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Builders, remodelers, verifiers, and other program champions applauded for helping promote high-performance home building.
Ultra-efficient demonstration home proves that low-impact living can be a high-end experience.
A Maryland firm brings sustainability and light to a Baltimore row house.
Many of their new ideas and concepts revolve around making houses more efficient.
The Michigan subdivision will gather whole-house performance data.
Properly sized they can serve multiple appliances and fixtures without needing recovery time like a conventional tank.
Larger builders rely on volume and efficiencies to entice buyers with high-performance features at no added cost.
High-performance insulation and air sealing are crucial to building an affordable net-zero home.
Pittsburgh demonstration project will test multiple systems and building techniques to determine the most effective, affordable options production builders can replicate.
Like a car’s MPG rating, a national metric for home performance is essential for helping consumers make decisions on home purchases and energy upgrades, Builders’ Show speaker says.
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Pilot scoring tool ranks a house’s energy performance on a scale from 1 to 10, provides customized upgrade recommendations.
You can build a high-performance home by focusing on these five areas.
A trio of new homes in New Orleans were built to access the cost and methods of building green to different certification levels.
Debuting in January, this home applies a high level of performance and style to production housing.
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It would come as a surprise if Hovnanian Enterprises reports any performance better than a small loss after market close on Wednesday, as it slogs through the bottom of the home building market carrying an extra burden of debt weight and less means to dig out.
Connecticut spec builder accomplishes reducing environmental impact while building homes that are profitable.
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Just a couple years back, anyone who said they could build a $180,000, 1,600 square-foot house that featured foam insulation inside a high-performance wall system, high-efficiency solar-powered HVAC and water heating , a weather sensing irrigation and water management system, and home-control...
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General Electric remains the dominate appliance supplier to the high production home builder market, but in recent months Whirlpool Corp. has grabbed some high-profile market share. In the last six months Whirlpool Appliances has nabbed exclusive contracts to supply all the appliances to Toll...
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Customers need to hear about the benefits of high-performance houses many times and in many different ways, a marketing pro told attendees at the NAHB Green Building Conference.
A combination of the green building groundswell and the new economy may bring OVE and advanced framing into common practice.