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Appendix C: Historical Case Studies of Technology Diffusion
Pages 54-61

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... housing market for a number of reasons, including low up-front costs, simplified installation, easy waste disposal, appealing appearance, and consistent availability and pricing. Regional bias is also a factor.
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... The preference of some builders for OSB over plywood illustrates the importance of promotion of a product and the development of performance standards by a trade association. Plywood, the once dominant structural pane} product, gained popularity because it provided significant labor savings, as well as improved structural rigidity and uniformity.
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... In the late 1960s, advances in adhesive technology brought southern pine plywood to resiciential builders. Southern pine plywood experienced a rapid growth phase, anc3 today it accounts for about half of all structural plywood.
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... The increase in OSB production is expected to lower prices for all structural panels. Reliable supplies, low prices, and reduced price volatility are expected to increase demand for OSB technology.
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... Exact market shares are closely guarded, but it is safe to say that five manufacturers sell 80 percent of Tjoists.
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... housing market because it is a durable product that lasts 15 to 20 times longer and uses less electrical energy than incandescent light bulbs, the product it replaces. Market penetration has been very slow because of the procluct's high first costs and relatively low energy prices.
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... CFEs are actually conventional fluoresecent lamps that have been reduced in size and configured in geometries that can be used in place of incandescent lamps. Performance CFL lamps have two distinct advantages over comparable incandescent lamps: a service life of 20,000 hours compared to 750 to 1,000 hours; and they provide the same light output as incandescent bulbs using less than 30 percent of the energy.
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... CFL lamps have the potential to become the lighting technology of choice in the future.
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  • cfl lamps
  • market share
  • structural plywood
  • vinyl siding
  • electrical energy

  • energy prices
  • structural panels
  • incandescent bulb
  • home owners
  • fluorescent lamps

  • wood siding
  • southern pine
  • incandescent bulbs
  • pine plywood
  • market shares

  • wood fibers
  • market penetration
  • engineered wood
  • maintenance costs
  • environmental concerns

  • compact fluorescent
  • manufacturing company
  • low prices
  • electronic ballasts
  • housing market

  • consistent availability
  • installed costs
  • light output
  • initial cost
  • water vapor


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