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A website explaining basic lighting principles and terms & how they are applied to the home.

Test results used by multiple structural insulated panel manufacturers confirming a one-hour fire rating for specific SIP assemblies.

News article describing the state of the residential battery storage market.

A website explaining lumens & how to compare the amount of light that lightbulbs can produce when shopping for replacements.

Web article describing many ways homeowners, contractors, and builders can make homes more resistant to hurricanes, tornadoes, high winds, floods, and hail.

Webpage featuring hundreds of illustrations of masonry construction details for brick, congrete, stone, tile, stucco, etc.

Website providing medical information about malignant mesothelioma, a cancer related to asbestos exposure.

Brochure discussing specific practices for mitigating moisture and mold during the construction process.

Brochure outlining what is covered under the National Flood Insurance Program

Report discussing the benefits of modern evaporative cooling systems for use in hot dry climate zones.

Webpage presenting updated maps for annual average temperature and precipitation in the contiguous U.S.

Report for local governments, planners, emergency managers, developers, insurers, and property owners describing ways to improve the wildfire resistance of buildings, infrastructure and communities in the wildland urban interface.

A list of EPA federal regulations regarding stationary sources of air pollution.

Website of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.

NFPA standard for indoor automatic fire sprinkler design and installation, focused on residential dwellings.

NFPA standard for indoor automatic fire sprinkler design and installation for low-rise residential occupancies.

Standard establishing criteria for levels of health care services or systems based on risk to the patients, staff, or visitors in health care facilities to minimize the hazards of fire, explosion, and electricity.

The Enhanced F-scale is a set of wind estimates (not measurements) based on damage which uses three-second gusts estimated at the point of damage based on a judgment of 8 levels of damage to the 28 indicators listed.

A website containing a video series by NW Seismic illustrating how a seismic retrofit should be done and ways they are done incorrectly.

Website providing comparison charts and reviews of off-grid inverters for solar power systems.

A website providing information on the purpose of burners and the components used in burners.

A webpage that provides wildfire preparedness and safety pictographs.

This study evaluated 11 measures for passive cooling using four heat resilience metrics with and without grid power in Fresno CA and found the two most effective measures were installing solar-control window films and adding roof insulation; natural ventilation also helped reduce overheating in...

City of Plymouth webpage providing information on the Plymouth Community Center Project.

Calculator to help in calculating pool volume.

Webpage offering recommendations to homeowners and contractors for retrofitting a home to make it more resistant to wildfires.

Fact sheet from Wisconsin Focus on Energy explaining how to prevent future ice dams on homes by learning about their formation and mitigation of contributing factors.

Report covering reducing risk from flooding.

List of recommendations from IBHS on how to protect homes from ice dam formation.

A website explaining the benefits of recycling compact fluorescent lightbulbs and how the process can prevent the release of mercury into the environment.

Website describing wildfire related research conducted by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety at the IBHS Research Center.

Table in the IRC describing bracing requirements for specified wind speeds and building story locations.

Technical report describing the research and development of the Ventilation-Integrated Comfort System (VICS) which is a specifically designed, energy-efficient solution that seamlessly integrates with low-capacity, ducted heating, and cooling systems, offering controllable, balanced energy recovery...

Website providing resources for seismic retrofits for builders and homeowners as well as city permit requirements from the City of Portland OR.

Fact sheet describing residential tornado safe room doors.

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

Article from the Institute of Biological Engineering describing reverse osmosis water softeners.

Guidance from HUD on how to restore homes following natural disasters in Puerto Rico.

Guidance from HUD on how to restore homes following natural disasters in Puerto Rico.

Report covering the planning, design, construction, and operation of residential and community safe rooms. Written for architects, engineers, building officials, local officials and emergency managers, and prospective safe room owners and operators.

A website calculator that can calculate how much you can save by switching to ENERGY STAR certified products.

Fact sheet for natural gas customers describing city’s seismic gas shut-off valve requirements.

Report promoting public safety and welfare by reducing the risk of earthquake-induced damage to existing homes.

Report from FEMA describing techniques for floodproofing structures.

Step-by-step guide demonstrating replacement window selection process.

A website providing information on how to properly size a water heater based on tank size, volume, peak hour demand and other factors.

Fact sheet describing field validations of a smart ventilation system to assess its effectiveness in assisting low-load homes in humid environments by maintaining acceptable indoor humidity conditions while ensuring adequate ventilation and indoor air quality.

Article describing building smoke control systems.

The website by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) National Water and Climate Center tracks snowpack sensor stations at multiple sites across the country providing an interactive US map of snow loads.