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Webinar on Demand: The New American Home 2023, High-Performance Features

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Webinar on Demand: The New American Home 2023, High-Performance Features ibush Mon, 04/03/2023 - 18:30 In the second of two webinars about The New American Home 2023, we explore how the luxury home is also a model of resource efficiency, from next-level energy and water savings to indoor air quality and materials use.

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Decrease Lumber Use With High-Performance Building Strategies

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Lumber prices are now up to nearly $1,000 per thousand board feet, increasing the cost of a home by nearly $24,000, according to NAHB estimates. To lower the demand on the timber industry and reduce the amount of lumber used, builders may look toward sustainable timber, such as SFI- and FSC-certified lumber. Building Materials.

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Ken Calligar Is Shaping a New Era of Resilient Construction

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Sustainability. One solution comes in the form of a 3D cementitious panel by Re-Structure Group that won the 2019 NAHB Global Innovation Award for its weather resistance and energy efficiency. . Veev’s Amit Haller on Scaling Innovation and Shortening the Supply Chain. Fri, 04/01/2022 - 10:39. Affordability. Resilience.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: New National.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. View my complete profile. Oil and electricity consumption is down in the U.S. February 04, 2009.

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The New American Home 2023: A Haven on the Hill

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That meant using the topography and natural materials as a guide for the home’s construction and design. We design from the outside in when it comes to materiality,” Gardner says, “so that even when you’re in the home, you feel like you’re outside.” The 2023 exhibition home is no exception. While the owners of this $13.5

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Green.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. The Green Building Guidelines were written by the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council.

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Construction Workforce Development Gets New Funding Boost

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Research by economists at the National Association of Home Builders ( NAHB ) indicates that the home building industry requires almost 2.2 With these grant commitments, the Lowe’s Foundation will fund each grantee for two years to help them build sustainable, innovative training and workforce development programs. Kohler Jr.

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