Energy Efficiency - Page 62 of 76

Home Energy Diet for an Old Victorian
Sealing the crawlspace and plugging holes cut a big home's heating bill in half.
Build It Right: Lessons From New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina can teach us many things. Make It Right wants safe, affordable, energy-efficient building to be one of them.
How to Insulate Cold Floors
For better energy performance, homes built on piers, rooms above garages, and cantilevered bays need properly air-sealed and insulated floors.
Energy-Smart Details
These construction drawings illustrate the details that make houses more durable, comfortable, and energy efficient.
25 Ways to Save Energy and Money
Cut energy use and costs with these "next-step" strategies.
Foam Shrinks, and Other Lessons
What we learned from updating a 16-year-old deep-energy retrofit.
Air-Sealing a Basement
Learn the places where cold air is most likely to leak in during the winter and how best to seal them.
Should I Close My Attic Gable Vents?
Get insight into the complicated relationship between ridge vents, gable vents, and attic floors.
Researching Retrofit Technology in the Northwest
Using two identical, side-by-side homes as their laboratory, DOE researchers aim to measure the effectiveness of a variety of energy efficiency improvements
Improving Performance of a SIPs Roof
A layer of foam added to the outside of a structural insulated panel should reduce heat losses via thermal bridging. The question is whether the foam will increase the risk…

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