Building Technologies Program: Web Site Feedback

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The Building Technologies Program Web site strives to be an educational, valuable, and reliable resource for your buildings information needs. Please help us improve the Web site by completing this short survey, which will take approximately 5 minutes to answer. All responses are confidential.

Please submit at least one answer for each question.

What best describes your affiliation/organization? (Check only one answer.)

Commercial business

Government — federal/state/municipal

Educational or research institution

Media

Consumer/private citizen/homeowner

Technical or trade association

Utility/Energy Service Company

Other

If other, please specify:

If you selected "Commercial business" in Question 1, what best describes your role/function? (Check only one answer.) If not, proceed to Question #3.

I build, engineer, or design commercial buildings

I manage a commercial business/building

I build, engineer, or design residential buildings (single or multifamily)

I manufacture supplies and/or equipment for the building industry

I manufacture appliances

Other

If other, please specify:

On average, how often do you visit the Building Technologies Program Web site? (Check only one answer.)

This is my first visit

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Once every 3 months

Once every 6 months

Once a year

Other

If other, please specify:

What tasks do you want to accomplish by visiting the Building Technologies Program Web site? (Check all that apply.)

Learn about building technologies

Keep up-to-date with news and events in the buildings industry

Learn about financial opportunities available through the government

Learn about and download software tools

Find information on Webinars and training

Locate publications

Other

If other, please specify:

The Building Technologies Program has specific programs that focus on various sectors. Which of the following are you most interested in? (Check all that apply.)

Appliances and Commercial Equipment Standards—develops test procedures and minimum efficiency standards for residential appliances and commercial equipment

Building America—forms residential research partnerships to improve energy efficiency of homes

Building Energy Codes—works to improve national building energy codes

Commercial Building Energy Alliances and Partnerships—works with industry partners such as hospitals, real estate companies, and retailers to improve energy efficiency

Net-Zero Energy Commercial Building Initiative—aims to achieve marketable net-zero energy commercial buildings and improve efficiency of existing buildings

Solar Decathlon—sponsors university student competition to design highly efficient solar-powered houses

Solid-State Lighting—targets improvements in the efficiency, performance, lifetime, and quality of light from light-emitting diodes

Other

If other, please specify:

Please rate your level of interest for each building type. (Select one answer per line.)

		Very interested	Somewhat interested	Not interested
a.	New construction of commercial buildings	New construction of commercial buildings	New construction of commercial buildings	New construction of commercial buildings


b.	Retrofit of existing commercial buildings	Retrofit of existing commercial buildings	Retrofit of existing commercial buildings	Retrofit of existing commercial buildings


c.	New construction of residential buildings	New construction of residential buildings	New construction of residential buildings	New construction of residential buildings


d.	Retrofit of existing residential buildings	Retrofit of existing residential buildings	Retrofit of existing residential buildings	Retrofit of existing residential buildings

Rate your level of interest for each topic area. (Select one answer per line.)

		Very interested	Somewhat interested	Not interested
a.	Appliances	Appliances	Appliances	Appliances


b.	Building envelope (windows, wall, roof)	Building envelope (windows, wall, roof)	Building envelope (windows, wall, roof)	Building envelope (windows, wall, roof)


c.	Electric loads	Electric loads	Electric loads	Electric loads


d.	Indoor air quality	Indoor air quality	Indoor air quality	Indoor air quality


e.	Lighting and daylighting	Lighting and daylighting	Lighting and daylighting	Lighting and daylighting


f.	Renewable energy (photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, geothermal heat pumps)	Renewable energy (photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, geothermal heat pumps)	Renewable energy (photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, geothermal heat pumps)	Renewable energy (photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, geothermal heat pumps)


g.	Site orientation	Site orientation	Site orientation	Site orientation


h.	Space conditioning (HVAC)	Space conditioning (HVAC)	Space conditioning (HVAC)	Space conditioning (HVAC)


i.	Water heating	Water heating	Water heating	Water heating


j.	Whole building design	Whole building design	Whole building design	Whole building design


k.	Other	Other	Other	Other

If other, please specify:

Indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with the following aspects of the Building Technologies Program Web site. (Select one answer per line.)

		Strongly Agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
a.	Easy to navigate	Easy to navigate	Easy to navigate	Easy to navigate	Easy to navigate	Easy to navigate


b.	Effective and useful search function	Effective and useful search function	Effective and useful search function	Effective and useful search function	Effective and useful search function	Effective and useful search function


c.	Easy to read or scan	Easy to read or scan	Easy to read or scan	Easy to read or scan	Easy to read or scan	Easy to read or scan


d.	Accurate information	Accurate information	Accurate information	Accurate information	Accurate information	Accurate information


e.	Useful information	Useful information	Useful information	Useful information	Useful information	Useful information


f.	Timely and up-to-date information	Timely and up-to-date information	Timely and up-to-date information	Timely and up-to-date information	Timely and up-to-date information	Timely and up-to-date information


g.	Primary information source for buildings issues and news	Primary information source for buildings issues and news	Primary information source for buildings issues and news	Primary information source for buildings issues and news	Primary information source for buildings issues and news	Primary information source for buildings issues and news

10.

How often do you use the following communication tools? (Select one answer per line.)

		Frequently Use	Sometimes Use	Never Use	Haven't yet, but am interested in trying
a.	Facebook	Facebook	Facebook	Facebook	Facebook


b.	MySpace	MySpace	MySpace	MySpace	MySpace


c.	LinkedIn	LinkedIn	LinkedIn	LinkedIn	LinkedIn


d.	Twitter	Twitter	Twitter	Twitter	Twitter


e.	RSS News Feed	RSS News Feed	RSS News Feed	RSS News Feed	RSS News Feed


f.	Blogs	Blogs	Blogs	Blogs	Blogs


g.	Mobile Applications	Mobile Applications	Mobile Applications	Mobile Applications	Mobile Applications


h.	Wikis	Wikis	Wikis	Wikis	Wikis


i.	YouTube	YouTube	YouTube	YouTube	YouTube


j.	Other	Other	Other	Other	Other

If other, please specify:

11.

What suggestions do you have for improving the Building Technologies Program Web site?

Are you interested in being contacted for future surveys?

Yes, please contact me for future surveys. E-mail address:
No, I do not wish to be contacted for future surveys.