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Insulating Scissors Trusses
A scissors truss is a roof truss that creates a sloped ceiling instead of a horizontal ceiling. Unlike parallel-chord trusses — a type of truss that creates a sloped ceiling…
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Appliance Standards: A Powerful Job Engine
Federal energy efficiency standards for appliances, electronics, and other equipment are known to save energy, cut utility bills, and reduce harmful pollution. But something that isn’t widely known is that…
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Corporate America’s Green Awakening
By TOM LYON and MAGALI DELMAS
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The Built-In Weakness of ‘Footprint’ Estimates
Experts widely agree that human activities are harming the global environment. Since the Industrial Revolution, the world economy has grown dramatically. Overall this is a success story, since rising incomes…
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Rural Families Overburdened with Energy Costs
Rural families face the highest energy burdens of any household group in America and spend a much larger percentage of their income on energy bills than the average family, according…
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Preparing Building Pros for the Zero-Energy Boom
The market for zero net energy (ZNE) residential and commercial buildings is growing rapidly and is poised for a significant evolutionary leap — if not a boom. Building codes are…
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The Basics of HVAC Zoning
Last year I wrote five articles in a series on duct design and ever since, I keep getting requests to continue it. Here’s a link to the first article in…
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Urban Rustic: Attic Insulation
Editor's note: This post is one of a series by Eric Whetzel about the design and construction of his house in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A list of…
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Scaling Up a Model for Affordable Housing
An architectural program at Auburn University that developed a model for building affordable housing is hoping to share what its students and faculty have learned on a national level in…
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Insulating and Air Sealing a Vaulted Ceiling
Kevin is working up the design for a new lakeside cabin in Tennessee, with plans currently calling for a scissor-truss roof and a vaulted ceiling over the kitchen and living…
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