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Builder's Guide to Cold Climates
Joe Lstiburek
Energy and Environmental Building Association
ISBN: 0-9755127-1-4

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings: 9th Edition
Jennifer Thorne Amann, Alex Wilson & Katie Ackerly
New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865716025

Residential Energy: Cost Savings and Comfort for Existing Buildings
John Krigger & Chris Dorsi
Saturn Resource Management, Inc.
ISBN: 1-880120-12-7

Build Like a Pro: Insulate and Weatherize
Bruce Harley
Taunton Press
ISBN 978-1-56158-554-0

FactSheets [Show All FactSheets]

IAQ-2 ABSN FACTSHEET.pdf
Indoor Air Quality Improvement for Home Owners: II. Moisture, Ventilation & Pressure by ABSN. Here in Part II, we provide some general tips concerning combustion appliances, and moisture, ventilation and pressure management. These issues often overlap, and are difficult to categorize, but play important roles in residentail IAQ.

EEM-00252 Searching 4 Energy Saving Homes.pdf
Searching the Market for Energy-Saving Homes -- A Checklist for Alaska Many features about a home can make a difference in your comfort and in the amount of energy needed for heating, cooling, and lighting. The following checklist will help you evaluate the energy-saving potential of a home, or help you determine whether a home you may be buying, building, or remodeling will be economical to operate.

EEM-00450 IAQ Strategies for Cold Climates.pdf
Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Strategies for Cold Climates This is a new publication as of Autumn 2004. It replaces our former publication on ventilation strategies and is based on Alaska research results. Various levels and options for ventilation systems and control strategies are described, as well as concerns over induction of pollutants like carbon monoxide and radon if "exhaust-only" systems are used. The publication is intended as a decision guide for ventilating residences. Cost estimates are included.

EEM-01152 Comparative Unit Fuel Costs for Dollar Net Heat Output.pdf
Comparative Unit Fuel Costs for Equivalent Dollar Net Heat Output The continual rise in energy costs has resulted in an interest in the development of simple methods for determining optimum fuel costs. The following tables provide one method of comparing unit fuel costs based on equivalent net heat production in British Thermal Units per dollar ($1.00) of fuel expenditure.

News [Show All News]

ABSN Summer Conference Dates Announced
SAVE THE DATE !! ABSN SUMMER SYMPOSIUM July 24-26, 2008 Seward, Alaska. Friday eve will be the inaugural Robert Maxwell Memorial Cruise. Join Alaska's and North America's Building Science experts..... Click here for more [more...]

ABSN Announces Newly Designed Website

We are pleased to release our newest design of our website. You'll find all of the information you are accustomed to seeing, including our calendar and class registration functions. Furthermore, as part of this project we've added a greatly expanded resource center--your online resource for building research, fact sheets for download, links, and soon, a green building products directory.

These are just a few of the ways we're trying to serve our membership, the building community at large, and all Alaskans who are dealing with the rising cost of energy. [more...]

New Energy Rater Training
ABSN is planning trainings in Fairbanks & Anchorage for NEW Energy Raters to be held in May & June. To start the process of becomming an Energy Rater please visit the "profession" page under the Energy Rater tab above and send in your completed Energy Rater Application. [more...]

Rural Education Contract Renewed
ABSN has received the Building Energy Efficiency Contract from Alaska Housing Finance Corporation for a fifth year. Many communities throughout Alaska have benefitted from the training received through this contract. We are excited to have this opportunity again this year. [more...]

Links [Show All Links]

Cold Climate Housing Research Center
The Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) is an industry based, non-profit corporation created to facilitate the development, use, and testing of energy efficient, durable, healthy, and cost effective building technologies for Alaska and the world's cold climate regions. [go there]

University of Alaska Fairbanks CES Alaska Energy and Housing
The Housing Program for UAF's Cooperative Extension Service's mission is to objectively bring the best possible housing technology information to Alaskan home owners and builders. Using the research facilities of the University and the national research networks of Federal institutions and private corporations, Extension tries to bring you through newsletters, publications, and personal consultations in education, the best information we can provide on housing technology. Publishers of the Solar Design Manual for Alaska, available for order on this site. [go there]

Alaska Sun
Alaska Sun is a coalition of solar businesses, academics, and interested individuals working toward a renewable energy future for Alaska. The Solar Design Manual for Alaska is available at this site. [go there]

AHFC Research Information Center
Energy & Construction information, workshops & library [go there]