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 […]
Does college or anything really prepare you for the real world?
If it is Tuesday, it must be time for another Blog Off with the links to others participating at the end of this article. This week’s topic is on “does college prepare you for the real world”? In a way, it is a timely topic, which affects not only the students, but also their parents […]
There’s no such thing as a free lunch – Roofing
Knock, knock – Hello? Hi, I’m Mike & we were just looking at your neighbors’ roof and thought we spotted some damage to yours, would you mind if we performed a free roof inspection? It will only take a few minutes, you see we do lots of insurance repair jobs and most of the time […]
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 […]
Building Green Homes: Step 6 – Drying In the Roof
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 (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, we got all the exterior framing completed & sheathed. In […]
Are you ready for this… National Residential Retrofit Guideline?
On Monday, I received an invitation to attend a webinar put on by DOE / NREL to attend a webinar entitled “National Residential Retrofit Guidelines: Update & Opportunities to Engage.” Hmmm, I had never heard of that and it sounded somewhat interesting. It also appeared at first glance to run after another webinar I was […]
Building smaller – is it the next big thing?
So what happens when you combine a bunch of designers spread out across the country that have their own blogs, with Twitter? The inventible – a blog-off where great ideas are shared amongst the group and everyone knows who won… (Individually: I did of course, but everyone else’s was really good)While I really cannot hold […]
Training Revisted – The battle to be the best
Wow what a long journey this has been, getting all the requisite classes in, the certifications, all the while still taking care of our primary remodeling business. While I have blogged extensively about this process and most of the classes – what would happen if I were to compare them side by side? What happens if we put them all in a ring; who would come out on top? Well let’s find out, and in the immortal words of Michael Buffer – “Are you ready to RUMBLE?”
Building Green Homes: Step 5 – Building the Shell
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 (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, we covered the installation from the footings to the sub-flooring […]
Building Green Homes: Step 4 – From Footings to Sub-Floor
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 (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article on footing & foundation system we used, we explained why […]
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