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Standard providing guidance on how to select, size, and locate the supply air diffusers, grilles and registers, and the return grilles.

Guide describing advanced framing, a system of construction framing techniques designed to optimize material usage and increase energy efficiency.

Report describing approaches to using less wood in home building that minimize waste.

Fact sheet describing advanced framing techniques that reduce the amount of lumber used in constructing wood-framed houses while providing more space for wall insulation.

Brochure explaining the essential basis for advanced framing and some of the more common advanced framing details.

Report investigating implementation of advanced framing in both production and prototype built homes built in a variety of climate regions across the USA.

Document containing a 3D drawing (CAD) of advanced framing details.

Article in the SIPA Technical Bulletin (No. 11) comparing the earthquake resistance of light-frame wood shear wall construction to residential construction with structural insulated panels (SIPS).

Report about field testing that characterizes the uniformity of room-to-room ventilation air distribution under various operating conditions by examining multi-zone tracer gas decay curves and calculating local age-of-air.

Brochure describing advanced framing techniques.

Brochure describing advanced framing techniques.

Research study describing the impact resistance performance of advanced framed wall systems with insulating sheathing as the primary sheathing from wind blown debris.

A presentation about the need for rainscreens including the damage water and moisture ingress into a home’s siding and framing can cause, and ways to design a resilient wall that drains and ventilates well.