Green Homes- Page 6 of 11
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A Thick Cocoon of Cellulose Protects This Superinsulated House
By Robert Riversong I was hired to design and build a home for a Vermont land owner who wanted a house that would be affordable to build, affordable to live…
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Energy-Efficient Straw-bale Home in the Colorado Rockies
By Doug Graybeal Our house is located outside of Carbondale, Colo., at an altitude of 7,000 feet. The architecture is both responsive to the climate — a dry mountain environment…
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Owner-Builders Get a Tight Shell With SIPs
By David and Cathy Glasser To see a video tour of this home, click here. Acting as general contractors, my wife Cathy (a nurse practitioner) and I (a jazz musician)…
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Careful Air Sealing Trims Energy Use at New College Dorms
By Hal Bohner In the cold climate of coastal Maine, effective air sealing is critical to maximizing energy efficiency. The architect for the project, Bruce Coldham, said, “We have tried…
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A True Net-Zero Gut Rehab, New England-Style
By Peter Yost and Martin Holladay Before retrofit work began, Jane Bindley's 1978 ranch house on the shore of Squam Lake was an ordinary fiberglass-insulated energy hog. Bindley had a…
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California Retrofit Measures Cut Energy Use by 45%
With help from the local utility, a California builder has turned a foreclosed property into a cutting-edge energy-efficient demonstration home. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the sixth-largest public utility…
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Easy LEED Platinum?
“It was easier than I thought,” says Amy Levin when first asked about her LEED for Homes Platinum gut rehab. This would not be the last time my jaw would…
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A Two-Phased LEED for Homes Gut Rehab
Don’t all major home renovations span decades? Jim Newman and Sarah Slaughter bought a rather pedestrian Cambridge home in 1996 and began full renovation in 2001, recently completing the metamorphosis…
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A 100-Year-Old Energy Star Home
Anders Lewendal likes to lead — he is president of his local homebuilder’s association and chairs its green building committee, sits on the Mayor’s Climate Control Task Force, and has…
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The Fruits of Labor: Gut-Rehabbing the Structure and the Lot
When Dan Cote bought this run-down property on Woodstock Avenue in Portland, he wanted to take everything he had learned about high-performance building and building science from his day job…
