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

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.

Fact sheet providing information on building-scale and utility-scale battery storage for disaster resistance.

Article Describing methods for thermally isolating multifamily parking garages.

Case study about the grid integration of electrical vehicle supply equipment.

Website for CEE, the US and Canadian consortium of natural gas and electric efficiency program administrators.

Technical report detailing the vulnerabilities of the U.S. electric grid to weather-related failures.

Report outlining how Smart ventilation controls (SVC) balance energy consumption, comfort, and IAQ by optimizing mechanical ventilation operation to reduce the heating and/or cooling loads, improve management of indoor moisture, and maintain IAQ equivalence according to ASHRAE 62.2.

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.

Report addressing the current state of these technologies and the challenges of adapting these to the GEB context.

Information sheet about air barriers.

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

Report evaluating mechanical AC precooling strategies in homes as a method for improving the load factor by shifting cooling operation from on-peak to off-peak hours.

Report describing use of the Energy in Modular (EMOD) method to design, produce, and deliver affordable, net-zero energy, low-carbon, and healthier buildings through industrialized (factory) construction of modular buildings; modeling of whole buildings and subassemblies of components, pods, panels...