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I'm planning to build my house in zone 4a, right on the boarder of zone 3a.  The front of the house faces NNE, and the house will be in a…

I'm just playing around with a couple ideas here. I'm not a builder or engineer. Attached design is for a Zone 6, high-performance, two-story house my parents might build on their…

A new home project with a crowded ceiling in a full bathroom.  The question is where to locate the exhaust fan system, and while the ceiling is crowded, the floor…

seek advice on snow melt systems on metal roof Climate zone 7

Location: Weld Hill Lecture Hall, 1300 Centre St., Boston & YouTube Livestream

"Understanding and Harnessing the Diversity of Plant Metabolism" with Ryan Nett, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.... Read more about Arnold Arboretum Research Talk

Location: Zoom & Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

Join Harvard SEAS for a presentation by Rice University's Haotian Wang.... Read more about Electrochemical Approaches to Decarbonizing Fuels and Chemicals

Location: Zoom & Room 414AB, Rubenstein Building, 1 Eliot St., Cambridge

David Turk, Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy, will present "Powering the Clean Energy Future."... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar

Location: David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab (414AB), Rubenstein Building, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge & Zoom

"Powering the Clean Energy Future" with David Turk, Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy.... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar

Location: Huguette and Michel Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

The Weatherhead Center's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations presents Takatoshi Ito, Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds; Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School; Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.... Read more about Challenges Facing the Japanese Economy: Demography, Debts, Deglobalization, and Decarbonization

Good Morning,Just wanted to share a roof detail idea I had in thinking about above roof insulation to a second story addition. I've attached the initial post it sketch I…

Hi,I'm planning a workshop/garage in zone 6. It will be fully conditioned. I will be doing most of the building. The wall will be resting on some variety of shallow…

I asked this question over on Fine Homebuilding but thought it would be a good place to ask here too. I am looking for a wall assembly for an addition…

I live in Houston and have an unfinished little house in my backyard. This little house has always been studded interior only but brick veneer with a metal roof. For…

Just moved into our renovated house. We've been living here for about a week.The weekend of the move the kids (4 and 6) had fevers, coughs, etc... at the rental…

Adding a layer of exterior insulation looks likely, but the question is how much?

Hi All,I am finishing a basement in a new-to-us home in Minnesota, there was some previous work already completed that I am working around and I am seeking some advise…

Hi,Doing a gut remodel with dense pack double stud walls in CT. Thinking of using Matthews Brothers windows (triple pane U19-). Is there someone that can speak about these windows?…

This video, entitled “There is No Such Thing as a Free Thermodynamic Lunch” by forensic building scientist Dr. Joe Lstiburek (the “L” is silent) for the Green Home Institute’s Youtube…

Hi. I’m trying to figure out what is going on here. Any thoughts would be valued as I don’t have any experience to go on. There was a bad wind…

I appreciate all of the thoughts that folks have put into the Q&A elsewhere on the site. A few questions that have come up as I've poked around:1. What's the…