Building Matters
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Using NEEP Software to Size a Heat Pump
The Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership provides a tool for analyzing heating and cooling–loads data to inform location-specific selection of heat pump equipment
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Interview with Katrin Klingenberg
A discussion on what it will take to move the building industry toward climate-positive methods and materials
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Building Design Affects Carbon Output
"Diminishing returns" are no excuse when it comes to conserving energy and reducing carbon emissions
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Five Ways to Reduce Carbon Emissions in Your Home
Start by understanding the difference between energy use and embodied carbon and "now" and "later" emissions to set your priorities
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Built From Earth and By the Community
A Minneapolis couple create their dream strawbale home with a focus on high performance and energy efficiency
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Residential Post-and-Frame Construction, Part 6: HVAC System
Mechanical systems, blower-door results, and final thoughts
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Rethinking Window Size
Windows are carbon-intensive and a source of air leakage, so let's make them smaller
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Storing Residential Solar Power
With an increase in the popularity of electric vehicles and solar panels, new building code requirements for safely housing systems to store excess energy have cropped up
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Do Deep-Energy Retrofits Make Sense?
One design-build firm says no and instead favors modest building envelope upgrades, larger heat pump systems, and residential solar production
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Training for the Trades, Part 4
Sashco provides best practices for maintaining log homes, a notoriously problematic building type
