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Greening Your Home 101 Consultation
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Thermal envelope design: design for your local climate, perhaps micro-climate. Energy efficiency!
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Healthy affordable super insulation systems.
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Air quality: how do I create a healthy home for my family especially my children? Ventilation, air exchange is it enough or too much.
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Window & Door Flashing details: Don't all builder's flash properly? Unfortunately they do not. Allowing water to penetrate behind synthetic stucco cost hundreds of millions.
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Orientation & proper site placement: is not just for passive solar efficiency. The easy way to provide a comfortable home is to position the home using the natural foliage, topography and utilizing the sun's arc in the day lighting design.
Solar Building Site Analysis:
Whether you are just starting to look for property, or you already own land but would like a professional site analyst call me, this can be a on site or sometimes via digital pictures & plot plan surveying information. Determine the exact amount of solar gain & the best direction for your home to be in.
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Soils
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Drainage
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Topography
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Build ability
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Sloped conditions
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Tree protection
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Best building site location
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Passive solar calculations