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Moldy Roof Sheathing in the Pacific Northwest
Increasingly, homeowners in the Pacific Northwest are noticing mold on the underside of their roof sheathing. This phenomenon occurs in vented attics, and is more common in new homes than…
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Understanding Filter Ratings: MERV, FPR, and MPR
As much as I've written about filters and filtration in this blog, I have to confess there's one aspect of filter efficiency I've resisted learning about. Every article I've written…
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Renewable Energy Expected to Eclipse Coal This Year
Hundreds of coal-fired power plants went off line in the last decade while renewable energy continued to gain ground and for the first time this year, renewables will provide more…
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How Do You Estimate What You’ve Never Done Before?
In January, 2019, I started work as a lead carpenter at HVP Corp. The crew all seemed top-notch, but I was a little concerned about the other lead carpenter, Ian…
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Paint Options for Green Builders
My first encounter with paint came from reading the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, who famously had to atone for misbehavior by whitewashing his Aunt Polly’s fence. The whitewash used in…
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Building Against the Grain
Steve Weise is trying to move the needle. A seasoned builder, first-time developer, and owner of Leading Force Energy & Design Center based in Yakima, Washington, he finds himself in…
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The BS* + Beer Show: The Benefits of Bio-Based Building Materials
If you come to GBA because climate issues matter to you and as a building professional, DIYer, and/or homeowner, you know that where you can make an impact is in…
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High-Performance Window Install
When I first started installing windows in the 1990s we were using Tyvek HomeWrap as our water resistive barrier (WRB) and made the now-infamous X-cut at our windows, folding the…
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Establishing Best Practices
What happens when two old friends and colleagues, living on opposite sides of the continent, in entirely different climates—not to mention having different occupations, backgrounds, and genders—try to agree on…
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European Court Rebuffs Critics of Wood Pellets
The European Court of Justice has thrown out a challenge to a renewable energy policy that encourages the use of compressed wood pellets for utility-scale power generation, ruling that the…
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