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Big question for us: do we go all-in on 100% heat pumps?  Or do we go with hybrid heat pumps?  The energy engineer is all-in on heat pumps and thinks…

Dear GBA Community, We are in the midst of building a moderate-to-high-performance home in central Vermont.  Following extensive discussions with our architect, we had settled on the following wall assembly (from…

Does GBA have an article illustrating various ways to detail roof overhangs for an unvented roof where 100% of the insulation is rigid foam on top of the roof sheathing?…

1550 square foot duplex home built in 1900 in Western Massachusetts3 floors: first floor is one unit, second and third floor is a second unitCurrently heated by a 90k btu…

My garage workshop will have interior osb sheathing. The building inspector says I don't have to have any vapour barrier because it's a garage. It seems that the argument against…

We are having a coravent rain screen installed with vertically hinged corrugated metal siding over it. With this siding material, it will be impossible to make sure every nail securing…

What the building industry can do with forever chemicals

I am in the process of finalizing design and beginning build of a 1500 square ft slab on grade ranch in climate zone 5 and I am trying to decide…

My renovation - green I promise - has encountered some difficulties, and I need either a suspended slab or floor joists just below grade.  (The ground cannot support a slab,…