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Strength in Numbers
Keeping score can help you make your business profitable, design more energy-efficient homes, and better understand home performance
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Visiting a District Heating Plant in Austria
Hundreds of buildings in Flachau, Austria, are heated by a central plant that burns wood chips from local forests
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A Post-Passivhaus Paradigm for Energy-Efficient Design
In hot, humid climates, the most important HVAC design variable is the latent load
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A Review of Siga Wigluv Air-Sealing Tape
To seal air leakage at OSB seams, first use a primer, and install the Wigluv tape with a J-roller
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Ban the Can
Why you should avoid recessed lights
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District Heating
In Denmark, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, many urban neighborhoods are served by central plants that distribute hot water or steam to individual buildings
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A Visit to a German Home Center
The Bauhaus store in Berlin resembles a Home Depot or Lowe’s — but offers many products that are unavailable in the U.S.
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Practical Design Advice for Zero-Net-Energy Homes
Marc Rosenbaum answers questions submitted by GBA readers
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Minisplit Heat Pumps and Zero-Net-Energy Homes
What we know, what we wish we knew, and an invitation to readers to ask more questions
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A German Deep-Energy Retrofit
In Berlin, expanded polystyrene (EPS) is the insulation of choice for exterior insulation retrofit projects