Building

• Ventilation

  Weatherization and Ventilation

  How to make homes tight and ventilate right.
• Healthy Home

  National Nonprofits to Combine Forces to Advance Healthy Homes and Communities

  The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the Alliance for Healthy Homes (Alliance) have announced plans to join forces.
• Healthy Buildings

  Elements That Contribute to Healthy Building Design

  Three viewpoints of designing a healthy building include: the importance of sustainable development, the role of occupants for ensuring indoor air quality, and ongoing developments related to indoor finishes with low chemical emissions and good fungal resistance.
• Chemical Sensitivity

  Case Study: Building a Home for the Chemically Sensitive

  In early 2007 Kevin and Kathy Christopherson set about building a home in Hanover, Wisconsin. This was no ordinary new home construction, though. Since Kathy has an acute chemical sensitivity, special precautions were necessary – precautions that presented some particularly challenging construction issues.
• Energy Saving

  Deep Energy Cuts for a Fresh Start

  The homeowner gains a finished, insulated basement, a healthy house, and an estimated energy savings of a whopping 81%.