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DOE
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Website with consumer information about residential heat pump systems.
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DOE
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DOE's consumer information about energy and laundry.
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DOE
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Online reference containing general information about geothermal heat pumps.
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Gas Technology Institute,
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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Technical report describing the enhancement of energy efficiency in existing buildings through a systems approach, assessing airflow-focused retrofits for improved energy savings and indoor air quality, considering factors like air leakage, distribution system dynamics, duct leakage, and ventilation...
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EPA
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ENERGY STAR website providing information about programs, products and energy efficiency information.
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EPA
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Website providing consumer information about ceiling fans, including specifications and buying guidance.
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EPA
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ENERGY STAR clothes dryer buying guidance for consumers.
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EPA
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ENERGY STAR criteria for clothes dryers.
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EPA
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ENERGY STAR Key product criteria for dishwashers.
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EPA
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Table of criteria for pool pumps to achieve ENERGY STAR certification.
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EPA
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The ENERGY STAR criteria for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers.
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EPA
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This report is designed to meet ASHRAE 62.2-2010/2013 and ANSI/ACCA’s 5 QI-2015 protocol, thereby improving the performance of HVAC equipment in new homes when compared to homes built to minimum code.
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EPA
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ENERGY STAR lightbulb criteria.
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EPA
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EPA's market report about residential clothes dryers.
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EPA
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ENERGY STAR specifications for residential window, door and skylights, Version 6, effective January 1, 2015.
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EPA
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ENERGY STAR webpage describing the benefits of storm windows and a link to a product list.
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EPA
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Webpage providing an ENERGY STAR climate zone map and criteria for ENERGY STAR storm windows per climate zone.
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ENERGY STAR
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Program criteria for residential exhaust fans used for ventilation.
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DOE
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Fact sheet describing principles of insulating steam distribution and condensate return lines as an effective way to prevent energy loss.
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Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)
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Standard supporting indoor air quality performance by producers, purchasers and policy makers to improve the environmental performance of products and services.
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EPA
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Website explaining the risks associated with radon in homes and how to protect homes against radon.
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USDA
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Report using relative humidity and temperature data from NOAA to measure average equilibrium moisture content for each month of the year in 262 locations in the United States and 122 locations outside the United States.
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DOE
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Information sheet with tools for estimating payback of adding additional insulation to your house.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL,
Colorado School of Mines
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Research study simulation adapting and applies the general framework described in Building Energy Simulation Test for Existing Homes for self-testing residential building energy model calibration methods.
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NORESCO
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Article describing RESNET guidance on evaporative coolers.
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Air Conditioning,
Heating and Refrigeration (ACHR) News
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Article describing benefits of ECM motors and how they can be installed as retrofit motors in HVAC equipment.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
LBNL
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Report on the performance of range hood exhaust fans.
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Extension Foundation,
Cooperative Extension System
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Homepage for Extension Foundation, a partner of the Cooperative Extension System, whose goal is providing an interactive learning environment delivering the best, most researched knowledge from the best land-grant university minds across America.
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DOE,
EPA
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Description
Information sheet about the benefits of purchasing and installing ENERGY STAR rated fans and ventilation products.
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LSU AgCenter
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Webpage from LSU AgCenter answering frequently asked questions after gutting a flooded home, including mitigation strategies for future floods.
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FEMA
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Report from FEMA on how to reduce damage from localized flooding including planning, drainage, building codes and retrofits, and regulations.
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FEMA
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Report from FEMA describing techniques for floodproofing structures.
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FEMA
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Guide discussing ways that homeowners in ground-secured houses can reduce the risks and damage caused by floods upon residential buildings.
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ATC,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
FEMA
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Report showing how to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially hazardous because of seismic hazards.
FEMA P-259, Engineering Principles and Practices for Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Structures
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FEMA,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Atkins Global,
URS Group,
Dewberry
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Comprehensive design guide describing the benefits and details of retrofit methods for buildings and equipment in flood-prone areas. Estimated costs are outdated due to publication date.
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FEMA
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Report describing for homeowners how to protect their homes from flooding, 3rd Edition.
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ATC,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
FEMA
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Description
Report providing retrofit measures intended to significantly reduce damage and increase occupant safety for existing buildings.
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FEMA
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Report providing guidance on how to improve the wind resistance of existing residential buildings in Mississippi and across the Gulf Coast.
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Johns Manville
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Information sheet providing detail about hand fabrication of a one-piece straight duct from a 48" x 120" x 1" thick (1.22 m x 3.05 m x 25 mm) sheet where the total inside duct dimensions equals 112" (2.84 m) or less.
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National Research Council Canada,
NRC
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Research study evaluating the dynamic heat transmission characteristics through two identical Insulating Concrete Form (ICF) wall assemblies in Ottawa, Canada.
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FESC
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Report comparing a high-performance house with a code-built control home.
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Journal article reporting on field experience of unvented cathedralized (UC) attics in several environments in the United States.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Report presenting the results from several demonstrations of a new method for sealing building envelop air leaks.
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Home Energy Magazine
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Journal article describing energy and cost savings potential from air sealing multifamily town homes.
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PEX Universe
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A webpage discussing how water heater expansion tanks operate and how to repair them.
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Florida Building Code
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Article presenting the 2008 update on the 2006 details on when required hurricane mitigation retrofits are required and the cost cap on required hurricane mitigation retrofits.
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Building Science Corporation,
BSC
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Journal article describing lessons learned from updating a 16-year-old deep-energy retrofit.
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EPA
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Detailed information about Formaldehyde including health effects and strategies to reduce exposure.
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IBHS Fortified Home
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Description
Website providing guides, standards, and references describing the requirements of the IBHS Fortified Home program to improve the disaster resistance of new and existing homes.
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IBHS
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Checklist providing prescriptive instructions on how to retrofit ladder framing on gable end overhangs to achieve a maximum depth of 18 in. from the face of the wall.