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Report evaluating opportunities to improve and streamline delivery of residential retrofit measures.

A website issuing watches, warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous tropical weather and increasing the understanding of hazards.

Website sponsored by DOE to provide consumers with intelligent and unbiased guidance on the best window covering for your climate, your needs, and your windows.

Study from Appalachian State University on passive solar design to take advantage of local climate zones for energy conservation.

Technical article describing issues and moisture concerns related to weatherization efforts.

Article describing considerations for choosing a room-level air cleaner to improve indoor air quality.

Document providing guideance and considerations for duct design in an energy efficient house.

Reference investigating the strategy of using buried and/or encapsulated ducts to reduce duct thermal losses in residential buildings.

A website providing information on the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Solution Center, a source for innovations in residential building energy performance, energy efficiency, quality, affordability and comfort for more than 20 years.

Research report presenting results of short term tests on measures used in an energy efficiency retrofit project in California.

Document providing step-by-step guidance to sizing air-source heat pumps for a cold climate.

Design guide providing solutions and tools for designing central heat pump water heater systems in multifamily and other commercial buildings.

Report describing the use of passive vents as a source of outdoor air in multifamily buildings.

Report with guidance for installing windows with foam sheathing on wood-frame walls.

Document containing some of the basic characteristics for energy performance, durability, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality that should be met in all high performance homes.

Report providing information about laboratory testing of four residential window air conditioners.

Report explaining the issues and concerns with conventional ventilated crawlspaces and to outline prescriptive measures for improvements that will create healthier and more durable spaces.

Document about development of a new test procedure to increase the quality and accuracy of energy analysis tools for the building retrofit market.

Article describing a research study exploring how effective interior insulation systems are at keeping basements dry and warm.

Research study describing a detailed 3D computational fluid dynamics model that evaluates the thermal performance of uninsulated wall assemblies.

Report presenting system design packages for cold and mixed-humid climates.

Report investigating what motivates remodelers to become energy-focused and what technical knowledge that need to be energy-focused.

Information sheet discussing the differences between homeowner energy consumption trends in highly efficient homes.

Report providing strategies to support occupant behavior changes for enhancing resilience, and to reduce a building's vulnerability to extreme weather, climate change, and loss of power.

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

Article describing correct ways to attach rigid insulation to the exterior of commercial and residential buildings.

Webpage providing mapping tool for obtaining ground snow load, based on ASCE 7-10, for any location in the contiguous United States, with the exception of locations requiring a case study due to extreme local variations in ground snow loads. Fee required for some data.

This page provides important information on how to protect yourself and your family if you suspect that you might have vermiculite insulation from Libby, Montana.

Report on on lessons learned from building one multifamily home to the Zero Energy Ready Home program requirements.

Report providing guidance on how to implement a compact duct system inside a plenum truss bulkhead of a one-story, slab-on-grade home.