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A High-Performance Spec House Online Membership Required

A team approach creates an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly house for a growing market by Christopher Briley

A House for the End of Cheap OilOnline Membership Required

Healthful, light-filled, and energy-efficient, this home reaches back to its California past and toward a sustainable futureby David Arkin

Editors PickBuilt Wrong from the StartOnline Membership Required

Top 10 blunders that rot your house, waste your money, and make you sickby Joseph Lstiburek

Energy Efficient From the Ground Up

One builder's plan yields Vermont's most energy-efficient houseby Al Rossetto

Hydronic Radiant-Floor HeatingOnline Membership Required

Concrete slabs, thin slabs and metal plates offer different ways of routing radiant heat underneath every floor in the homeby John Siegenthaler

Q & A: Detailing a thin radiant slabOnline Membership Required

by Michael Luttrell

Q & A: Finding lightweight concreteOnline Membership Required

by Rich Ziegner

Installing Hardwood Floors over Radiant SlabsOnline Membership Required

It can be done successfully if your floor isn't too hot, and the wood is put down dry on a dry slab and subfloorby Don Bollinger

Building a Tiled Masonry HeaterOnline Membership Required

Hot combustion, heat-exchange channels and six tons of brick for energy efficiency and a clean burnby Vladimir Popovac

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