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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
Energy Savings Measure Packages: Existing Homes This document presents the most cost effective Energy Savings Measure Packages (ESMP) for existing mixed-fuel and all electric homes to achieve 15% and 30% savings for each BetterBuildings grantee loc 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: Ventilation Cooling The purpose of this measure guideline is to provide information on a cost-effective solution for reducing cooling system energy and demand in homes located in hot-dry and cold-dry climates. This guide Details Bookmark & Share
Strategy Guideline: Transitioning HVAC Companies to Whole House Performance Contractors This report describes the findings from research IBACOS conducted related to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) companies who have made the decision to transition to whole house perform 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

Energy Savings Measure Packages: Existing Homes
This document presents the most cost effective Energy Savings Measure Packages (ESMP) for existing mixed-fuel and all electric homes to achieve 15% and 30% savings for each BetterBuildings grantee loc 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: Ventilation Cooling
The purpose of this measure guideline is to provide information on a cost-effective solution for reducing cooling system energy and demand in homes located in hot-dry and cold-dry climates. This guide Details Bookmark & Share

Strategy Guideline: Transitioning HVAC Companies to Whole House Performance Contractors
This report describes the findings from research IBACOS conducted related to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) companies who have made the decision to transition to whole house perform Details Bookmark & Share

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Building America Spring 2012 Stakeholder Meeting Report The Building America Spring 2012 Stakeholder Meeting was held on February 29-March 2, 2012, in Austin, Texas, and outlined stakeholder needs, collaboration opportunities, and research results as they Details Bookmark & Share
Water Management of Noninsulating and Insulating Sheathings There is an increasing market in liquid (or fluid) applied water management barriers for residential applications that could be used in place of tapes and other self-adhering membranes if applied corr Details Bookmark & Share
Strategy Guideline: Transitioning HVAC Companies to Whole House Performance Contractors This report describes the findings from research IBACOS conducted related to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) companies who have made the decision to transition to whole house perform Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Transitioning From Three-Coat Stucco to One-Coat Stucco With EPS This measure guideline has been developed to help builders transition from using a traditional three-coat stucco wall-cladding system to a one-coat stucco wall-cladding system with expanded polystyren Details Bookmark & Share
Measure Guideline: Ventilation Cooling The purpose of this measure guideline is to provide information on a cost-effective solution for reducing cooling system energy and demand in homes located in hot-dry and cold-dry climates. This guide Details Bookmark & Share

Building America Spring 2012 Stakeholder Meeting Report
The Building America Spring 2012 Stakeholder Meeting was held on February 29-March 2, 2012, in Austin, Texas, and outlined stakeholder needs, collaboration opportunities, and research results as they Details Bookmark & Share

Water Management of Noninsulating and Insulating Sheathings
There is an increasing market in liquid (or fluid) applied water management barriers for residential applications that could be used in place of tapes and other self-adhering membranes if applied corr Details Bookmark & Share

Measure Guideline: Transitioning From Three-Coat Stucco to One-Coat Stucco With EPS
This measure guideline has been developed to help builders transition from using a traditional three-coat stucco wall-cladding system to a one-coat stucco wall-cladding system with expanded polystyren Details Bookmark & Share