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Can a 150-year-old house approach zero energy use? Three case studies point the was from the 19th to the 21st century. Reprinted with permission from Fine Homebuilding, April/May 2008, pages 51-57…

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Spray foam insulation has significant advantages over other insulation systems due to the spray foam ability to provide continuity of the water control, air control…

Houses are environmental separators – they keep the outside out and the inside in.   Houses have walls, roofs and foundations that each have to be connected to each other (…

The purpose of this guide is to provide useful examples of high performance retrofit techniques for the building enclosure of wood frame residential construction in a cold and somewhat wet climate…

Exterior insulation retrofit is a reasonable step if a recladding of the building is already being done for aesthetic or ongoing maintenance reasons. This paper presents many of the lessons…

Dirty Harry Does Insulation^…

Wall assembly design and construction needs to consider rain, temperature, humidity as defined by the hygro-thermal regions, annual rainfall and the interior climate classes as environmental loads…

We looked at exterior spray foam previously (BSI-048: “Exterior Spray Foam”, April 2011). …

Chicago is well known for a bunch of things—among them a baseball team that does not win, fabulous pizza^…