading technical subject matter experts (SMEs) to help buildings industry stakeholders scale up and meet demand for lower-cost, high-quality buildings. SMEs will support DOE’s Building America program, both its just-launched new construction support program and existing support programs for building envelope retrofits.

The new construction support program will provide technical assistance to help partners erect high-quality buildings faster and at lower cost, ultimately delivering savings to everyday Americans. NLR seeks leading subject matter experts (SMEs) in research, field validation, analysis, dissemination, and technical support efforts to help builders, manufacturers, contractors, and other industry stakeholders scale up and meet demand. This work will focus on factory optimization, product design and materials innovation, and digital tools and modeling.

For envelope retrofits, this work will help reduce first costs and lower utility bills in existing homes by focusing on technical topics including, but not limited to, addressing moisture, humidity, and infiltration through envelope upgrades and whole-home solutions.

Across both areas, SMEs will also conduct modeling and analysis, data collection, industry analysis, and market scaling support. This work will include knowledge transfer to provide actionable guidance and information to industry stakeholders.

For over 30 years, DOE’s Building America Program has been a source of innovations and best practices needed to deliver affordable and efficient homes. NLR supports DOE’s Building America Program through scientific leadership and building science expertise to ensure high-quality, impactful results from Building America’s research efforts.

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