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CertainTeed Settles Drinking Water Complaint
CertainTeed's vinyl siding plant in Westlake, Louisiana, will pay civil penalties of $365,500 for violating the Safe Drinking Water Act and failing to provide employees with a safe source of…
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Saving Sustainably: Framing the Roof
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of blogs detailing the construction of a net-zero energy house in Point Roberts, Washington, by an owner/builder with relatively little building experience.…
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Designing Greener City Streets
City streets and sidewalks in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they might be planted…
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Researchers Test a New Type of Insulation
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have helped develop a type of building insulation that combines vacuum panel cores and rigid foam. The new composite boards have double the…
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Heating a New House in Nova Scotia
In the Canadian maritime province of Nova Scotia, a GBA reader named Janet is building a new weekend home whose heating system will include both a wood stove and radiant-floor…
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Is it Time to Move Away From ACH @50 Pascals?
A residential blower door test result is usually performed at a pressure difference of 50 Pascals, and the results are reported as an airflow rate in cfm. A report might…
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Retrain Coal Workers for Solar
The Trump administration has announced new pollution rules for coal-fired power plants designed to keep existing coal power plants operating more and save American coal mining jobs. Profitability for U.S.…
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Podcast: Fine Homebuilding Editors Talk With Martin Holladay
Fine Homebuilding editors Justin Fink and Patrick McCombe recently invited GBA editor Martin Holladay to join them for their weekly podcast. The discussion ranged from heat-pump efficiency at high altitudes,…
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How Much of Your Life Do You Spend in Buildings?
Back in 2004, as I was immersing myself in the world of building science and green building, I took the U.S. Green Building Council's exam to become a LEED Accredited…
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Developer Plans Largest Net-Zero-Ready Community in U.S.
A Texas-based real estate developer hopes to break ground late next year on a 4,500-unit net-zero-ready community in Fort Collins, Colorado. It would be the largest development of its kind…
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