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Article describing methods for venting a vented attic and a roof assembly over an unvented attic.

SPFA website signup page to access SPFA documents.

Document about testing software predictions of retrofit energy savings in existing homes.

Report summarizing the key opportunities, gaps, and barriers identified by the national laboratory white papers discussing long-term 50% energy reduction goals.

Article describing strategies for reducing the risk of ice dam formation on roofs in winter.

Report describing a simple and general way to generate House Simulation Protocol (HSP)-consistent internal sensible and latent loads in unoccupied homes.

Information sheet presenting the correct methods for building an insulated cathedral ceiling.

Report describing an analysis method for determining optimal residential energy efficiency retrofit packages and applies the analysis method to a 1960s-era home in eight U.S. cities.

Article describing how ice dams form on residential roofs, how they damage homes, and solutions to prevent future dams.

Website providing an online calculator for determining energy and cost savings from installing radiant barriers in attics.

Information sheet with the definition and uses for a raised truss.

Q&A article discussing how to address moisture issues in an attic in a wet and humid coastal climate.

Specifications to assist builders in designing and constructing homes equipped with a set of features that make the installation of solar energy systems after the completion of the home’s construction easier and less expensive.

Article describing ways to protect roofs from water infiltration by using self-adhering underlayment in vulnerable locations such as roof valleys, eave edges (to help deal with ice dams), rake edges, roofs to vertical walls (such as dormers), sidewall protection, the bottom of dormer valleys, and...