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Website providing CAD files and drawings of advanced framing details.

Article from Green Building Advisor on strategies to take when building homes to reduce the need for air conditioning, including insulation, windows, site selection, and roofing.

Factsheet profiling a simple modification that can be made to window air-conditioners to improve their energy efficiency.

Webpage explaining how to mitigate heat loss through roofs for ice dam prevention.

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.

DOE report characterizing the installed base of windows and window coverings, and how users operate window coverings in order to enable precise quantification of energy savings.