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PATH's Top Ten Technologies for 2004
The PATH Technology Inventory, an index of emerging technologies in the housing industry, now contains 162 technologies - each presenting specific benefits for the home building industry as well as encountering its own barriers to market inception. This report highlights many of PATH's innovative initiatives, including the recently selected "Top...
Efficient Lighting Strategies: Wise Design Choices Can Meet Lighting Needs and Save Energy
Convenient and effective artificial lighting is one of the important advances of the 20th century. Artificial lighting allows us to work and play inside and outside our homes independent of the time of day, and also often serves aesthetic purposes. Artificial lighting is generally employed for three types of uses:...
PATH Technology Inventory Review
Since its inception, PATH has made significant progress in identifying emerging home building technologies, in developing roadmaps for specific types of technologies important to the industry, and in identifying technologies available or under development in other industries that could be applicable to the home building industry. This report describes the...
Alternatives to Structural Plywood & OSB
The paper discusses the alternatives for Structural Plywood and OSB. The recent dramatic upswing in structural panel prices and tightened material supply has created concern among the residential construction industry. Plywood and OSB are considered commodity products and are used interchangeably. Supply or price characteristics that apply to one typically...
Spot Ventilation: Source Control to Improve Indoor Air Quality
All homes need ventilation?the exchange of indoor air with outdoor air?to reduce indoor moisture, odors, and other pollutants. Contaminants such as formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds VOCs, and radon that may cause health problems can accumulate in poorly ventilated homes. Ventilation techniques and strategies have become more sophisticated as homes have...
Strategies for Energy Efficient Remodeling: Seer 2003 Case Study Report
The goal of the Strategies for Energy Efficiency in Remodeling SEER project is to provide information, based on research and case studies, to remodelers and consumers about opportunities to increase home energy performance. Opportunities to include energy efficiency often arise while undertaking general remodeling work. Of course, energy efficiency may...
Combination Steel/Wood Framing
Now there is a framing system that combines the best of steel and wood. The Combination Steel/Wood Framing system uses recycled steel studs and joists that attach directly to wood plates and bands using the same tools and methods as conventional framing techniques. The steel members are lightweight, quality consistent,...
Strategies for Energy Efficient Modeling Seer 2003
This case study report examines the technologies, methods and installation of specific energy efficiency strategies. The information presented here stems from a "gut rehab" of a house in rural New Jersey as part of the SEER project through the Building America Existing Buildings Program2. As other remodeling projects are undertaken...
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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 have positive, long-term...
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...
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 presented by the...
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...
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...
2007 National Housing Quality Award Winners Announced
CONSTRUCTION The National Assn. of Home Builders NAHB Research Center and Reed Business Information, publishers of Professional Builder magazine, have announced the winners at the 2007 National Housing Quality NHQ Awards. The NHQ Awards program, patterned after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, has two divisions-home builder and trade contractor....
Blue ribbon roofing and siding.(Number Sixty-Three)
It's easy to spot the employees of Blue Ribbon Roofing and Siding. They're the ones walking around with three-ringed binders in their hands. "Everybody has one," says Scott Lenahan, the vice president of Blue Ribbon. The binders arrived when...
From Trash to Treasure.(managing waste)
By Scott T. Shepherd, PATH Partners Managing waste can be a good investment. For some builders, job site waste is an afterthought. Many just rent the dumpster, throw the waste in and forget about it. ...
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