Often times when homeowners want to cut energy costs they turn to new light bulbs, more efficient appliances or sealing up old windows. While these solutions make a difference, in most cases the real problem lies deep within the home in the duct system. 50 percent of the average home and commercial building’s energy bill is spent […]
For many, it’s been all too easy to write off video-gamers as wasting their time. How could the successful retrieval of the Sword of a Thousand Truths land a guy a job? Why would countless hours of Diablo II make for a promising new hire? Yet hand-eye coordination skills stand to benefit from gaming in […]
This March, Associated General Contractors of America (AGCA) announced plans to release a new domain specific to the construction industry: .Build. Touted as a new top-level domain name, .Build has been available to the public for pre-registration since late April. For $99 per year, building industry websites can convert to .Build. The release comes […]
Since filing for bankruptcy last July, Detroit has struggled to ameliorate its housing crisis. A grand total of more than $18 billion of debt made Detroit’s default the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history. This financial failure, compounded by the mortgage mess, has left thousands of homes vacant. Currently, the city owns 16,000 […]
Report cards are no longer just for students, a new program is holding builders to higher standards as well. The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) is the first green building rating program in the U.S. to target schools in the K-12 range and progressively more states are adopting the new program. According to CHPS, there […]
