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Single-Family Residential Field Study Toolkit

While the fundamental rules and procedures for implementing a single-family building energy code field study are found in the Single-Family Building Energy Code Field Study – Data Collection and Analysis Methodology, this toolkit contains additional resources and sample documents to assist project teams with implementing field studies. The toolkit builds off of more than a decade of DOE, PNNL, and project team experience to give future project teams a head start and help them overcome practical challenges.

The tookit is available for download, either as a complete set or as individual files and contains stakeholder kickoff meeting guide, agenda, presentation template, and materials; supplemental data Sources for home population generation and recruitment;  sample recruitment materials; a photo-documentation checklist; a field study data quality assurance checklist for project teams; a printable data collection form and information on how to complete the data collection form.

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Field Study Data Quality Assurance for Project Teams

Document Number: PNNL-SA-198369
Document Type: Checklist, Field Study, Single-Family Residential
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Field study project teams are required to perform quality assurance (QA) on the data they collect prior to sending it to PNNL for additional QA and analysis. This document provides a list of QA checks that project teams should perform.

Residential Field Study Photo Documentation

Document Type: Checklist, Field Study, Single-Family Residential
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This document contains checklists of items to photograph while onsite to help answer questions that may arise regarding the accuracy of entries in the data collection form. Questions may be raised during quality assurance reviews by the project team and PNNL. For each piece of data entered, it is a best practice to have photo-documentation to facilitate future validation of that value. Photographs are also extremely useful for subsequent training programs, field guides, and educational documents.