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All About Foundations
Let’s say you’re planning to build a custom house. Do you care what type of foundation your house will have? Some homeowners leave this decision to the designer or builder.…
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School Water Often Goes Untested for Lead
Schools in 35 states are not required to test their drinking water for lead, research by The Center for Green Schools has found. In the remaining 15 states and the…
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More Wingnut Testing of Basement Waterproofing
In the first round of Wingut testing of negative side waterproofing, I was pretty focused on how various interior basement waterproofing systems dealt with hydrostatic pressure. But in recent workshops…
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The Curious Case of the Imploding Windows
In 2008, a Dutchman named L. Korn found himself in Toronto buying windows for a house he was building back in the Netherlands. Unavailable at the time in Europe, the…
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Ranking Indoor Air Pollutants
That face above is of a physician, alchemist, and astrologer named Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. He is deemed the father of toxicology and is better known by the…
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Let’s Mine Our Landfills
This post originally appeared at Ensia. The car tires were abundant and easy to spot. As were newspapers, made from trees with tough cell walls. Then there were tons of…
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Do These Walls Need a Poly Vapor Barrier?
Zane Bridgers is building a single-story house in northern New Mexico and has nearly completed the framed exterior walls. As his mind turns to air sealing, he's considering whether to…
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How to Flash an Exterior Door
It’s easy to find advice on flashing windows. But what about exterior doors? For some reason, most construction experts haven’t provided builders with much advice about flashing doors. Don’t be…
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Building Materials Supplier Updates E-Book Series
A New York City supplier of building materials for high-performance and Passive House buildings is developing a new series of free electronic books for builders and designers. Eventually the e-books…
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A New Net-Zero Certification Program
Much as NASA developed dozens of life-changing and useful inventions that benefited all as it raced to the moon, the U.S. Green Building Council may be the catalyst for new,…
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