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 Hurricane Season 2006 Issue
Midconstruction LaHouse Meets Katrina and Rita 
by Claudette Reichel
Louisiana House Resource Center, an educational demonstration house in Baton Rouge exhibiting four high-performance building systems, better known as LaHouse,was in midconstruction when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ripped through Louisiana. Although it was certainly not part of the plan, this pummeling turned out to have happened at an ideal stage of construction for two reasons. First, LaHouse became an ironically timely and greatly needed exhibition of hazard-resistant, energy-efficient homebuilding systems, while still fully exposed to view. Second, the framing and secondary moisture barriers were put through an excellent test.
Baton Rouge received the outer bands of...
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