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Quality building materials are durable with long life expectancies and less frequent maintenance, repair and replacement cycles. Specifying quality building…

Rectangular Footprint: In this article, we talked about basic house design. You can save a tremendous amount of money on…

Don’t you just hate paying for wasted materials? Visit a typical residential construction site and look in the dumpster. The…

Continuous and contiguous air, thermal and moisture barriers are essential to healthy, high-performance homes, but it takes meticulous detail work…

The priority considerations for all interior finish products are durability and impact on indoor air quality. It is worthwhile to…

It would be impossible for us to cover all of the building materials on the market in this article. Now…

With regard to resource efficiency, we need products that consume fewer high-value natural resources both initially in their manufacture and…

There are complete books on the market that give detailed descriptions of the vast array of building materials available. As…

Our choices of building products and how well we use them contribute greatly to achieving our goals of energy, water…