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The BLDGtyp Blog: September 2013
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Wisconsin "Almost Passive House" One Year On. South side of the cabin - seen from the woods. John and just got back to New York from a week out at the Wisconsin Cabin and it was AMAZING to see the house again. It weathered its first Wisconsin winter great (not that I ever doubted! South deck all finished up. South deck built-in benches with the lake in the background. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The BLDGtyp Blog: August 2012
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Sunday, August 19, 2012. Air Sealing: Step 03 - Poking Holes. Now that the whole house is nicely wrapped in our Intello air-barrier, we have to deal with all the funny spots where we need to (for one reason or another ) break through that barrier. That would mean things like windows and doors, electrical outlets, plumbing and ventilation lines and all the other things that move around inside of our walls. Our first step, ...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: October 2012
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Friday, October 26, 2012. North side on our last day in Wisconsin. East side with the bend. Kitchen looking north-west (towards the lake). Kitchen, looking south-east towards living space. Bedroom - all finished and ready for furniture. Sleeping loft, top of the stairs. In the north end of the loft, we built a half-height divider to carve out a 'sleeping nook' which will be semi-sheltered from the rest of the space. T...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: Making Of: Upstate NY House Rendering (Photoshop Part 01)
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Making Of: Upstate NY House Rendering (Photoshop Part 01). Here's the final rendering I'll be pulling apart:. 01 Base Render and Color Corrections:. Raw Render - just enough to work with and nothing more. As much as possible we of course like to work with Photoshop Adjustment Layers. To reduce saturation and adjust brightness), A Levels. Darken to get ready for the Lights later. Was pretty much...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: Easy Visualizations of PHPP Energy Performance With A Sketchup Ruby Script
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Saturday, March 22, 2014. Easy Visualizations of PHPP Energy Performance With A Sketchup Ruby Script. Cooling-Period Losses and Gains (kWh). This, of course, will probably all be entirely obsolete as soon as they release the PHPP Sketchup tool DesignPH. Recently, out of necessity we built a pair of Ruby scripts which can take some of this mush of data and bring it into Sketchup. The image at the top of this post shows...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: June 2012
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Air Sealing: Step 01. Intello-Plus on the interior of our walls. This house is totally sealed on the interior and uses a Zender HRV (a Heat Recovery Ventilator) to move air into and out of the house. We used a similar Zehnder. In addition keeping the warm indoor air in - its super important NOT to let this humid indoor air come into contact with anything cold (like the exterior siding of the house)...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: July 2013
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Friday, July 26, 2013. New Upstate-NY Passive House in the Works. Typ we've been hard at work for the last few months on a beautiful new Passive House in Upstate NY. We've partnered with LEVENBETTS. For the project, with they supplying their considerable design and architectural expertise, and BLDG. Typ our Passive House. The incredibly beautiful site. Typ is going after full Passive House Certification(! Both buildings r...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: November 2013
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Making Of: Upstate NY House Rendering (Photoshop Part 01). Here's the final rendering I'll be pulling apart:. 01 Base Render and Color Corrections:. Raw Render - just enough to work with and nothing more. As much as possible we of course like to work with Photoshop Adjustment Layers. To reduce saturation and adjust brightness), A Levels. Darken to get ready for the Lights later. Was pretty much...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: BLDGtyp does Solar D 2013
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Tuesday, October 8, 2013. BLDGtyp does Solar D 2013. DOE Solar Decathlon 2013. Morning Day 2. Typ recently had the privilege of traveling to sunny Irvine CA to assist the Stevens Institute of Technology. Team with the installation of their 2013 entry into the U.S. Department of Energy Solar 2013 Decathlon. Oh - all these great photos were taken by Stevens crew, Esp. Zak - nice work.). Yours truly setting one of the large ...
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The BLDGtyp Blog: March 2014
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Following the BLDGtyp crew and our continued adventures in design and construction. Saturday, March 22, 2014. Easy Visualizations of PHPP Energy Performance With A Sketchup Ruby Script. Cooling-Period Losses and Gains (kWh). This, of course, will probably all be entirely obsolete as soon as they release the PHPP Sketchup tool DesignPH. Recently, out of necessity we built a pair of Ruby scripts which can take some of this mush of data and bring it into Sketchup. The image at the top of this post shows...
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