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Website containing commercial information related to air conditioning and heating.

Webpage from U.S. Department of Energy describing using Earth-Sheltered home building techniques in hot climate zones.

Report about opportunities for ventilation when traditional methods are limited by weather conditions or by contaminants in the outdoor air.

American Lung Association web page providing information on particulate matter and indoor air quality.

Article discussing fire safety for high-rise buildings.

Standard that describes the minimum requirements for residential buildings to achieve acceptable indoor air quality via dwelling-unit ventilation, local mechanical exhaust, and source control. This version of the standard was published in the year 2022, and is available for preview and purchase at...

Presentation describing how to make a Corsi-Rosenthal Box for air cleaning.

Article describing a DIY air cleaning system for filtering smoke and viruses.

Blog article summarizing the effects of extreme heat on air quality and lung health.

Webpage with data on the 20 largest wildfires in California that occurred between the year 1932 and present day.

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...

Article describing the impacts of wildfire smoke on indoor air quality and some ways ASHRAE is responding.

Article describing ways to design and construct a building to resist wildfires.