Ahhh Solar Power – who can resist the lure of free energy for the taking which happens to also be the golden child of the Clean Tech industry, the government, and numerous other groups? I have been meaning to do an article about this issue for a while, especially after attending the Pickens Plan presentation […]
USGBC, the EPA, DOE & VP Biden – what a week:
If you have been following the news, the blogs & the tweets this week, I am sure you have seen all the announcements coming out, talking about this Energy Efficiency nirvana. Unfortunately, for the nirvana crowd, it seems almost everyone pulled a copy & paste & did not really dig into it these programs. Before […]
Building Green Homes: Step 10 – Drywall & Finishes
This is the last article in this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward involving the actual building process. In the last nine articles, we have gone over the major steps from designing to building a green home we completed over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how one can utilize those […]
Building Green Homes: Step 9 – Insulation
In this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can utilize those lessons on future builds. In the past articles, we have covered quite a few topics (listed at the end) and have left off […]
RESNET & BPI – the Pro’s & Con’s
As I mentioned after my final class recap, I was considering two final articles; the first one was a recap of the training process, followed up by a comparison of the systems. Many people tend to believe that there is no difference between the systems, except for the CAZ testing required by BPI. I can […]
Building Green Homes: Step 8 – Interior Framing, Rough-In’s
In this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can utilize those lessons on future builds. In the last two articles we covered in the drying in portion of the building. This process is necessary […]
Building Green Homes: Step 7 – Drying In the Walls / Air Sealing
Sorry, for the short break we took on this series entitled Looking Back & Looking Forward. As a reminder we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, […]
Sustainability, Green Building & You?
While attending the Green Building Focus Conference, one of the most interesting items I noticed was how almost all the Architects started their seminars off with their definitions of certain items. While some may have considered this as strange, (especially when you consider who their audience was) in essence it is almost a necessity. In […]
Recap of the 2010 Green Building Focus Conference
Coming out of my last set of classes, I had had it. I was looking forward to simply just going to the Remodeling & Deck Expo in Baltimore and possibly catching the Green Building Focus Expo in Birmingham. At that time, all I could envision was simply touring the Expo floors, catching up with some […]
Architects – Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR®
Recently we have been spending some time working on getting our Alabama Green Building Services & Solutions pages up on our main web site. While we normally don’t cross post, we thought some of the information on a few of our newer pages might be helpful. So with no further ado – our post for […]