TO ZERO AND BEYOND: Zero Energy Residential Buildings Study. 2016 Inventory of residential projects on the path to zero in the U.S. and Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Buildings and their energy use account for 41% of carbon emissions in the United States (DOE 2011). The goals set out at the last United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP22) call for keeping the global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In order to meet this imperative, the World Green Building Council (WGBC), in its recently published report, “From Thousands to Billions,” states that all new buildings must operate at net zero carbon by 2030 and 100% of ALL buildings must operate at net zero carbon by 2050. The next few years will be pivotal for the growing zero energy movement, with new cities and states adopting zero energy and zero carbon policies, solar costs plummeting to new record lows, and growing demand globally for zero energy buildings. Lux Research projects zero energy buildings and nearly-zero energy buildings will grow to a $1.3 trillion market by 2025. This illuminates a major market opportunity for the entire construction industry that will be driven and accelerated by NZEC’s collective action efforts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".