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Building- The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the Alliance for Healthy Homes (Alliance) have announced plans to join forces.
- 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.
- 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.
- The homeowner gains a finished, insulated
basement, a healthy house, and an estimated
energy savings of a whopping 81%.
- The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about LEED for Homes.
- The Rinnai® R94LSi Interior Tankless Heater heats water on demand without storing it - or keeping it hot - in a tank, providing \'endless\' hot water cost-effectively.
- Mold and moisture-resistant paperless drywall made from over 90% recycled material.
- Low-VOC fast curing, flat finish primer.
- Attractive, durable carpet tiles made from renewable and recyclable materials.
- Efficient and quiet ventilation fans designed to move air with the lowest power consumption and sound levels.
- Silent and economical Heat Recovery Ventilator(HRV) designed to improve indoor air quality by bringing in fresh, outside air while limiting the change in indoor temperature and saving energy.
- Green Building Products is the GreenSpec® Guide to residential building materials.
- Guide to renewable energy, sustainable living, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living, and alternative transportation.
- Guide to building houses that are healthy to live in and cause minimal damage to the environment.
- Comprehensive guide to residential ventilation systems.
- A practical guide to solar electricity and achieving energy independence.
- Air from a living space that enters an air handler, such as a furnace or air conditioner, and is returned back to the space.
- An engineered opening through which fresh air enters a house.
- Building techniques that result in a house with a small effective leakage area (ELA) to conserve energy.
- A class of hundreds of different molecular compounds containing carbon that easily evaporates, often released from building materials and found as contaminants in indoor air.
- A material that slows down the amount of diffusion through a solid material, often used in insulated walls.
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