A New Way to Reduce Multifamily Air Leakage

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A New Way to Reduce Multifamily Air Leakage

While tight exterior envelopes have become standard for single-family homes, they have been slow to reach the multifamily sector. Multifamily buildings have many of the same leakage paths as houses, as well as additional paths ...

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A New Way to Reduce Multifamily Air Leakage

August 06, 2017

While tight exterior envelopes have become standard for single-family homes, they have been slow to reach the multifamily sector. Multifamily buildings have many of the same leakage paths as houses, as well as additional paths ... [continue reading]

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One Year Later: Ten Lessons from the Grissom Lane Net Zero Senior Apartments

October 16, 2016

Designed, built, and managed by Community Housing Partners (CHP), Grissom Lane Apartments in Blacksburg, Virginia, are affordable homes for seniors and the first EarthCraft Virginia Net Zero Certified homes in the state. As such, each ... [continue reading]

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What Aerosol Taught Us About Compartmentalization

Author: Sean Maxwell
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March 14, 2016

Every once in a while in my previous job at Steven Winter and Associates I got to work on something very cool with the real experts—folks like Mark Modera and Curtis Harrington at ... [continue reading]

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Favorite Multifamily Retrofits

April 28, 2015

Which retrofit is better: changing the boiler or changing the lighting? There are so many possibilities for multifamily buildings that choosing the "best" retrofit depends a lot on your definition. Are you after the most ... [continue reading]

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Investing in Multifamily Energy Upgrades

October 31, 2014

The Top Three Financial Benefits of Energy Efficiency for Multifamily Housing [continue reading]

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