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Revisiting the Sunrise House in Fairbanks
Longtime readers of Green Building Advisor will remember reading about a Passivhaus residence in Fairbanks, Alaska, called the Sunrise House. Designed and built by a contractor named Thorsten Chlupp, the…
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A Closer Look at Concrete
Concrete is the most common building material in the world. We produce billions of tons a year, but at a huge environmental cost. The quarrying and processing necessary to produce…
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Why Bioplastics Will Not Solve the World’s Plastics Problem
This post originally appeared at Yale Environment 360. Coca-Cola calls it the PlantBottle—a new kind of recyclable plastic container, 30% of which is made from sugar cane and other plants,…
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A Holistic Approach to Housing
David Hall and Keith Moskow have been renovating, retrofitting, and upgrading multi-family homes in Newburyport, Massachusetts, for over 30 years. Their fathers began buying real estate together in the 1960s,…
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The BS* + Beer Show: What About Sealants?
This episode of the BS* + Beer show explores the ever-evolving world of sealants—a critical yet nascent component of what we are doing today in the name of building science.…
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A Roundup of Air-Sealing Products
Do building scientists sometimes wake up and feel like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day,” trapped in a time loop where no matter how many times they try to explain the…
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Understanding Manual J Occupant Loads
People complicate things. If, say, you want to sell a motorcycle, you place an ad and interested potential buyers come check it out, maybe take it for a little ride,…
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Urban Rustic: Evaluating the Success of Passive-Solar-Design Strategies
Our green building adventure began in 2013, when I came across various Passive House and high-performance projects in the book, Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid, by Sheri Koones. The…
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How Covid-19 Is Changing Solar Permitting for the Better
This guest blog was written by Ryan Shea, Arthur Coulston, and Rushad Nanavatty of the Rocky Mountain Institute. In order to meet social distancing requirements brought on by the Covid-19…
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Is This Bathroom Vent Screwed Up?
Leslie Warren thought she had all the details worked out in advance with her HVAC installer, so on the day he was scheduled to install the bathroom fan she was…
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