Escondido Roofing Contractor and General Contractor Mark Anthony

In a development outside Knoxville, Tenn., four houses are being constructed that will put to the test much of what's new in energy-saving products for the roof and home.
Each house has approximately 400 sensors that will collect data for a period of two years, in order to provide valuable insights about how well products stack up to their energy-saving claims and work together to achieve a targeted 50 percent reduction in energy use.
On this basis alone, "it's a ground-breaking project," said Dr. Bill Miller, a Senior Research Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and project manager of the team that came together as the ZEBRAlliance (Zero Energy Building Research Alliance) to build the test homes.
Team members also include local builder Schaad Construction and architects Barber McMurry Inc., with funding from the Department of Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority.
Dr. Miller said while people have set up demo homes and tested a roof or a window, up to now, "no one has ever taken the initiative of documenting how it all merges together."
ZEBRAlliance has identified the roof as a hot spot for energy savings.
"It's the first line of defense against the environment and sees the greatest extremes of temperature," Miller said.

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