Residential Construction

noel on July 22nd, 2009

Here is an exciting example of green design filled with good ideas. This LEED certified home in Arlington is also an beautiful example of how a lower carbon footprint looks and how utility bills can be lowered to almost nothing. Is it ironic that the house is listed for $1.175 million but the utilities are [...]

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I have been seeing more and more use of a dramatically different but simple solution to the age old problem of how to best construct a crawl space. Years ago, I decided that they were evil, but I seem to end up with them in so many buildings that I work on. There are better [...]

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noel on May 5th, 2009

Am I imagining this? Is this ridiculous or what? New homes?! During the week of April 26th, Texas-based Guaranty Bank demolished about a dozen new houses in California. I don’t understand how or why they could not find a buyer for these frame structures who would move them and save all this hard work and [...]

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