QUALITY ASSURANCE AND COMMISSIONING PROCESS IN HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE (HEP) HOUSE IN NY STATE

High Environmental Performance (HEP), a demonstration house in NY State, is an advanced, low energy house built to represent the state of the art in housing technology available in year 2006. In a process similar to that used by the Building America program, a team representing four areas of expertise went though the design review and construction process identifying options for integrating mechanical services (HVAC) with the building enclosure. To assist in the process of material selection some testing was also performed at the University. Thus, the process of analyzing material, component and subsystems performance was detailed and led to a few improvements in construction details.