Posts Tagged ‘energy star home’
NAHB National Green Building Program – Seminar day 1
Today I attended the first day of a seminar titled “Green Building for Building Professionals” which is a mandatory course for the NAHB’s new “Certified Green Professional” (CGP) designation. It is held as part of the NAHB’s National Green Building Conference in Dallas, TX. Being mainly involved with the LEED for Homes standard in the
Floor finishing with GreenGuard certified products
We installed beautiful 100 year old reclaimed long-leaf pine floors in this project several months ago. The finishing process started on Monday and Trinity flooring had two sanding crews working to get this project completed on schedule. We use a dust reduction sanding system, which means all sanders are hooked up to an external vacuum
Geothermal HVAC | System installation
A geothermal system installation is actually quite simple. First, the wells get drilled. After they are drilled they need to settle for a while about 1-2 weeks. In our case, we drilled and let them settle for 2 weeks. We drilled a total of 12 wells – all at 250′ depth. Originally we had only
