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Guide describing the requirements by FORTIFIED Home™ for improving the home's resistance to high wind and hail.
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Report from FEMA describing techniques for floodproofing structures.
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A builder checklist guide for the water management of properties with appropriately-designed building technologies.
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Video demonstration of proper concrete or clay tile roofing, including underlayment per Weather Proofing America guidelines.
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Video explaining the practicality behind the idea of wet floodproofing and its applications per LSU AgCenter guidelines.
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Standard that provides expanded and updated requirements for producing, marketing, and specifying plywood for construction and industrial uses.
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Webpage from FireSafe Marin explaining the different landscaping strategies near homes to lower the risk of a home's ignition from wildfire.
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Video presentation from the University of Nevada - Reno explaining how wildfires typically ignite structures and specific home retrofits homeowners can do to mitigate damage to their homes.
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Video from National Fire Protection Association dispelling myths about how wildfires usually ignite structures and explaining how fires typically do burn structures.
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Video presentation explaining how homeowners can protect their property and home from wildfire ignition through defensible space and home retrofits.
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Description webpage providing information about home fire safety during sever weather for consumers.
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Design guide providing technical information regarding building with thermal mass.
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Document providing guidance about choosing the correct caulk for a project.
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Document detailing how to build radon-resistant homes.
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Guide describing ways builders can block off entry points and otherwise make homes inhospitable to all manner of pests.
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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.
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An example of a commercially available thermally expansive fire stopping product for controlling the spread of fires in a rainscreen cavity.
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List of guidelines for plants and their fire resistance from FIRESafe Marin.
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Video presentation from the University of Nevada - Reno showing how to prepare a home and attached structures such as decks, surrounded by sagebrush for wildfires through steps such as defensible space, land maintenance, and materials selection.
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Video from CNBC and IBHS explaining how wildfires are becoming more common and how using tactics from IBHS can protect homes moving forward.
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Video presentation explaining how communities need to maintain vegetation near buildings and wildland areas by implementing successful defensible space.
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Report covering the rainwater performance of building assemblies.
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Article detailing a case study in which thermal mass was used as part of an overall Net Zero solution for a university building.
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PDF detailing the inspection and verification guidance for WaterSense labeled new homes including indoor and outdoor efficiency requirements, and homeowner and building management education.
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Video showing a mock wall assembly used in Hammer and Hand’s passive houses.
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Checklist providing recommendations for the right tape in order to reduce the risk of leaks during storms with wind-driven rain.
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Guide from Building Science Corporation on how to construct a flood and hurricane resistant home.
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Video from 10 Tampa Bay showing how subterranean termites can get into a home and two strategies to deploy to clear your home of termites.
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Fact sheet describing guidance for choosing appropriate materials and using proper construction practices when rebuilding, repairing, or renovating a home to increase its resistance to fires.