Dr. Achilles Karagiozis Brings a Hands-on Approach to Building Science
We chatted with Dr. Karagiozis to address key learnings regarding the role of Building Science in advancing high performance homebuilding.
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Homebuyers from Millennials to Boomers are Transforming the Housing Market
According to the Urban Land Institute’s report “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2015,” the combined impact of millennials and aging boomers—all 160 million of them—will have a significant impact on the housing market for years to come. Find out what this means for builders.
Creating Green Homes That Perform for Your Customers and Your Business
The decision to offer homes that are high performance, energy efficient, non-toxic, sustainable—whatever the preferred term—involves many considerations. Of course, green building techniques and products reduce a home’s environmental impact as well as owners’ operational costs, but what do they do for a builder’s bottom line?
Where Building Professionals and Building Science Work Together
We’re all in this together. Building science can help builders achieve goals, and in turn, builders can help building science teams learn from their experiences helping builders. These partnerships help build better homes.
Simplifying the Science of Insulation for Your Customers
Thermal insulation has been used in buildings all over the world for many decades. Yet every so often, even seasoned professionals face a difficult time explaining how it works. And frankly, the mechanisms involved are not that simple. Find out more about how insulation works in this article.
How the 2015 IECC Changes Impact Your Business
The latest version of the energy code offers a new way to achieve significant energy savings while providing builders with more flexibility. Find out what you need to know.
Building High-Performance Features into Production Homes
To build a house to the rigorous Passive House standards involves a large investment that may be challenging to many profit-minded home builders. The idea of lowering the home’s carbon footprint is certainly appealing to many homeowners, but the substantial upfront cost is a roadblock that may be tough to overcome. This article offers a few ideas for overcoming this roadblock and building a higher performing home.
How Quail Homes Takes Thermal Performance to the Next Level
Quail Homes has introduced a new way of bringing air tightness, improved thermal value and increased moisture management to their homes.
Energy Efficiency, Innovation, Rigid Foam Insulation, Smart Home
Making Smart Sustainable-Space Decisions That Make a High-Performance Home
As awareness of the part that materials included in our built environments play increases, consumers are making more sustainable purchases for their homes and offices. It is our responsibility, as building experts and contributors, to reduce these health and environmental conditions by designing and utilizing low emitting and sustainable products and ensuring that we reduce the environmental impacts we cause by producing them. Find out more about how UL Environment can help.
Teaming Up to Build Demand for High-Performance Homes
To further pursue energy-efficient, sustainable building, New Town Builders and Owens Corning Insulating Systems functioned as an integrated team to build demand by translating advanced building science into meaningful homebuyer benefits worth paying for.
Energy Efficiency, Homebuyer Education, Industry Collaboration
Palo Duro Homes, Inc. On Using Building Science to Create More Appealing Homes
Together, Palo Duro Homes and Owens Corning Insulating Systems teamed up to leverage their building expertise to create energy efficient, sustainable and affordable ComfortBuilt™ homes in Palo Duro’s Cielo Azul neighborhood, just outside of Santa Fe.
Healthy Home, Industry Collaboration, Innovation, Smart Home