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Risky Business

My reasons were liability, redundancy between programs (how do you know which is best), unnecessary I believe in residential housing as it offers no tax breaks only additional costs and more importantly if you are building correctly and with energy efficiency and sustainability in mind you don’t need the silly plaque on the wall.. just do it. And

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Extreme Makeover in Hattiesburg MS Starts this Weekend

As the home’s green building verifier I’ll be traveling to the “Hub City” at 3:30 or 4:00 a.m. (I should have my head examined) on Monday the 7th for the faming inspection and thermal bypass checklist…(now that should be the news story…that someone was able to get my butt out-a-bed that early for

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Pervious Concrete

Pervious concrete allows water to flow through thereby slowing down the water run-off rate.

Pervious concrete can take in storm water at a rate of 3 to 5 gallons per minute per square foot of surface area. That exceeds the flow rate needed to prevent runoff in most rain events. The rainwater may be

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1.1.1 NGBG – LOT DESIGN, PREPARATION, AND DEVELOPMENT

NAHB Green Building Guidelines –

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Efficiency is cheap, but will it sell?

Expect to see this number a lot in energy discussions over the next few years: 2.5 cents/kWh. It is the average cost of energy efficiency, a figure pegged this week in a new report by the American Council for an Energy Efficient

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