The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing Year 2000 Progress Assessment of the PATH Program (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Program Goals and Objectives
Program Goals and Objectives
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Cut the environmental impact and energy use of new homes by 50 percent or more, and reduce energy use in at least 15 million existing homes by 30 percent or more.
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Strategy and Operating Plan also notes that the president has "charged the program with developing technologies, housing components, designs, and production methods that will reduce the time needled to move quality technologies to market 50 percent by the year 2010" (HUD, 2000~. Several approaches to achieving the PATH goals couIc!
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in addition, the housing industry must address barriers to technology adoption, including building codes, standards, and regulations, as well as technology-transfer mechanisms to manufacturers, builders, and consumers. Environment and Energy The second PATH goal is to reduce the adverse environmental impact and reduce energy use of new homes by 50 percent or more and to reduce energy use in at least 15 million existing homes by 30 percent or more.
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20 YEAR 2000 PROGRESS ASSESSMENT OF THE PATHPROGRAM could be used to set benchmarks for evaluating reductions in energy use in new and existing homes. Durability .
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. It will be extremely difficult to establish a baseline for measuring year-to-year improvements, and the committee believes that PATH should make every effort to use all government and commercial data sources to develop credible baselines for property losses due to natural hazards.
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Thirst, it is common knowledge that residential construction is more fragmented than the other major subdivisions of the industry, which creates a major barrier to obtaining information on resiclential construction. Although OSHA data indicate the general scope and magnitude of the problem for the residential industry, they do not provide sufficient detail to determine the incidence rates by job category for residential accidents and workplace deaths.
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The fourth goal is to reduce by at least 10 percent the risk of loss of life, injury, and property destruction from natural hazards and decrease by at least 20 percent illnesses and Injuries to resldent1al construction workers. Although the committee believes that substantial improvements could be made in both protecting the health and safety of workers on residential construction sites and protecting homes from natural disasters, progress toward meeting the goal will be difficult to assess because it encompasses two unrelated aspects of housing technology.
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In reality, this creates more of a logical than a practical dilemma, but it underscores the difficulty of concurrently achieving inherently conflicting goals. Targeting PATH programs almost exclusively toward new single-family homes, when existing housing makes up the majority of the nation's housing stock, will create another barrier to achieving all PATH goals.
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. Goal A: Reduce the average monthly costs of new housing built in 2010 by 20 percent or more, relative to homes built from 1990 through 1997, where this reduced monthly housing cost reflects a 50-percent reduction in energy costs; a 50-percent reduction in maintenance and replacement costs; and at least a 10-percent reduction in construction ant!
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The Industry Implementation Plan for the Resiclential National Construction Goals. Upper Marlboro, Md.: National Association of Homes Builders Research Center, Inc.
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2000a. The American Housing Survey, 1997.
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