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Air Sealing: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners – Volume 10 This guide provides information to contractors and homeowners to identify ways to seal unwanted air leaks in homes, while ensuring healthy levels of ventilation and avoiding indoor air pollution. Details Bookmark & Share
Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 4; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Mixed-Humid Climate This guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the mixed-humid cli Details Bookmark & Share
Building America Best Practices Series Volume 14 - HVAC: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners This guide, which is part of a series of Best Practices guides produced by DOE’s Building America program, describes ways homeowners can reduce their energy costs and improve the comfort, health, and Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Managing the Drivers of Air Flow and Water Vapor Transport in Existing Single-Family Homes This document focuses on managing the driving forces that move air and moisture across the building envelope. While other previously published Measure Guidelines focus on elimination of air pathways, Details Bookmark & Share
Developing an Energy Performance Modeling Startup Kit In 2011, the NAHB Research Center began assessing the needs and motivations of residential remodelers regarding energy performance remodeling. This report outlines: the current remodeling industry and Details Bookmark & Share

Air Sealing: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners – Volume 10
This guide provides information to contractors and homeowners to identify ways to seal unwanted air leaks in homes, while ensuring healthy levels of ventilation and avoiding indoor air pollution. Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 4; Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Mixed-Humid Climate
This guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the mixed-humid cli Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series Volume 14 - HVAC: A Guide for Contractors to Share with Homeowners
This guide, which is part of a series of Best Practices guides produced by DOE’s Building America program, describes ways homeowners can reduce their energy costs and improve the comfort, health, and Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Managing the Drivers of Air Flow and Water Vapor Transport in Existing Single-Family Homes
This document focuses on managing the driving forces that move air and moisture across the building envelope. While other previously published Measure Guidelines focus on elimination of air pathways, Details Bookmark & Share

Developing an Energy Performance Modeling Startup Kit
In 2011, the NAHB Research Center began assessing the needs and motivations of residential remodelers regarding energy performance remodeling. This report outlines: the current remodeling industry and Details Bookmark & Share

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2011 EnergyValue Housing Award Report This report details the simulation tool(s) and energy modeling methodology followed in making the energy efficiency estimates, and documents the estimated performance of the EVHA award-winning houses Details Bookmark & Share
Building America Summer 2012 Technical Update Meeting Report This report summarizes key findings and outcomes from the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Summer Technical Update Meeting, held on July 24-26, 2012, in Denver, Colorado. Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Basement Insulation Basics This guideline is intended to describe good practices for insulating basements in new and existing homes, and to be a practical resource for building contractors, designers, and also to homeowners. Details Bookmark & Share
Developing an Energy Performance Modeling Startup Kit In 2011, the NAHB Research Center began assessing the needs and motivations of residential remodelers regarding energy performance remodeling. This report outlines: the current remodeling industry and Details Bookmark & Share
Housing Stock Characterization Study: An Innovative Approach to Measuring Retrofit Impact A residential energy efficiency retrofit loan program depends on a self-sustaining finance option and optimized retrofit measures that recoup their unsubsidized costs through energy bill savings alone Details Bookmark & Share

2011 EnergyValue Housing Award Report
This report details the simulation tool(s) and energy modeling methodology followed in making the energy efficiency estimates, and documents the estimated performance of the EVHA award-winning houses Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Summer 2012 Technical Update Meeting Report
This report summarizes key findings and outcomes from the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Summer Technical Update Meeting, held on July 24-26, 2012, in Denver, Colorado. Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Basement Insulation Basics
This guideline is intended to describe good practices for insulating basements in new and existing homes, and to be a practical resource for building contractors, designers, and also to homeowners. Details Bookmark & Share

Housing Stock Characterization Study: An Innovative Approach to Measuring Retrofit Impact
A residential energy efficiency retrofit loan program depends on a self-sustaining finance option and optimized retrofit measures that recoup their unsubsidized costs through energy bill savings alone Details Bookmark & Share