Recent Articles
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Best Practices for Zero Net Energy Buildings
Marc Rosenbaum shares a baker’s dozen of design essentials
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Reflections on BuildingEnergy 2015
A bumper crop of new ideas made this year's NESEA conference one of the best ever
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Minisplit Heat Pumps and Blizzards
Outdoor units that are mounted near grade can get buried by snow
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Drainwater Heat Recovery Comes of Age
Unlike most drainwater heat exchangers, the EcoDrain is installed horizontally
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What We Started With
We bought a house that needed a lot of work
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解决我们的设计n Problems
Our new house needed an addition, but we didn’t want the addition to be too big
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Moving to a New House
Before moving in, we decided to gut the house and perform a deep energy retrofit
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Practical Design Advice for Zero-Net-Energy Homes
Marc Rosenbaum answers questions submitted by GBA readers
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Minisplit Heat Pumps and Zero-Net-Energy Homes
What we know, what we wish we knew, and an invitation to readers to ask more questions
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Big Variations in Annual Energy Use
In a net-zero-energy building, the weather determines how much energy you need to buy