Industry Center

The Propane Energy Pod Improves Home Energy Performance

This comprehensive approach to building with propane maximizes efficiency, performance, comfort, and carbon reduction. Use our online tool to see how Pod homes stack up against standard homes in your region.

 

Featured Webinar

Framing Innovations

Framing Innovations explores the concepts and provides detailed illustrations of advanced framing and other wood-based structural innovations that help improve building performance and energy efficiency while lowering materials and labor costs.

Innovative Floor Planning: The New American Home

Featuring Tyler Jones, owner of Blue Heron, the home's design-build firm, this webinar will explore the nuances of the home's floor plan and overall design intent, and how Blue Heron will leverage its work to continue to succeed in the luxury home market in Las Vegas.

Green Plumbers Solar Workshop

This 20 minute program is a sampling from IAPMO’s GreenPlumbers Training and Accreditation core classes of environmental literacy. These programs are appropriate for plumbers or individuals interested in improving the performance of solar thermal water heaters and in sustainable plumbing designs and installations.

 

Featured White Papers

Energy Savings Start With the Framing

This white paper, commissioned by Norbord, Inc., outlines the many benefits of combining raised-heel roof trusses (also called high-heel or energy trusses) with TallWall OSB sheathing panels to deliver improved home performance as well as labor and materials savings.

How ease-of-use products are evolving to meet new and growing demand

This paper highlights the key elements of Universal Design. It also provides steps to meet the growing demand for Universal Design and expolores the role the latest innovations in ease-of-use products help to meet these needs.

How Advanced Window Technologies Enhance Green Building Performance

This white paper examines the vital role that ultra-efficient windows play in a whole-home approach to residential remodeling and new construction. Learning how to distinguish high-efficiency windows from standard products allows builders, remodelers, and design professionals to achieve demanding project efficiency and sustainability goals.

Can Your Flooring Survive 14 Days of Flooding?

PointSIX™ Flooring, with its patented tapered-edge technology, offsets the effects of prolonged exposure to moisture. Download the white paper to see the remarkable test results.