High Performance Home
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Urban Rustic: A Passive House Energy Scorecard
Eric Whetzel reviews energy performance and offers some other thoughts about his high-performance home
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High-Performance Modern Design
A few solutions for achieving a contemporary aesthetic and ambitious energy goals
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A First-Time Builder Demonstrates a Keen Understanding of Building Science
After years of research, Everett Kramer is building his family home using leading-edge green-building strategies
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The BS* + Beer Show: The Intersection of Preservation and Performance
In the quest to save old houses, do we need to sacrifice high performance? To achieve high performance, do we need to demote fine craftsmanship? Is it possible to build for efficiencies and beauty?
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The BS* + Beer Show: Choosing and Using Water-Resistive Barriers
Many of today's WRBs can do more than keep water out of your walls, so there's much more to consider than cost and installation details
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The BS* + Beer Show: Is It Time to Consider Panelized Walls?
Building walls indoors has advantages from quality control to consistent scheduling to waste management, and it's gaining favor with high-performance designers and builders
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The BS* + Beer Show: Making High-Performance Affordable
Hosts Michael Maines, Emily Mottram, and Travis Brungardt are joined by a panel of great minds from around the building industry to discuss the question: how do we break through the (real and perceived) costs of building (and remodeling) better homes?
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Zero-Energy-Ready Homes Gain Ground
An interview with Sam Rashkin, chief architect with the Department of Energy's Building Technology Office
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Urban Rustic: Attic Insulation
The attic is an easy place to sneak in more R-value, so how does 2 feet of cellulose sound?
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Saving Sustainably: Framing the First Floor
Advanced framing techniques use less lumber and leave more room for insulation
