green building Archives - Energy Vanguard https://www.energyvanguard.com/tag/green-building/ Building science knowledge, HVAC design, & fun Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:02:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 7 Wishes for a Green ’16 https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/7-wishes-for-a-green-16/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/7-wishes-for-a-green-16/#view_comments Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=7-wishes-for-a-green-16 Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, said “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” Bohr was a pretty smart guy, having been one of the folks who got the whole quantum physics thing going a century ago, and…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/7-wishes-for-a-green-16/feed/ 8 A Beautiful Solar Home in Utah Nears Net Zero Energy Use https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-beautiful-solar-home-in-utah-nears-net-zero-energy-use/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-beautiful-solar-home-in-utah-nears-net-zero-energy-use/#view_comments Wed, 18 Mar 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=a-beautiful-solar-home-in-utah-nears-net-zero-energy-use I’m writing this on St. Patrick’s Day so let me tell you a wee bit about the O’Mearas. Kevin and Svetlana O’Meara live in a beautiful home in Utah that’s oh-so-close to being a net zero energy home. After I…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-beautiful-solar-home-in-utah-nears-net-zero-energy-use/feed/ 32 Dr. Bailes to Speak in Nashville on Energy Efficiency in New Homes https://www.energyvanguard.com/newsroom/dr-bailes-to-speak-in-nashville-on-energy-efficiency-in-new-homes/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/newsroom/dr-bailes-to-speak-in-nashville-on-energy-efficiency-in-new-homes/#view_comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?newsroom=dr-bailes-to-speak-in-nashville-on-energy-efficiency-in-new-homes E3 Innovate is hosting an event in Nashville this Friday called The Future of Building Is Now. Energy Vanguard’s founder, Allison A. Bailes III, PhD, will give two presentations: E3 Innovate is hosting an event in Nashville this Friday called The Future…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/newsroom/dr-bailes-to-speak-in-nashville-on-energy-efficiency-in-new-homes/feed/ 1 The Top 10 Mistakes I Made in Building a Green Home https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-top-10-mistakes-i-made-in-building-a-green-home/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-top-10-mistakes-i-made-in-building-a-green-home/#view_comments Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=the-top-10-mistakes-i-made-in-building-a-green-home When I wrote about the net zero energy home that Amy Musser and Matt Vande built, I was really impressed that they were willing to share the mistakes they’d made and what they would do differently if they could go…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-top-10-mistakes-i-made-in-building-a-green-home/feed/ 8 Guest Post: The Fatal Flaw in Advanced Framing, Part 2 https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-2/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-2/#view_comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-2 The tragedy of this is that in the effort to sell Advanced Framing as a whole package, presenting it as an alternative to Western Platform Framing, the sensible housing industry has thrown out the very easy and productive suggestions from…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-2/feed/ 4 Guest Post: The Fatal Flaw in Advanced Framing, Part 1 https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-1/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-1/#view_comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-1 A few weeks ago Allison made a couple of quips that could be construed as critical of Advanced Framing methods, also often referred to optimistically as Optimum Value Engineering (OVE). I myself am generally critical of Advanced Framing, so perhaps…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/guest-post-the-fatal-flaw-in-advanced-framing-part-1/feed/ 18 The Energy Nerd’s Tour of Green Homes in Georgia https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-energy-nerd-s-tour-of-green-homes-in-georgia/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-energy-nerd-s-tour-of-green-homes-in-georgia/#view_comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=the-energy-nerds-tour-of-green-homes-in-georgia Martin Holladay, the Energy Nerd of Green Building Advisor, is in Atlanta this week to speak at the Greenprints conference put on by Southface Energy Institute. He asked if I could take him to see some homes in Georgia so…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-energy-nerd-s-tour-of-green-homes-in-georgia/feed/ 5 Harnessing the Power of Self Delusion to Build a Green Home https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-self-delusion-to-build-a-green-home/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-self-delusion-to-build-a-green-home/#view_comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=harnessing-the-power-of-self-delusion-to-build-a-green-home I loved the book,* A Beautiful Mind, the story of John Forbes Nash, Jr. It was fascinating to read about how he approached mathematical problems, and even more fascinating to read about his descent into paranoid schizophrenia. Nash, who later…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-self-delusion-to-build-a-green-home/feed/ 6 Review of an Introductory Green Building Textbook https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/review-of-an-introductory-green-building-textbook/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/review-of-an-introductory-green-building-textbook/#view_comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=review-of-an-introductory-green-building-textbook Ah, textbooks, those compendia of facts and figures that we lug around when we’re in school. We do multitudinous homework assignments out of them and spend countless hours trying to make sense of the great collections of information within them.…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/review-of-an-introductory-green-building-textbook/feed/ 4 Not All Knowledge Comes from College https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/not-all-knowledge-comes-from-college/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/not-all-knowledge-comes-from-college/#view_comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=not-all-knowledge-comes-from-college Do you really need to go to college? If your heart’s not in it, you can’t find a field of study that excites you, and your college degree doesn’t help your job prospects, the answer may be no. But what…

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