Sentences with phrase «build conventional houses»

«People don't build conventional houses because they're interested in longevity or efficiency,» she says.

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At the same time, house builders say they can not build more than 150,000 homes per year via conventional means.

Furthermore, to build greater awareness of the Clarity Fuel Cell and hydrogen dispensers, a dedicated: 30 spot will be displayed on video screens above conventional gasoline fuel pumps at select gas stations in Los Angeles that also house hydrogen fuel pumps.

If I obtain a 10 year land loan and but finance the build of a house with my own money will I be able to refinance that land loan into a conventional 30 year mortgage loan eventually?

Do you know of a lender (if major bank, can you give a specific branch) in the State of CA that recognizes that once its an «improvement» legally its the same as a stick built house (and they certainly give conventional loans to stick built homes older then 1976.

Our plan is to build up enough equity in the house to eventually get a conventional loan on our next home.

Having a new home built from scratch used to mean securing a short - term construction loan and then refinancing with a conventional loan once the house was built.

The Women House exhibition at NMWA recasts conventional ideas about the home through provocative photographs, videos, sculptures and room - like installations built with materials ranging from felt to rubber bands.

She would stubbornly pursue her own quiet «tentativeness» (as the poet and art critic John Ashbery once put it), just as she would soon marry a businessman, move out of bohemia, build a house overlooking the ocean near the Hamptons, raise a child and pursue a more conventional upper middle class lifestyle.

By building or buying a tiny house as a second home, we can have a place of refuge from our daily grind, without having to come up with the money (or taking out a big mortgage), and because a tiny house is, well, tiny, it can be outfitted and decorated much cheaper than a conventional home.

Even though Stadhouders had no building experience in the beginning, the end result is impressive: a small house that has distinct zones for sitting, cooking, working and rest, and feels and looks like any conventional home.

In rental housing the Developer usually pays most of the operating costs including energy for heating and cooling, so a big benefit of Passive House is that these are as much as 90 percent less than in conventional buildings.

Since then there has been a real explosion in back lane housing, and Bryn's company, LaneFab, is building back lane and conventional houses all over town.

And in Germany, passive houses cost only about 5 to 7 percent more to build than conventional houses.

We recently built a new house and had conventional fluorescent fixtures installed in two bedrooms and our home office.

Funding Provided through NY - Sun to Address Barriers to Solar for Low - to Moderate - Income Residents Living in Rental Housing, Multifamily Buildings and Other Properties Not Served by Conventional Solar

Passive House is a recognized international standard for a building's energy efficiency to reduce heating and cooling requirements by up to 90 percent and overall energy demand by up to 75 percent compared to conventional buildings, while also providing the most comfortable and healthy interior environment.

The Passive House Institute, together with the Passivhaus Austria network, GLOBAL 2000 as well as the campaign MOTHER EARTH, has built two different mini houses for the ice block competition, a mini Passive House and a conventional mini hHouse Institute, together with the Passivhaus Austria network, GLOBAL 2000 as well as the campaign MOTHER EARTH, has built two different mini houses for the ice block competition, a mini Passive House and a conventional mini hHouse and a conventional mini househouse.

These systems replace or augment a conventional water heater and must be connected to a house's or building's plumbing.

Daire estimates that the cost of opting for the passive house standard compared with the conventional build originally tendered for was just 6pc higher, which included the heavier insulation and thermal bridge detailing, airtightness work, the MVHR system and the passive house certification.

We're conventional house builders who specialize in extensions and loft conversions and much of what you write applies to conventional buildings, not just tiny houses.

By Dee Williams There's a lot of confusion out there among aspiring tiny house builders and buyers about whether they can work with conventional building codes to make their tiny house on wheels legal to live in full time.

When most folks use the term tiny house, they are often referring to a home built using conventional methods but on the scale of an RV travel trailer.

The cost of building a passive house would typically be greater than that of a conventional house — you wouldn't expect it to be otherwise.

Tiny house site, a lady with MCS (multiple chemical sensitivities) had a THOW built to her specs by a conventional builder.

I've built custom straw bale homes, conventional homes, and tiny houses and I have worked in both new construction and remodeling.

The Passive House standard, an internationally renowned approach to building that negates the need for conventional heating, has attracted considerable interest in Ireland recently as energy prices continue to rise.

Ventilation was a huge challenge for us, because when building a tiny house you have only two options for airflow: RV - style holes in the roof with flimsy plastic covers that become useless with the addition of snow, or a duct system with a fan typical of a conventional house.

Besides being built on wheels and having off - grid capabilities, a tiny house has much more in common with a conventional house than with a trailer or RV.

If you want to build a house yourself, study up, because in some ways, building a tiny house can be trickier than building a conventional home.

The Passive House Standard is characterised by very high energy savings compared with conventional new builds.

Green building is often more expensive than conventional building, but there is another price to pay in addition to construction costs; extra insulation and equipment can eat up floor area, and on narrow urban lots that can seriously affect house design.

Actually, building a house in America out of all local materials is not that hard; most of the materials that go into a conventional house are heavy, awkward and of low value like cement, lumber and vinyl.

When we first saw De Maria Design's Redondo Beach House, we took a pass - it just didn't look like «Seventy percent of the building is efficiently created / assembled in a controlled shop environment» when the pictures show empty boxes and conventional construction, insulated with «ceramic - based insulation [that] is the same as a product used on NASA's Space Shuttle.»

According to Scott Kennedy of Cornerstone, a Vancouver architecture firm Passive House makes a lot of economic sense; in multiple family building the ratio of surface area (the expensive part in Passive) is much smaller so the costs are only about four percent higher than conventional construction.

It is what happens when we look at building beyond the conventional norms - beyond stick framing and vinyl siding; beyond the real estate market; beyond housing simply as a means to make a buck.

In China, Broad builds high quality housing units in a fraction of the the time at a fraction of the cost of conventional housing.

Still today, this terraced house in Darmstadt (Germany) consumes about 90 percent less energy than conventional buildings.

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According to the Canadian Passive House Institute, the Passive House Standard is «the world's most ambitious and scientifically verified route to truly sustainable buildings, achieving 80 to 90 per cent energy savings over conventional construction.»

Fishman: We're going to continue to see conventional seniors housing built much the way apartments are built, but an important new trend can be summed up in a two - word quote from E.M. Forester: «only connect.»

Since its founding in 2006, Aspen Heights Partners has developed, acquired and managed more than 30 purpose - built student housing, conventional multifamily, and assisted living properties, with a robust pipeline of future projects in each of those focus segments.

At universities where purpose - built student housing is undersupplied, many students turn to conventional market - rate apartments.

On average, the contract rate on conventional mortgages used to purchase newly - built homes, remained a constant 4.03 percent in December, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

In September, interest rates on conventional mortgages used to purchase newly built homes increased for the fourth month in a row, according to data released today by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).