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Ft. Defiance High Performance Home

Ft. Defiance High Performance Home As we continue to document to process on our high performance home in Ft. Defiance, we will post updates. Here is the first post for this home: CLICK HERE
10 Jun 11
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Crossroads Farm High Performance Home

Update on blog from April: Ground breaking is scheduled this week for a high performance home in Crossroads Farm. The home is being built by Aaron Yoder of A. M. Yoder and Co. If you have questions about this project or if you want a home with very low energy bills, give me a...
10 Jun 11
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Ice House
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How do you measure success?

How do you measure success? Is it the percentage of jobs in the local economy that exist in locally owned businesses? Or is it the ability for your community to be self-reliant for things such as food, shelter, energy, and water? Do you look for vibrant businesses that understand...
10 Jun 11
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Getting started: Energy Efficiency in the Home

I hear it all the time, my house if pretty energy-efficient. Do you really know that it is or are you just guessing? Have you measured your home’s performance on the Energy Star Home Energy Yardstick? Have you done all the little things to make your home more...
08 Jun 11
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Basement Insulation
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Harrisonburg Construction Economy

Harrisonburg Construction Economy The Harrisonburg Construction economy is still struggling to recover, but are we looking at the wrong measure? The report this morning is that small businesses are uncertain about the economic recovery because consumers are not spending like they...
06 Jun 11
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Value Added Design – Go Green

Value Added Design - Go Green
22 May 11
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Harrisonburg Small Home
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What is a green architect?

What is a green architect? The term green get thrown around a lot in today’s market place. From national companies looking to get into the niche green cleaning market to start up companies offering new services like energy audits. How do you get through all the marketing...
17 May 11
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Proposed Green Apartments
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Higher density high quality housing

Higher density high quality housing We have been through this before. Developers are getting ready, looking for opportunities, gearing up for the next move towards higher density high quality housing. It is time to find those parcels in Harrisonburg that will allow for a higher...
16 May 11
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Harrisonburg Custom Home
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Playhouse Design 2011

Playhouse Design 2011 Here is the final version of the new playhouse for those interested. There was a LOT of input from my clients… We got great input from readers of this blog CLICK HERE. I look forward to good weather next weekend and the ground breaking ceremony!
15 May 11
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Architectural Coloring pages

Architectural Coloring pages Our new Architectural Coloring pages were a big hit at the Snow’s Garden Center Go Green Fest. We had plenty of kids and some parents color some pages even with the high humidity and moist paper. We are always looking for creative activities...
14 May 11
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Lower electric bills in a larger building

Lower electric bills in a larger building I just heard from a happy client this morning. We served as a green consultant for the design and construction of his new commercial building built by Glen Stoltzfus. He is seeing lower electric bills in a larger building. The building...
12 May 11
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Virginia Adopts 2009 Building Code

On March 1, 2011, the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code (USBC) update to reference the 2009 IECC and 2009 IRC became effective statewide (it currently references the 2006 versions of these codes). There will be a one-year phase-in period during which builders and designers...
10 May 11
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