Resource Library
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mass Save: The Inflation Reduction Act FAQs
FAQs about 25C Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit and 25D Residential Clean Energy Property Credit.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
ACEEE: 2023 Utility Energy Efficiency Scorecard
This report evaluates the energy efficiency achievements of the 53 largest U.S. electric utilities.
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.
Efficiency First CA: Air Leakage Calculator
This tool will calculate CFM50 for any area of conditioned floor space.
Build Show Build Boston: Blower Door Test
Learn about the process of running a blower door test
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