Wandered over to the eastside today to visit with Nicholas Koch. A trailblazer, Nicholas is building the first passivhaus in Texas (that...

ACH stands for Air Changes per Hour and is a measure of ventilation. A house with an ACH of 1.0 means that the amount of new air coming in...

The Austin Cool House Tour , hosted by the Texas Solar Energy Society and the Austin Energy Green Building Program, is coming up next week...

Previously, I posted about defining your finances . The second budget perspective you need to investigate is what you can build with your ...

The passivhaus movement started in Germany in the late 1980s with the goal of building hyper energy-efficient buildings. The thermal im...

A critical first step in building a house is building a budget. A budget helps you answer the question: What can I afford to build? You ne...

Nifty li ttle article about the growing trend of folks building green, including in Austin. For crying out loud, megabuilder KB Homes (alo...