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The latest resources for the home and building performance industry

Our online resource library contains industry resources, including downloadable PDFs, webinar playbacks, videos, and reports. This library is continually updated to include the latest information and educational content.

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Building Performance Workshop: HVAC Duct Design: Manual D, Fittings, Friction Rate, Pressure Loss, & Static Pressure

Corbett Lunsford and HVAC design calculations trainer Alex Meaney talk about duct design calculations, the Manual D and ASHRAE ways.

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Passive House Accelerator: Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Passive House Design: Exploring the Importance of Airtight Grommets

This article focuses on the importance of airtightness: - Its role in construction - Its role in Passive House construction - Where air leakage occurs - How grommets work - The benefits of airtight grommets

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Energy Circle: Encircled Podcast: Talking Electrification with Zach Lawrence and Gabe Lieb of Efficiency First California

Listen to a discussion of the latest in California’s home electrification movement, including the state of rebate and incentive programs, and why what’s happening in California matters to contractors around the country.

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IAQ Radio: Keeping Our Buildings and Homes a Safe Oasis

With heat extremes, wildfires, hurricanes, heavy rains, train derailments, ozone action days, and other atypical environmental hazards becoming more frequent, it’s important that our buildings be prepared to provide a safe oasis.

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NEEP: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Opportunities for Community Building Energy Efficiency

This resource outlines building energy efficiency and electrification actions that NEEP recommends communities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic pursue, along with the funding opportunities that NEEP believes could be used to support them. 

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Healthy Indoors Magazine: July/August 2023

Read the July/August 2023 issue of Healthy Indoors Magazine online featuring their first 10 years and the next decade of IAQ.

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Webinar Playback: How to Implement the Top 10 Data Requirements Outlined in the IRA

Watch the playback from our webinar with Hancock Software, covering how you can implement the top 10 data requirements outlined in the IRA Home Energy Rebates Program

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ACEEE: 2023 Utility Energy Efficiency Scorecard

This report evaluates the energy efficiency achievements of the 53 largest U.S. electric utilities.

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IREC: Registered Apprenticeships Toolkit for Clean Energy Employers

This toolkit provides the background information and supplemental resources needed to implement Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAP) to develop a clean energy workforce.

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Efficiency First CA: Air Leakage Calculator

This tool will calculate CFM50 for any area of conditioned floor space.

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Build Show Build Boston: Blower Door Test

Learn about the process of running a blower door test

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Building Performance Workshop: Mystery Problems in New Home Solved by Builder Using Diagnostics

In this video, Corbett Lunsford and Scott True discuss using diagnostics to solve mystery problems in a new home.

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Energy Star: Federal Income Tax Credits and Incentives for Energy Efficiency

This website provides information on Federal income tax credits and incentives for energy efficiency for homeowners and builders.

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The White House: IRA Guidebook

This guidebook provides an overview of the clean energy, climate mitigation and resilience, agriculture, and conservation-related tax incentives and investment programs in the Inflation Reduction Act, including who is eligible to apply for funding and for what activities.

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DOE: Geothermal Heat Pump Information for Consumers

A list of resources to help consumers interested in installing a Geothermal Heat Pump for a home or business.

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