• Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 1, Hot & Humid Climates
  Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Hot & Humid Climate

• Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 2, Hot-Dry & Mixed-Dry Climates
Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Hot-Dry and Mixed-Dry Climate

• Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 3, Cold & Very Cold Climates
Builders and Buyers Handbook for Improving New Home Efficiency, Comfort, and Durability in the Cold & Very Cold Climates

• Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 6, High Performance Home Technologies
  
Builders and Buyers Handbook for High Performance Home Technologies: Solar Thermal & Photovoltaic Systems

• Home Energy Efficient Design (HEED) free software
  Designers & builders looking for an easy-to-use software program to refine residential designs for energy efficiency should check out this free program downloaded from the web.  The program is based on comparing a user-defined case study home to two "conventional" homes.