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Building Green Homes: Step 1 – Design & Modeling

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. As everyone knows, you don’t start building without a plan (hopefully I can find that file soon). While this […]

Filed Under: Energy Modeling, Going Green? Tagged With: Building America, Looking Back July 21, 2010 By SLS

Building Green Homes: Looking back & Lessons Learned

I guess I can credit some of my desire to learn about and utilize energy efficient designs, green buildings, & solar power with the area I grew up in. I can recall some of our schools field trips where we would go see new houses being built with photovoltaic panels, and eating food cooked on […]

Filed Under: Common Sense Building, Energy Efficiency, EnergyStar, Going Green?, Universal Design Tagged With: Looking Back July 19, 2010 By SLS

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