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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"homeowner"”.
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Homeowner perception and response to radon
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that numerous lung cancer deaths result every year due to radon exposure. Given this, radon education has become an important issue. The purpose of this research was to examine what action consumers had taken to respond to radon as a hazard following an …
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Passive solar homes and their interiors: homeowner attitudes
This research investigated homeowner rationale for, and feelings about, living in passive solar homes. Satisfaction, use, and extent of involvement with the home and solar features were determined. Twenty-eight owners of passive solar homes from the state of Virginia participated in this study. …
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Testing the Waters: The Social Contexts of Homeowner Flood Mitigation
… effects from flooding. This study looks at what homeowners are doing to reduce their losses from floods through the practices of flood mitigation. I developed four hypotheses to predict homeowners' mitigation behavior. (1) Homeowners with a history of flooding are likely to mitigate more than …
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Homeowner willingness to pay for a pre-flood buyout agreement
… risk homes from flood prone areas is through homeowner buyout programs. Using an online contingent valuation survey we evaluate homeowner willingness to pay for a pre-flood buyout agreement where the owner is paid pre-flood market value for their home and must relocate following a flood …
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Homeowner Views on Housing Market Valuation of Energy Efficiency: An Empirical Investigation
… Empirical estimation provides evidence that homeowners feel the housing market assigns very limited value to the energy efficiency of their homes.
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Homeowner Views on Housing Market Valuation of Energy Efficiency: An Empirical Investigation
… Empirical estimation provides evidence that homeowners feel the housing market assigns very limited value to the energy efficiency of their homes.
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Applying epoch-era analysis for homeowner selection of distributed generation power systems
… model has opened a number of choices for homeowners to provide their own power. While there are a number of systems to purchase, there are no tools to help the homeowner determine which system they should select. The research investigates how an Epoch-Era Analysis formulation can be used …
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Homeowner satisfaction and service quality in the repair of UK flood-damaged domestic property
… costs of flooding, the services received by homeowners during flood damage repair works, have not been spared criticism, Both the Welsh Consumer Council report and the Warwickshire Trading Standards report raised serious questions about the level of service in insurance claims for the repair …
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Educational support for first-time homeowner/landlords in the Boston LISC 1-4 Family Housing Initiative
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Engaging the Owner-Occupier Homeowner (Rotarian) towards a Net Zero future - attitudes, motivations, barriers and misconceptions of energy efficiency retrofit.
To meet the UK’s legally binding obligations for Net Zero, deep and universal cuts to domestic housing stock emissions are required. Whilst certain sectors are regulated for, the owner-occupier market remains free to act as they will. Owner-occupiers make up 64.3% of all tenures and 54.1% of those …
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Making energy efficiency desirable : lessons from a cutting-edge program in Minneapolis
… to investing in energy efficiency facing homeowners, even with a cutting-edge program that combines technical and financial assistance and seeks to create neighborhood norms around addressing energy efficiency. I argue that it is important to distinguish between financial and logistical …
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Associations between Fecal Indicator Bacteria Prevalence and Demographic Data in Private Water Supplies in Virginia
… systems, it is the sole responsibility of the homeowner to maintain and monitor these systems. Previous limited studies indicate that microbial contamination of drinking water from private wells and springs is far from uncommon, ranging from 10% to 68%, depending on type of organism and …
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A Discrete Choice Mean Variance (EV) Cost Model to Measure Impact of Household Risk from Drinking Water Pipe Corrosion
… maintenance. Specifically, this paper examines homeowner choices for their home plumbing systems in the event of a pinhole leak, a tiny pin-sized hole that forms in copper, drinking-water pipes. These leaks can cause substantial damage and cost homeowners thousands of dollars in repairs. Since …
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Residential Exposure to Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria: Sources and Associations with Pulmonary Disease
… data. To better understand what house and homeowner characteristics may affect the colonization of NTM in homes in water POU sources, we also conducted an exploratory analysis utilizing the previous case-control study as a cross-sectional study using various logistic and linear regressions. …
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Development of a System Control Algorithm for Smart Residential Demand-Side Management
… money for both the electricity provider and homeowner. It also increases grid stability and the return-on-investment of solar panels. Since it is automatic, the system is completely transparent to the user, responding intelligently without any input from the homeowner besides preferences. …
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Characteristics and Perceptions of Cost-share Funding for Emerald Ash Borer Mitigation in Virginia Urban Areas
… I conducted web and mail surveys to examine homeowner engagement in preservation of threatened trees. Finally, to investigate the role of forest practitioners involved in program implementation, I conducted web surveys of VDOF foresters and Virginia arborists. Results demonstrated that on …
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Incremental densification auctions : A politically viable method of producing infill housing in existing single-family neighborhoods
This paper examines the problem of convincing homeowners to accept new housing density in their neighborhoods. This paper proposes that densification that places additional housing units in preexisting single-family neighborhoods is socially desirable as a way of slowing sprawl, utilizing existing …
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DESIGN [fabrication] BUILD
… proposes a new relationship among the architect, homeowner, and fabricator/assembler through the use of parametric software in order to create a truly customizable prefabricated home. This customization is possible through the combination of the software with CNC machinery and a material yet to be …
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The receptivity to housing policy initiatives: adequate and affordable housing in the rural south
… community development, rental assistance, and homeowner assistance, entered the equation. The second hypothesis stated that housing actors’ receptiveness to housing policy initiatives relative to support for land use controls was not a function of housing knowledge, perceptions, support and …
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MODELING OF NATURAL DISASTER CATASTROPHE LOSS INSURANCE MARKET
… explicit representation of the key stakeholders (homeowners, primary insurers and reinsurers). The theoretical framework is applied in a case study of eastern North Carolina with spatially explicit representation of hurricane damage due to wind and storm surge. We evaluate the effect of an …
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