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Advanced Wall Framing: Build Efficiently, Use Less Material, and Save Energy!
Advanced framing refers to a variety of framing techniques designed to reduce the amount of lumber used and waste generated in the construction of a wood-framed house. Designing homes on 2-foot modules to make the best use of common sheet good sizes and reduce waste and labor. Spacing wall studs...
Hybrid Wood and Steel Details - Builders Guide
Cold-formed steel has been widely used in commercial buildings, especially in non-load bearing partitions and curtain wall applications. In both commercial and residential construction, cold-formed steel sections are increasingly finding use as primary structural members, such as beams, floor joists, roof trusses, and load-bearing walls. Despite the availability of cold-formed...
Controlling Moisture in Homes
Energy-efficient construction techniques that emphasize low levels of air leakage have increased the potential for moisture problems in homes and other light-frame buildings. Excessive moisture in wall cavities can decay wood if the moisture remains for extended periods at temperatures greater than approximately 50ºF. This document provides brief information on...
Designing Walls With Insulated Concrete Forms
Insulated Concrete Forms ICFs are typically constructed of rigid foam plastic insulation, a composite of cement and foam insulation, or a composite of cement and wood chips. The forms typically remain in place after the concrete has cured to provide an insulated concrete wall. ICFs are typically categorized by the...
Shear Wall Panels
In areas prone to earthquakes and high winds, codes for shear wall design now require builders to use let-in bracing or costly plywood site-built assemblies. Two manufacturers are now helping to streamline construction of shear walls by providing pre-manufactured modular products that are cost effective and easy to design, specify,...
Engineered Wood Wall Framing
The decreasing supply of large diameter, old-growth trees has resulted in an increased popularity of engineered wood materials -- those that process young, small diameter trees into strands and reassemble them into panels, boards, and framing material. Engineered wood has many uses, including wall framing. Engineered wood wall framing is...
Panelized Wall and Roof Systems
Manufacturers are reinventing the process of home construction using assembly line automation and prefabricated panels made from a wide variety of materials. The installed panels form a structural envelope that eliminates the need for conventional framing, provides integral insulation, and can be assembled swiftly by less skilled laborers. These advantages...
Insulating Concrete Form Systems (ICFs)-In-Depth Analysis: Summary
Insulating concrete forms ICFs are rigid plastic foam forms that are filled with reinforced concrete to create structural walls. They hold concrete in place during curing and remain in place afterwards to provide thermal insulation. ICFs are used to make structural concrete walls, and can be used to make either...
Spray-Applied Concrete Walls
Spray-applied concrete has been in use for almost a century, especially in swimming pool and retaining wall construction. Because of its flexibility in application over complex surfaces, it also has been used extensively in creating simulated natural objects and environments, such as rock-scapes in zoo exhibits, and ornamental water features...
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Video: National Homebuilder Takes Aim at Energy Efficiency
Centex to offer suite of energy efficiency features as standard DALLAS, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centex Corporation today announced the Centex Energy Advantage, a suite of energy-efficient features standard in all Centex homes built nationwide by January 2009. The initiative is expected to...
Recent NAHB Publication Cites Customer Velocity's Features as Exemplary for Surviving Down Markets
Three of Top Ten NAHB Survival Tips Can be Accomplished With Customer Velocity THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Customer Velocity -- the widely acknowledged national leader in sales process automation and best-practice web-lead management -- today announced that the features of its software suite are proving to be highly...
Progressive Following on KB Home.
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 February 2008-NYSENEWS: Progressive Following on KB HomeC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21022008 InvestorIM has been created as a tool for the average investor. The idea is simple, a website where the world can communicate. Do you have a ...
KB Home First Builder to Earn National Housing Quality Certification Nationwide
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Today, the NAHB Research Center proudly announced that KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of the nation's leading home builders, has been named the first builder to earn the prestigious National Housing Quality NHQ Certified Builder Program for all of its operations nationwide. Following a rigorous NAHB...
First New Residential Siding Category to Appear in 20 Years, Introduced by Microposite, Inc
Michigan-Based Microposite Responds to Industry Demand for Innovative, Premium Siding Products, Delivering Three Times the Energy Efficiency at Half the Weight AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- For the first time in over 20 years, there's a new category in residential siding. Michigan-based Microposite, Inc. today marked their official entrance...
Energy Efficiency Ranks #1 in Consumer Green Building Priorities
NAHB National Green Building Program Anticipates Home Buyer Demands WASHINGTON -- A new survey conducted for the National Association of Home Builders NAHB confirms that a desire for greater energy efficiency drives consumers to choose a green-built home. "Green building is the home...
Pringle Development, Inc. Wins National Housing Award from NAHQ
EUSTIS, Fla. -- Pringle Development, Inc. is proud to announce they are one of five winners of the 2008 National Housing Quality NHQ Awards. This is the third time Pringle Development has received an NHQ award, and the second time earning silver. These awards are determined and...
NAHB says nearly 100,000 green homes certified
WASHINGTON -- According to the National Association of Home Builders NAHB, a new survey of local home building associations showed that more than 97,000 homes have been built and certified by voluntary, builder-supported green building programs around the country since the mid-1990s. This revealed a more than 50% increase since...
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CINCINNATI -- Green Builder[R] Media, the leading national purveyor of information and education about residential green building and sustainable development, today announced that Founding Partner and Editorial Director, Ron Jones, has been appointed Chairman of the Consensus Committee that is taking the National Association of Home Builders'...
2007 EnergyValue Housing Award Winners.(Brief article)
Staff Veridian Homes of Madison, Wis., was named the 2007 EnergyValue Housing Award Builder of the Year. Presented by the NAHB Research Center, the EVHA recognizes builders who have voluntarily integrated energy efficiency into the design, construction and marketing of their...
A Great Wind is Blowing.(wind power)
By Glen Salas, PATH Partners Wind power can work for single-family homes. Wind power is the world's fastest-growing energy technology. Could it be too futuristic or too expensive for your clients? Because energy prices are volatile...
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