Green Homes- Page 7 of 11
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Brand New Appearance and Performance for An Older Duplex
By Cador Price-Jones There are 120 million homes in America, and we need to figure out how to retrofit them for the new reality that we live in. We cannot…
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Greening the HOME Rochester Program
How HOME Rochester works The HOME Rochester Program acquires vacant single-family homes in Rochester NY, typically foreclosures, and rehabilitates them for resale to qualifying first-time homebuyers earning less than 80%…
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Atlanta Historic Retrofit
Honoring an amazing 100-year context
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A Green Bath Retrofit: From Structure to Finish
Our second-floor, 50-square-foot full bathroom provides the only bathing in this 100-year-old house, so we had to make it work. We wanted to make the room feel bigger and deal…
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From ‘Tea House’ to Tight House
By Doug Snyder In 2008, contractor Dwight Holmes went to work with homeowner Mary Sargent on a deep energy retrofit of her 1917 “Tea House.” Nestled into a hillside apple…
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A Net-Zero Townhouse in Oakland
Not many projects achieve HERS 0, especially on a small urban infill site. But that's the score achieved by the Lancaster Live/Work Townhome, a recently completed (Fall 2009) project in…
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A Fast Kitchen Addition Made With SIPs
Old houses didn't need big kitchens because they weren't the central gathering spot that today's kitchens are. The 12-ft. by 12-ft. kitchen in the house my wife, Chris, and I…
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Foam Forms Create an Energy-Efficient Concrete House
By Rouleen Williams My plans to build a dream home took years to bear fruit. I took the first step in 1988, when I bought an 18-acre property in Salisbury,…
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This Green Garage is a Powerhouse
By Thomas McGrath With help from a photovoltaic (PV) array, this garage in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood produces far more energy than it consumes. Made from durable green materials, the garage…
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NC Home Grabs Five Green Ratings
UPDATED 2/23/2011 with floor plans, details, and an energy use graph Although I’ve been building green homes for 30 years, I joined the certification game only five years ago. I’ve…
