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A Myth About Low-Static Ducted Minisplits

I like minisplit heat pumps, especially of the ducted variety. And because I don't like to pay for a lot of excess power, I prefer to use ducted mini-splits with…

Green Building Curmudgeon

Archi-torture: The Pain of Bad Details

While this post has little (or maybe nothing) to do with green building as most of us understand what it means, I find myself seeing some terrible residential design work…

Green Building News

Efforts to Ban Gas Hookups in New Construction Widen

A campaign to lower carbon emissions by prohibiting fossil fuels connections in new buildings has moved to the East Coast. In mid-November, a town just outside Boston became the first…

Building Matters

Climate Change for Builders: The Biggest Opportunity

When people say, “Earth’s climate has always changed,” I think back to a college geology class I took in 1992. The professor’s PhD research specialty was drilling deep in glaciers,…

Green Building Blog

Insights from a Practical Passive House

The office of Birdsmouth Design Build is located in a renovated, 850-square-foot Pullman rail car in downtown Portland, Or. This wasn’t always the case, but at a point when the…

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