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Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 17 - Energy Renovations-Insulation: A Guide for Contractors to Share With Homeowners This guide will help contractors and homeowners identify ways to make their homes more comfortable, more energy efficient, and healthier to live in. It also identifies the steps to take, with the help Details Bookmark & Share
Advanced Strategy Guideline: Air Distribution Basics and Duct Design This report discusses considerations for designing an air distribution system for an energy efficient house that requires less air volume to condition the space. Considering the HVAC system early in t Details Bookmark & Share
Attic or Roof? An Evaluation of Two Advanced Weatherization Packages This project examines implementation of advanced retrofit measures in the context of a large-scale weatherization program and the archetypal Chicago brick bungalow. One strategy applies best practice Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Heat Pump Water Heaters in New and Existing Homes This Building America Measure Guideline is intended for builders, contractors, homeowners, and policy-makers. This document is intended to explore the issues surrounding heat pump water heaters (HPWHs Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Water Management at Tub and Shower Assemblies Due to the high concentrations of water and the consequential risk of water damage to the home’s structure a comprehensive water management system is imperative to protect the building assemblies unde Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 17 - Energy Renovations-Insulation: A Guide for Contractors to Share With Homeowners
This guide will help contractors and homeowners identify ways to make their homes more comfortable, more energy efficient, and healthier to live in. It also identifies the steps to take, with the help Details Bookmark & Share

Advanced Strategy Guideline: Air Distribution Basics and Duct Design
This report discusses considerations for designing an air distribution system for an energy efficient house that requires less air volume to condition the space. Considering the HVAC system early in t Details Bookmark & Share

Attic or Roof? An Evaluation of Two Advanced Weatherization Packages
This project examines implementation of advanced retrofit measures in the context of a large-scale weatherization program and the archetypal Chicago brick bungalow. One strategy applies best practice Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Heat Pump Water Heaters in New and Existing Homes
This Building America Measure Guideline is intended for builders, contractors, homeowners, and policy-makers. This document is intended to explore the issues surrounding heat pump water heaters (HPWHs Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Water Management at Tub and Shower Assemblies
Due to the high concentrations of water and the consequential risk of water damage to the home’s structure a comprehensive water management system is imperative to protect the building assemblies unde Details Bookmark & Share

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Strategy Guideline: Energy Retrofits for Low-Rise Multifamily Buildings in Cold Climates This Strategy Guideline explains the benefits of evaluating and identifying energy efficiency retrofit measures that could be made during renovation and maintenance of multifamily buildings. It focuse Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Insulating and Air Sealing Attic Sprinklers Beginning with the 2009 edition of the International Residential Code (Section R313, IRC 2009), the inclusion of automatic sprinkler systems is required in all single and two-family residences. As the Details Bookmark & Share
Project Overcoat — An Exploration of Exterior Insulation Strategies for 1-½ Story Roof Applications in Cold Climates The development of an alternative method to interior-applied insulation strategies or exterior applied “band-aids” such as heat tapes and ice belts may help reduce energy needs of millions of 1-1/2 st Details Bookmark & Share
Assessing Foundation Insulation Strategies for the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code in Cold Climate New Home Construction While the International Energy Conservation Code 2012 (IECC 2012) has been adopted at a national level, only two cold climate states have adopted it as their new home energy code. Understanding the re Details Bookmark & Share
Cold Climate Foundation Retrofit Energy Savings: The Simulated Energy and Experimental Hygrothermal Performance of Cold Climate Foundation Wall Insulation Retrofit Measures -- Phase I, Energy Simulation A split simulation whole building energy / 3-dimensional earth contact model (termed the BUFETS/EnergyPlus Model or BEM) capable of modeling the full range of foundation systems found in the target re Details Bookmark & Share

Strategy Guideline: Energy Retrofits for Low-Rise Multifamily Buildings in Cold Climates
This Strategy Guideline explains the benefits of evaluating and identifying energy efficiency retrofit measures that could be made during renovation and maintenance of multifamily buildings. It focuse Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Insulating and Air Sealing Attic Sprinklers
Beginning with the 2009 edition of the International Residential Code (Section R313, IRC 2009), the inclusion of automatic sprinkler systems is required in all single and two-family residences. As the Details Bookmark & Share

Project Overcoat — An Exploration of Exterior Insulation Strategies for 1-½ Story Roof Applications in Cold Climates
The development of an alternative method to interior-applied insulation strategies or exterior applied “band-aids” such as heat tapes and ice belts may help reduce energy needs of millions of 1-1/2 st Details Bookmark & Share

Assessing Foundation Insulation Strategies for the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code in Cold Climate New Home Construction
While the International Energy Conservation Code 2012 (IECC 2012) has been adopted at a national level, only two cold climate states have adopted it as their new home energy code. Understanding the re Details Bookmark & Share

Cold Climate Foundation Retrofit Energy Savings: The Simulated Energy and Experimental Hygrothermal Performance of Cold Climate Foundation Wall Insulation Retrofit Measures -- Phase I, Energy Simulation
A split simulation whole building energy / 3-dimensional earth contact model (termed the BUFETS/EnergyPlus Model or BEM) capable of modeling the full range of foundation systems found in the target re Details Bookmark & Share