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Article summarizing for potential homeowners items to check or demand from the builder in designing a home for a cold climate.

Webpage providing an ENERGY STAR climate zone map and criteria for ENERGY STAR storm windows per climate zone.

ENERGY STAR webpage describing the benefits of storm windows and a link to a product list.

Website describing the national flood insurance program and how to purchase flood insurance.

Website helping communities address coastal issues with data, tools, and training resources.

Website providing links to scalable guidance and tools about the importance of earthquake mitiation to the private sector, its owners, managers, and employees.

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

Guide describing details that serve as a visual reference for each of the line items in the Water Management System Builder Checklist.

Website explaining the LEED v4.1 program and providing a portal for those who want to investigate or start a LEED project.

Guide describing details that serve as a visual reference for each of the line items in the Thermal Enclosure System Rater Checklist.

Catalog describing FEMA preparedness seminars from 2021 including preparedness and natural hazards topics.

A fact sheet educating homeowners on the importance of residential safe rooms, including their cost and how to register a safe room with local officials.

Website providing a compilation of guidance, case studies, tools, and training to assist local communities as they are in the midst of managing recovery post-disaster.

Report showing how to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially hazardous because of seismic hazards.

The RERH specifications and checklists take a builder and a project design team through the steps of assessing a home’s solar resource potential and defining the minimum structural and system components needed to support a solar energy system.

Case study describing Alachua County, Florida’s, green infrastructure strategy for land use development that incorporates rain gardens, ponds, swales, and native vegetation to manage stormwater.