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BSC
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Document presenting some of the key technical properties of many of the most common building materials.
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Document providing guidance about building healthy homes using building science principles.
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Guidebook providing useful examples of high performance retrofit techniques for the building enclosure of wood frame residential construction in a cold and somewhat wet climate.
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL
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Document outlining the approach to quality assurance in the construction process as recommended by Building Science Corporation for new residential construction.
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BSC
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Document containing some of the basic characteristics for energy performance, durability, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality that should be met in all high performance homes.
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC,
U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Document identifying differences between the requirements for construction documents for high performance housing and the documents that are typically produced for conventional housing.
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BSC
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Report outlining a case study about a building project in the hot-humid climate zone.
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Report discussing Building America whole house systems research within the broad effort to reduce or eliminate the environmental impact of building and provides specific recommendations for future Building America research based on Building Science Corporations experience with several recent...
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC,
U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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This report describes how twenty homes were tested and monitored in the Zone 2 climate of Houston, Texas, U.S.A., to evaluate the humidity control performance and operating cost of six different integrated dehumidification and ventilation systems that could be applied by production homebuilders.