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The latest resources for the home and building performance industry

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

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ACEEE: Topic Briefs: Upgrading Manufactured Homes

This set of three topic briefs identifies key federal funding opportunities that states and utilities can use to support retrofit and replacement programs for manufactured housing.

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DOE: Better Buildings Residential Network Peer Exchange Calls

The Better Buildings Residential Network connects energy efficiency programs and partners to share best practices and learn from one another to increase the number of homes that are energy efficient.

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EPA: Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Resources

EPA offers IAQ resources to improve indoor air quality in homes and buildings.

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ACEEE: Building Policies and Codes

In this resource, ACEEE describes policies that lawmakers can use to help reduce energy use in the building sector.  

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IAQ Radio: COVID, IoT, Wildfires & IAQ

IAQ Radio welcomes Dr. Jovan Pantelic, Ph.D. Research Scientist at WELL Living Lab for a show on COVID, IoT, Wildfires and IAQ.

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RMI: State-Level Building Electrification Factsheets

RMI has created a series of state-specific factsheets designed to inform policymakers, advocates, and other stakeholders on the core building electrification issues.

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Energy Circle: How to Talk to Homeowners About Building Science

Building science is just that—a science—and many of the home health and comfort issues that homeowners face involve complex information and techniques that can be difficult to understand. To make the communication process easier, read these tips.

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Passive House Accelerator: Minimize, Maximize or Balance: Designing for Net Zero on an Urban Site

This presentation provides insights on when to minimize or maximize certain design factors and emphasizes the critical role of balance in multifamily, high-performance, high-density projects.

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Mass Save: The Inflation Reduction Act FAQs

FAQs about 25C Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit and 25D Residential Clean Energy Property Credit.

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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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