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Article describing methods for thermally isolating a garage in a Passive House-certified multifamily building.

Guide describing advanced framing, a system of construction framing techniques designed to optimize material usage and increase energy efficiency.

Report describing approaches to using less wood in home building that minimize waste.

Fact sheet describing advanced framing techniques that reduce the amount of lumber used in constructing wood-framed houses while providing more space for wall insulation.

Document reporting results from a study done to evaluate effects of automotive emissions from attached garages on the indoor environment.

Case study examining the problem of unwanted air transfer from garage to living space and the effectiveness of garage exhaust ventilation or house supply ventilation to provide a solution to that.

Report describing information for builders and retrofitters about eliminating hazards and coincidental energy losses that come from attached garages.

Brochure explaining the essential basis for advanced framing and some of the more common advanced framing details.

Article Describing methods for thermally isolating multifamily parking garages.

Report investigating implementation of advanced framing in both production and prototype built homes built in a variety of climate regions across the USA.

Document containing a 3D drawing (CAD) of advanced framing details.

Article in the SIPA Technical Bulletin (No. 11) comparing the earthquake resistance of light-frame wood shear wall construction to residential construction with structural insulated panels (SIPS).

Report comparing a high-performance house with a code-built control home.

Website describing results of research on impacts to garage doors from hurricanes, tornadoes, and high wind events.

Results from a research program testing airtightness, implications of air leakage and contaminant reduction over the garage-to-house interface.

Brochure describing advanced framing techniques.

Brochure describing advanced framing techniques.

Information sheet about air barriers.

Research study describing the impact resistance performance of advanced framed wall systems with insulating sheathing as the primary sheathing from wind blown debris.

Report describing ways to retrofit a home to make it more hurricane resistant.

A presentation about the need for rainscreens including the damage water and moisture ingress into a home’s siding and framing can cause, and ways to design a resilient wall that drains and ventilates well.