Library

Energy Star web page providing guidance on attic ventilation.

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

Technical article describing issues and moisture concerns related to weatherization efforts.

Article describing the building science implications of insulating vented or unvented attics.

Article describing the research into insulating vented versus unvented attics.

Article describing the difference between conditioned or unvented attics and unconditioned or vented attics.

Webpage providing details of an experimental earth tube installation at the Clean Energy Exhibition in Georgia.

A guide for designers, architects, engineers, and fire experts on how to design rainscreen and ventilated cavities such that they don’t contribute to the spread of a fire.

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

Website providing an online directory of more than 3,600 residential ventilation products lisiting flowrates, sones, watts, and other performance metrics; all listed products have been tested by the Home Ventilating Institute.

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

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

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

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.