In this phase II project, universal scheduling and booking LLC (USB) proposes to produce prototype machine learning home efficiency guides that seeks to accelerate the adoption of new technologies…

Universal Schedule & Booking LLC (USB) received a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), awarded October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2027. Under this Phase II project, USB will develop machine learning-driven home efficiency guides designed to accelerate residential energy efficiency adoption. The deliverables include high-accuracy, data-driven guides that provide homeowners with stepwise guidance for energy efficiency upgrades focused on HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) equipment and appliances, as well as market-driven incentives and financial resource frameworks to improve affordability for homeowners undertaking these upgrades.

The project aims to transform the U.S. residential building inventory toward higher efficiency and grid resilience while benefiting manufacturers, financial institutions, governments, and nonprofit organizations. Intended beneficiaries include financial lenders, residential consumers (initially homeowners), equipment and building services industries, and utilities and state/local governments. USB will conduct this work in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, with a subward to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to support project activities.

Activities

Activities to be performed during this phase II project will include development of I) high accuracy data-driven guides on home-by- home bases to stepwise walk households through energy efficiency upgrades for HVAC equipment and/or appliances and; II) produce market-driven incentives and financial resources within personalization frameworks to assist homeowners with affording the efficiency upgrades.

Expected outcomes

The guides to be developed by USB will accelerate the adoption of new technologies that are more efficient, from equipment to materials, enabling a faster transformation of the US residential building inventory as high efficiency and a more resilient grid that benefits US manufacturers, finance industry, governments, and nonprofit organizations.

Intended beneficiaries

Intended beneficiaries of this phase II project include financial lenders, residential consumers - initially homeowners, equipment and building services industries, and utilities and state/local governments.

Subrecipient activities

USB intends to provide a subward to texas a & M engineering experiment station.