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A guidebook helping builders in hot-humid climates design and construct homes for energy efficiency, durability, health, safety, and comfort.

Updated wildfire risk assessment, community impacts, and building science measures following the disastrous 2020 wildfire season in the western U.S.

Report from FEMA on how to reduce damage from localized flooding including planning, drainage, building codes and retrofits, and regulations.

Report describing the analytical study of renewable energy retrofits to homes built before 1980 and whether it is cost efficient or not.

Fact sheet poster describing an online tool offered within the Building America Solution Center which provides construction guidance for builders and contractors in building and renovating homes to be more resistant to natural disasters such as hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes and wildfires, etc.

Report providing product manufacturers, fabricators, contractors and installers, design professionals, owners, and real estate developers with technical performance and cost guidance for scalable zero-carbon-aligned new construction pathways and retrofit packages to achieve zero carbon retrofits and...

Newsletter containing five articles focused on seismic retrofitting.

Website describing ways to prevent home house fires.

Website providing resilient housing articles that relate to codes, including webinars, training, and guest articles.

Website containing links to key wildfire codes and standards.

Website providing links to building codes, seismic codes, code enforcement, safe buildings, and seismic retrofitting.

Report identifying codes and standards that embody the concepts of resiliency.

Fact sheet describing residential tornado safe room doors.

FEMA guidance for flood damage in areas prone to flooding.

Website summarizing wildland codes and standards, including related NFPA codes and standards.

Residential building code for the State of Florida.

Products and specification for a State of California-compliant earthquake-actuated automatic gas shutoff valve.

Report explaining the principles of seismic design to architects.

Website describing the USRC, which "brings an unparalleled level of capability to the mission of improving community resilience in the built environment."

Website describing the RELi rating system and leadership standard that takes a holistic approach to resilient design.

Website providing a link for purchasing NFPA 914, Code for the Protection of Historic Structures.

Code set from IAPMO explaining plumbing standards. 2018 publication.

Code set from IAPMO explaining plumbing standards. 2012 Publication.

Code set from IAPMO explaining plumbing standards. 2015 publication.