The demographic growth has encouraged and promoted an increase in the consumption of natural resources, such
as water, soil, and energy in housing construction. The settlements in regions with unfavorable weather conditions
require a consumption to achieve a state of comfort, which could represent, for the poorest families, an
expenditure equivalent to the payment of their home mortgages. On the other hand, the need of reducing energy
consumption encouraged the government to establish different programs aimed to achieve this objective. With the
purpose of evaluating the efficiency of a program implemented by the Fideicomiso para el Ahorro de Energía
(FIDE), the Tec de Monterrey conducted, with resources from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
(CONACYT) and the Comisión Nacional de Fomento a la Vivienda (CONAFOVI), a pilot project in the city of
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. This paper reports the results obtained from monitoring during one year, the
humidity and temperature both on the inside and outside of 10 houses in a social interest development, as well as
the relationship with the energy consumption reported by the Federal Commission of Electricity, CFE.
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