Library

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

Webpage listing ACCA Manual J and D calculation software that is approved by ACCA.

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

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

Article Describing methods for thermally isolating multifamily parking garages.

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.

Information sheet about air barriers.

Online calculator for estimating payback of adding additional insulation to your house.

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

A free tool used to calculate the required minimum flow rate of dwelling-unit ventilation.

Software enabling low-carbon planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting.

A CD guide intended to help communities mitigate damage or loss from tornadoes and other extremewind events, and provide public information resources for conveying the importance of safe room construction.

Tool determining the most economical and efficient photovoltaic array location and position.

Handheld solar site analysis tool capturing whole-horizon images for a site and generating shading analysis reports.