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tion organizations and home performance contractors across North America.
During his last months, Mr. Woods generously shared his life’s experience and
authored the material comprising Appendix E to this protocol.
This protocol would not have been possible without the support from the
U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM), particularly from
Mr. Paul Volkman, and from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
(Dr. Markku Virtanen). Drafts of this protocol were tested during energy as-
sessments conducted at multiple U.S. Army installations worldwide, and some
information drawn from these assessments is included here to illustrate the
principles discussed in this book. Many thanks go to personnel of these instal-
lations, who graciously hosted and supported these assessments. Appreciation
is also offered to the disparate editing staff whose help and dedication contrib-
uted to the quality of this document: Lori Martinsek, Theodore Young, and
William Wolfe.
International Energy Agency (IEA)
The International Energy Agency (IEA) was established in 1974 within the
framework of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) to implement an international energy program. A basic aim of the
IEA is to foster cooperation among the 24 IEA participating countries and to
increase energy security through energy conservation, development of alter-
native energy sources, and energy research, development, and demonstration
(RD&D).
Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems (ECBCS)
The IEA sponsors research and development in a number of areas related to
energy. In one of these areas, energy conservation in buildings and community
systems, the IEA is sponsoring various exercises to more accurately predict the
energy use of buildings, including comparison of existing computer programs,
building monitoring, comparison of calculation methods, energy management
systems, air quality maintenance, studies of occupancy, and in-depth evalua-
tion of the impact of the building enclosure on energy consumption.
The Executive Committee
Overall control of the program is maintained by an executive committee,
which not only monitors existing projects but also identifi es new areas where
collaborative effort may be benefi cial. The list of completed and new projects
that have been initiated by the executive committee on energy conservation
in buildings and community systems is available from www.ecbcs.org/annexes/
index.htm.