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AC Comfort
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Website containing commercial information related to air conditioning and heating.
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NREL,
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy,
EERE
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Fact sheet describing best strategies to bring ductwork on single-story homes with a slab-on-grade foundation in hot, dry climates into the conditioned envelope of the home intending to highlight the pros and cons of multiple ductwork integration strategies, including traditional duct systems in...
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ASHRAE,
American National Standards Institute,
ANSI
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Standard that provides procedures and methods for meeting minimum ventilation and indoor air quality requirements to engineers, design professionals, owners, and jurisdictional authorities where model codes have been adopted. This is the current version of the standard, which was published in the...
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Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems,
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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Technical report describing algorithms that use communicating thermostat heating data and that were developed to optimize customer adoption of energy conservation measures, enhancing the identification of retrofit opportunities, estimating post-retrofit energy savings, and enabling home-specific...
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NEHRP,
FEMA,
Cal OES,
SCEC,
Earthquake Country Alliance,
ECA
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Factsheet describing methods for securing HVAC units to avoid damage during an earthquake.
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DOE
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Article describing how evaporative coolers work and how to maintain them.
Organization(s)
Pima County Public Library
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Web article describing the evolution of evaporative coolers, water usage of evaporative coolers, and links to information on selecting an evaporative cooler.
Organization(s)
BetterBuiltNW,
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance,
NEEA
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Software tool available free online that can help calculate heating and cooling requirements to accurately size HVAC equipment in as little as 15 minutes.
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U.S. Department of Energy
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Web page providing an overview of room-level air conditioning systems such as window units and mini-splits.