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3 Questions Answered About Reliable Energy in Home Construction

Energy expert Bryan Cordill makes a case for why and how propane is an answer to growing concerns about reliability and resilience in home construction 




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Design

Valle Group builds Passive House-certified home in New England

Earlier this month, the Valle Group completed construction on the nation’s 24th certified Passive House, located in East Falmouth, Mass. The house was built virtually airtight and is heated through passive solar gain, according to standards set by the Passive House Institute in Urbana, Ill.

Green & Sustainable

The Lean and Green Builder: Lesson 9 - WaterSense makes cents

Walking in my home last evening, I was greeted with the usual excitement of children running around, the dog barking and my wife sharing the latest…

Energy efficiency

The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 7 - better energy management

With so many definitions of energy efficiency, it is often difficult to pin down what that means.  For the most part, a consumer defines energy…

Marketing & Sales

The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 5 - Green marketing

Greening your marketing plan requires a different thought process and action plan than what you might expect.  In the upcoming months, I will be…

Design

The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 4 - Plan for something greener

  Todd Hallett does a great job helping us to understand the tremendous costs associated with inefficient, poorly designed plans.  Making plans more…

Best Practices

The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 2 — Change your frames

At a recent conference, I shared an analogy that bears repeating here. The auto industry has experienced tremendous changes over the past five…

Technology

Lutron Sivoia QS Wireless

Lutron’s Sivoia QS Wireless system offers convenient daylight control for new or retrofit applications with ultra-quiet performance, precision shade alignment, and the elimination of communication wiring.

Green & Sustainable

The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 1 – Waste Not, Be Green

Becoming a sustainable, green builder needs to follow a structured process that allows a builder to shape green features to fit with their particular…

Green & Sustainable

The Lean & Green Blog: Lessons NOT Learned

The building industry, unfortunately, continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. Green building remains one of the most talked about…

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