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Chris Laumer-Giddens's Blog Posts Tagged 'performance' (4)
Designing A Perfect Residential Wall - Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia has a reputation for getting pretty darn hot, but it can also get pretty dang cold (No snickering from you Northerners, please!). Believe it or not, Atlantans use more energy to heat their homes than they do to cool them. The design temperature set by …
Added by Chris Laumer-Giddens on March 6, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments
14 Design Don’ts for High Performance Homes
Added by Chris Laumer-Giddens on February 14, 2013 at 7:30am — 8 Comments
Part II: Designing for High Performance, Controlling Heat Flow in Slab-On-Grade
In Part I of this series on designing for high performance, we discussed the control…
ContinueAdded by Chris Laumer-Giddens on August 15, 2012 at 3:15am — No Comments
Designing for High Performance: Slab-On-Grade, Part I – Controlling Moisture Flow
We’re just a few weeks away from a computer generated, self-guided interactive virtual tour of the Serenbe Residence near Atlanta, Georgia (Climate Zone 3a). We’re using REVIT software to generate the 3D model, then …
ContinueAdded by Chris Laumer-Giddens on August 13, 2012 at 4:00am — 6 Comments
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