Form Approved
OMB No. 1901‐0302
Expires: December 31, 2009
Burden: 5 minutes (each participant)
Buildings Technologies Program
Website Customer Evaluation
Your opinion counts!
We want the Buildings Technologies Program website to be an educational, valuable, and reliable
resource for your buildings information needs. Please help us improve the Website 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.
1. What best describes your affiliation/organization? (Please 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: Please specify
1A. If you selected “Commercial business” in Question 1, what best describes your role/function?
(Please check only one answer.) If not, please proceed to Question #2.
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: Please specify
2. How often do you visit the Buildings Technologies Program Website, on average?
(Please check only one answer.)
This is my first visit
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Once every 3 months
Once every 6 months
Once a year
Other: Please specify
1
3. What tasks do you want to accomplish by visiting the Buildings Technologies Program Website?
(Please 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: Please specify
4. BTP has specific programs that focus on various sectors. What program areas are you most
interested in? (Please 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 research partnerships to improve energy efficiency of homes
Building Energy Codes—works to improve national model energy codes
Commercial Building Energy Alliances and Partnerships—guides research and encourage industry to
use energy‐efficient design and strategies
Net‐Zero Energy Commercial Building Initiative—aims to achieve marketable net‐zero energy
commercial buildings by 2025
EnergySmart Schools—improves energy efficiency in the nation's K‐12 schools
EnergySmart Hospitals—advances energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies for hospitals
Solar Decathlon—sponsors university student competition to design highly efficient solar‐powered
houses
Other: Please specify
5. Please rate your level of interest for each building type. (Please check one box per line.)
Very
Somewhat
Not
Building Type
interested interested
interested
New construction of commercial buildings
Retrofit of existing commercial buildings
New construction of residential buildings
Retrofit of existing residential buildings
6. Please rate your level of interest for each topic area. (Please check one box per line.)
Very
Somewhat
Not
Topic Area
interested
interested
interested
Appliances
Building envelope (windows, wall, roof)
Electric loads
Indoor air quality
Lighting and daylighting
Renewable energy (photovoltaics, solar
thermal, wind, geothermal heat pumps)
Site orientation
Space conditioning
Water heating
Whole building design
Other: please specify
2
7. How have you applied the information you have read on the Buildings Technologies Program
Website? (Please check all that apply.)
Used information for a new construction project
Used information for a retrofit project
Researched building technologies and practices
Forwarded information to colleagues
Visited Websites listed
Downloaded publications
Downloaded software tools
Responded to funding opportunity
Attended a Webinar
Other: Please specify
8. Please indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with the following aspects of the Buildings
Technologies Program Website. (Please check one box per line.)
Strongly
Strongly
Agree Neutral Disagree
Agree
Disagree
Feature
Easy to navigate
Effective and useful search function
Easy to read or scan
Accurate information
Useful information
Timely and up‐to‐date information
Primary information source for buildings
issues and news
9. How often do you use the following communication tools? (Please check one box per line.)
Haven’t yet, but
am interested in
Tool
Frequently Use Sometimes Use
Never Use
trying
Facebook
MySpace
LinkedIn
Twitter
RSS News Feed
Blogs
Mobile Applications
Wikis
You Tube
Other : Please specify
10. What suggestions do you have for improving the Buildings Technologies Program Website?
Please provide your comments.
3
The Buildings Technologies Program will use the responses to these questions as input to improve the
content and site architecture of its Website. No personal or corporate data submitted will be used for
marketing purposes or shared with any other organization.
(Please click on the button below to submit your response.)
Submit
4
Thank you for completing our survey! Your responses have been submitted.
If you are interested in being contacted for future surveys, please enter your email address in
the box below.
E-mail address: Enter email address here
Or, sign upto receive email
notices of special news, events, and live Webinars related to the Buildings Technologies
Program.
5