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Premise; as essential elements of sound building practice, foundations are expensive in time, money, and are carbon intensive. Further, foundations require a considerable sum of human capital or brain-space, to […]
The Role of Precast Foundations in Green Residential Building Read More
Duke-Progress has a new incentives program for builders, the Residential New Construction Program. It is significant money for builders who want to build to a higher energy efficient standard.
“What about the tank?” It was 4 PM the day before we needed the bank to approve the final appraisal for our permanent mortgage. Our contractor was rushing to finish
Life with a rainwater cistern Read More
Sometimes I blog about things I see that bother me and sometimes I pick topics that people ask me about all the time. Today, it’s both. The use of hybrid
Hybrid walls anyone? Read More
The North Carolina Legislature is considering sabotaging success in one of the best job producing, home grown sectors of our economy- clean energy. Usually I would reserve political talk
If it ain’t broke, break it. Read More
Infill building often involves a lot of tree removal. The lots we have found to build on in town have usually been vacant for many years and have had some
Trees and infill building Read More
One of the most surprising and frustrating aspects of working in the “energy efficiency industry” is the sheer number and prevalence of myths about light bulbs. Buying a light bulb
Seeing the light: myths about light bulbs Read More
Building a small house is almost always worth some points in a green building Program. Energy Star homes has a complex formula to calculate the size adjustment factor,SFA. (
If people can get 80 mpg in a car that’s EPA-rated to get 45, then it seems like it should be possible to get better than average performance out of
Hyper-mile your house Read More
This year we implemented several changes to reduce our consumption. I posted how we analyzed out energy use and targeted those heavy users for change. That was in Revenge of
End of Year Energy Accounting Read More
