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Vapor Barriers Are a Good Thing, Right?

FHBdotcom, editor | August 17th, 201018 comments

Builders once routinely stapled up sheets of polyethylene plastic on interior walls before the drywall went up to stop the flow of moisture-laden air into exterior walls. With moisture stopped in its...

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Does Rigid Foam Insulation Trap Moisture in the Walls?

FHBdotcom, editor | June 24th, 20109 comments

You can seriously cut your home's demand for energy by adding rigid insulation, but will wrapping your home with foam cause the walls to rot?

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IBS 2010: Green Builder Donates 1,000 Homes to Haitians

FPR, contributor | January 28th, 20105 comments

New building technology firm, InnoVida™, donates 1,000 homes to Haiti using Fiber Composite Structural Insulated panels introduced at IBS.

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Which is the greenest wall system: brick, stucco, or EIFS?

JFink, Senior Editor | November 17th, 20094 comments

BASF recently conducted an Eco-Efficiency Analysis of wall systems to determine whether brick, stucco, or EIFS strikes the best balance between environmental burden and lifecycle costs.

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What is Open Building?

FHB_WEB, member | April 20th, 2009

In the early 1990s that I bumped into a marvelous little book by the Dutch architect John Habraken titled Supports. He argued passionately that the process of making housing must preserve the “natural relationship” that humans need to have with the place where they live. . .

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Help Build an Article on Remodeling

Cermides, associate editor | April 3rd, 20091 comment

I’m working on an article about framing interior walls. I plan to make it specific to remodeling, but other than that, I don’t have a particular focus yet. But I need your help. nbspIf...

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