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EnergyValue Housing Awards Honor Builders Who Focus on Customer Satisfaction and Energy Efficient Construction
As energy costs continue to rise, consumers are looking for companies to help them find ways to reduce their energy consumption. In direct response to their customers' concerns, many home builders have taken great strides to incorporate features that make homes more energy efficient, and have less of an impact...
Controlling Moisture by Mechanical Design in Highly Efficient Homes
Dramatic improvements in the energy efficient design of homes have been made over the past 50 years. Homes have evolved from being built to "breathe" with virtually no insulation and leaky, single pane windows to being the well-insulated, tightly-constructed homes of today. Along with the increase in insulation and air...
Installing Vinyl Siding Over Existing Wood Cladding
The article describes about vinyl siding over existing wood cladding. Is it acceptable to install vinyl siding over existing wood cladding? If so, what is the proper installation method and what considerations need to be taken into account for best results? The short answer to the first question is, yes,...
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...
Resource Efficient Home Design: Wood Header Research
Wood framing is the predominant material in residential construction in the United States today, so its efficient use in homes is of paramount importance. Some parts of homes, such as headers, may be particularly over-designed, which affects cost and consumes more lumber than necessary. A recent study by the NAHB...
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...
Majority of Baby Boomers "Fixing to Stay": Challenges Ahead for Builders and Remodelers
Both newly built houses and existing dwellings can create mobility problems for Baby Boomers (currently 45 to 54 years of age) and members of their families, according to an AARP survey released earlier this year. New home builders and remodelers face a number of challenges if the residential construction industry...
Considerations for Building a More Energy Efficient Home
This document is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. This Technote is intended to provide guidance for builders considering building more energy efficient homes. Homeowners working with a custom home builder or serving as a general contractor on a home construction project...
Air Distribution System Installation and Sealing: Proper Duct Installation Increases Efficiency
This paper describes heating and cooling systems. Central heating and cooling systems use an air distribution or duct system to circulate heated and/or cooled air to all the conditioned rooms in a house. Even when properly designed, duct systems must be installed correctly to be efficient, maintain uniform temperatures throughout...
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:...
Right-Size Heating and Cooling Equipment: The Correct Size Improves Comfort and Reduces Costs, Maintenance, and Energy Use
Bigger is not always better with HVAC systems. Determining the correct size of residential heating and cooling equipment is key to achieving comfortable interior conditions ? temperature and humidity ? and saving on initial and operating costs. Size of cooling systems is particularly critical for optimal energy efficiency and comfort....
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...
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...
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...
Energy-Efficient Resource-Efficient Frost-Protected Shallow Foundations
Builders and remodelers across the northern United States are learning the advantages of frost-protected shallow foundations (FPSFs) and the use of the technology is spreading. Frost-protected shallow foundations are included as an energy efficient and resource-efficient technology in the Green Builder Program of Colorado. This document introduces the Frost-Protected Shallow...
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...
Water Heating: Energy-Efficient Strategies for Supplying Hot Water in the Home
The paper describes about the water heaters. Domestic water heating accounts for between 15 and 25 percent of the energy consumed in homes. Water-heating energy costs can be managed by selecting the appropriate fuel and water heater type, using efficient system design, and reducing hot water consumption. The lowest-priced water...
Performance Comparison of Residential Hot Water Systems
This report by the NAHB Research Center is a continuation of past Renewables and Energy Efficiency Program (REEP) technical efforts sponsored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) through 1999 and 2000. This work was undertaken to verify the estimated energy savings for hot water systems. The test results presented...
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