May 31st, 2009 at 10:18pm
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I was driving around the countryside today and I noticed my neighbor is building a new home which is alway as an attraction. I as some strange panels in his yard and a different set up than other stick build sitesI discovered they are building with SIPS or Super Insulated Building Panels.
Curious I did some research and found that this isn’t necessarily a new building concept. It is fairly new to our area. I only found 3 builders in the area that work with this type of SIPS. The first SIPs structure was built in 1935 for the US Forest Proucts Labratory in 1935. It began to rise in popularty again in the 1970’s during the energy crunch.
SIPS panels by enercept
Now that were are in another energy crunch I bet we will see more and more SIPS constrution. One of the draws to SIPs construction is the insulation factor making some SIPS homes use 50% less energy than conventionally framed homes.
Enercept a company that focuses on SIPS has done several studies on the engergy efficience of the panels.
I think that SIPs construction is something I will be doing more research in.
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April 19th, 2009 at 06:04pm
Under Green Building
A great way to reduce your electric costs is to use solar tubes in your home. Solar tubes can be added to your home or placed in new construction. A solar tube is different than a traditional skylight. A solar tube is designed to collect light and reflect it into the room of your choice. A solar tube does not need to be installed in a straight path to create light. The tube can be angled to reach the room that you want to illuminate.
The light refracted in the tube can also be difused to create different lighting effects in your home. So straight sunlight is not the only option. You can work with your supplier to add different lens to create a warm or cool color effect in your home. You can also use different lens to dim the light coming into the room.
The sun can now light your home without using electricity and still give you several options for lighting.
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April 19th, 2009 at 03:45am
Under Green Building
Green building is also know as sustainable building. Green building can be the renovation of a older property or building from scratch. Green building is also called sustainable building. The point of green building is to create a structure that is built with ecological friendly products and and operated in a resource-efficient manner. A green building meets the are designed to protect an occupants health, improve employee productivity, use energy, water and other resources as efficiently as possible. A green built structure is to reduce the overall impact on the environment.
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