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		<title>Passive House, Green Building Technology: Not practical or cost effective for building affordable housing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could probably blog every day, if I took the time, about sustainable building, energy efficient building techniques and something about the “Green Building” movement.  Unfortunately while I have done my best to keep up with it, I am inundated with the much the same information each day.  There is nothing revolutionary out there, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Income Housing Tax Credit Refinance Program Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;FHA AND FANNIE MAE ANNOUNCE GREEN REFINANCE PLUS TO PAY FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT UPGRADES IN AFFORDABLE APARTMENT BUILDINGS&#8221; Yesterday HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan introduced a program called “Green Refinance Plus”  targeting the refinancing of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Projects.  This program&#8217;s focus is on energy conservation renovation, a major operational expense, for building owners and/or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Factor: Zero Energy Buildings(ZEB) and Common Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A blog on Building Green.com regarding people and the creation of Zero Energy Buildings(ZEB) really started me thinking about some personal experience, our results and how to apply some Common Sense to what we learned. &#160; About 3  years ago we completed a 3 Bedroom Modular Home certified to Energy Star–EarthCraft House Virginia Standards for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duany Predicts Decline of LEED Standard.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March/April: 2011, Sustainable Communities, “Duany Predicts Decline of LEED Standards.” www.p4sc.org “Decrying the high cost of “optimization” of development in a lean time” Andres Duany, principal in the visionary firm of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company(DPZ) and co-founder of the Congress for New Urbanism, “called for a return to commons sense development principals that harken back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Scientist Geeks stop speaking Geekese!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was part of a guided bus tour of Urban Infill, Affordable EarthCraft Virginia projects at the Virginia Governors Conference on Housing in Richmond, Virginia last week.  One of the tour guides, a young man who I have a great deal of respect for, stated in explaining the EarthCraft philosophy, “That we(EarthCraft) are all Building [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziaenergyonline.com/building-scientist-geeks-stop-speaking-geekese/</link>
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		<title>HVAC Renovation Duct Leakage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Duct Leakage Concerns: The following is a revision based on an actual report concerning duct leakage in a multi-family Low Income Housing Tax Credit Renovation being done to EarthCraft Virginia Standards: One of the areas of most concern is the return grill area being installed when the Air Handler is put in place.  At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manual J sizing for Single Family/Multi-Family HVAC Installations!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years I have reviewed literally 100&#8242;s of Manual J calculations.  For those not familiar with a Manual J calculation&#8211;in common sense terms&#8211;it is a program used to size the equipment used in the installation of the HVAC system for a particular home, townhouse, condominium or apartment.  Every credible HVAC contractor should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the advantages for a commercial building owner to consider a green approach?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a reply to a discussion started by Galouzi Makrem of the &#8220;Building Green-Sustainability Group&#8221; on Linked in. &#8220;Lets shelve the word Green. Let&#8217;s use a real world term&#8211;&#8221;Sustainable.&#8221; Any commercial building owner, meaning the building is theirs, lock, stock and barrel, has to look at their investment simply as initial cost, operational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HUD&#8211;Head up Rectum when it comes to HVAC Common Sense!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the past week I had the opportunity to test a multi-family renovation for seniors.  The property was a HUD project being renovated in order to keep it in the HUD fold of an affordable designation.  I don&#8217;t understand the financing or how it was being handled, but HUD money is certainly involved.  The project [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziaenergyonline.com/hud-head-up-rectum-when-it-comes-to-hvac-common-sense/</link>
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		<title>Where are we going with this Green, Sustainable, Energy Efficient, Healthy Building Movement?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where are we going with this Green, Sustainable, Energy Efficient, Healthy Building Movement? I kind of lost some interest in blogging and tweeting the past few weeks.  Main reason is I periodically get overwhelmed by the amount of daily information I am inundated with regarding Green Building. I have to constantly ask myself, “What are [...]]]></description>
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