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Energy-conscious construction doesn’t need to break the bank and many builders can make a significant dent in their homes’ performance by going back to basics rather than focusing on maxing out whiz-bang gadgetry, Ed Hauck of Builder Partnerships in Littleton, Colo., told the audience...
The NAHB has announced that the newest version of the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS) will be available starting Jan. 23. It will build on the original version published in 2009, with changes including increased energy efficiency requirements and restructured scoring f...
, written by IMT’s Andrea Krukowski and Andrew C. Burr, describes the particular barriers to energy efficiency in multifamily housing, such as dispersed property ownership; a general lack of information on buildings’ energy performance; owners’ difficulty in obtaining the energy data ...
- Train your sales staff to talk about the whole house as a system. “Salespeople aren’t going to sell energy efficiency until they’re comfortable talking about it,” McKown said. “They won’t talk about high-performance windows if they don’t understand high-performance windows.” Ideal H...
Katie Weeks, editor-in-chief of ECOHOME and ECO-STRUCTURE magazines talks with Doug Bennett at the 2013 International Builders' Show about the Southern Nevada Water Authority's conservation efforts.
When we first highlighted our top-selling designs under 2,000 sq. feet in 2009, the best sellers were small house plans whose benefits translated to lower construction costs and compact footprints. These are still great selling-points for smaller plans, but in today's landscape the de...
By 2020 you’ll be living in a more sustainable community, even if you don’t know it. Market forces more powerful than eco-ethics or energy policies will drive the makeover of our towns and cities into pockets of walkable neighborhoods with varied retail and residential uses in close p...
For most builders, there was a significant need to increase the performance of their building shell to meet the new air tightness and thermal breaks required in the Version 3.0 requirements. Meritage had already adopted national advanced framing and SPF insulation programs that easily...
