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Green Building
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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - The net cost of owning a green home can be comparable to that of owning a conventional home – sometimes even less.
- Incorporating Universal Design (UD)features into a bathroom remodel will not only add value to your home, but will help ensure your bathroom is ready for all ages and circumstances.
- Big benefits for you and the planet.
- What if residential color schemes offered more than personal expression? Could they make a home safer to live in?
- Pressure-treated wood impregnated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) - often with a greenish tint - was widely used for decks and porches prior to its being discontinued for residential use in 2003-2004. Since treated wood has a long lifespan, there is still plenty of CCA pressure-treated wood surrounding residences, prompting caution due to its arsenic content.
- Universal design strives to be a broad-spectrum solution that helps everyone, not just people with disabilities.
- This nonprofit organization is the leading name in performance certification of residential ventilation products, providing the link between ventilation and healthy, energy-efficient homes.
- LEED for Homes is a green home certification system for assuring homes are designed and built to be energy- and resource-efficient and healthy for occupants.
- Tight, energy-saving homes have prompted makers of ventilators to develop new, innovative products and systems.
- If we still rode horses every day, we’d never have a barn attached to the house because the animal odors would be objectionable. Yet houses routinely have an attached garage which contains much more unhealthy odors.
- The majority of the balanced ventilation systems on the market are heat recovery ventilators (HRVs). Most HRVs consist of an insulated cabinet, a heat-recovery core, two fans, some ductwork, and a control. But not all HRVs are created equal.
- Greening a house that was built before we knew to care isn\'t impossible; here are 45 tips.
- The National Green Building Standard (ICC 700-2008) for all residential construction work including single-family homes, apartments and condos, land development and remodeling and renovation has been approved by the American National Standards Institute.
- Tips for building or retrofitting your home for energy efficiency, cost-savings, and indoor air quality
- The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently completed the first U.S. scientific review of healthy homes interventions.
- Builders tend to focus more on energy and environmental conservation in their selection of green features; and may inadvertently contribute to poor indoor air quality (IAQ).
- All green building programs require mechanical ventilation individually designed for each house.
- The harmonious interaction with nature is the guiding principle of the Building Biology approach to healthy home building.
- EPA\'s Energy Star program now addresses indoor air quality (IAQ). Here is a summary of requirements you can use to improve your home\'s IAQ.
- The most important step to take in building or remodeling a house is to eliminate toxic materials as often as possible.
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