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Avoid Corrosion When Using Steel and Concrete
The article discusses about usage of steel and wood in construction. If you are building a house using concrete masonry for the foundation and cold-formed steel framing for the floor, you need to be concerned with possible corrosion problems due to the direct contact between steel and concrete. Connecting conventional...
Windows Selection: Modern Windows Provide Energy Savings, Durability, and Comfort
Windows bring light, warmth, cooling breezes, and beauty into homes and give a feeling of openness and space to living areas. Although beneficial, windows can negatively impact a home's energy efficiency, comfort, indoor air quality, and durability if not properly selected and installed. Windows can be major sources of heat...
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...
Window Selection: Modern Windows Provide Energy Savings, Durability, and Comfort
Windows bring light, warmth, cooling breezes, and beauty into homes and give a feeling of openness and space to living areas. Although beneficial, windows can negatively impact a home's energy efficiency, comfort, indoor air quality, and durability if not properly selected and installed. Windows can be major sources of heat...
Innovative Residential Floor Construction: Horizontal Diaphragm Values for Cold-Formed Steel Framing
For centuries home builders in the United States have made wood their material of choice because of its satisfactory performance, abundant supply, and relatively low cost. However, over the past several years, lumber prices have experienced unpredictable price fluctuations that affect affordability. Builders have also voiced concerns with lumber quality....
Passive Solar Ventilation Air Pre-heater
This durable exterior wall cladding system is designed to passively draw in fresh air, solar heat it, and circulate to the house interior. This creates an energy-efficient, well-ventilated indoor environment. In cold climates, well-insulated, tight exterior envelopes are used to achieve energy efficiency. In such cases, bringing in make-up air...
Residential Light Gauge Steel
This article describes about using steel framing for walls, floors, and roofs. Residential steel framing utilizes cold-formed steel members for walls, floors, and roofs. The framing members are C-sections with standard dimensions similar to wood framing members in stick-framed construction. Steel framing can be a cost effective alternative to wood...
Demand (Tankless or Instantaneous) Water Heaters: A Reference Brief from the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (EREC)
Water heating accounts for 20% or more of an average household's annual energy expenditures. The yearly operating costs for conventional gas or electric storage tank water heaters average $200 or $450, respectively. Storage tank-type water heaters raise and maintain the water temperature to the temperature setting on the tank (usually...
Drainwater Heat Recovery
Drainwater heat recovery DHR devices fit into existing waste drain lines from showers and bathtubs to capture heat from the drainwater to preheat cold water going to other showers or a water heater. DHR systems reduce the energy needed to heat water and increase the capacity of water heaters. There...
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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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