The Ever Changing Home: Updating Your House with an Eye to Tomorrow The Ever Changing Home: Updating Your House with an Eye to Tomorrow First we upsize and then we downsize. Renovations are often undertaken to suit a growing family, but those needs change before we know it... Read more about The Ever Changing Home: Updating Your House with an Eye to Tomorrow
A Universal Home: Safety & Accessibility for All A Universal Home: Safety & Accessibility for All Byggmeister client and occupational therapist, Emily DeGroat wants you to stay home. More accurately, she wants you to be able to live safely... Read more about A Universal Home: Safety & Accessibility for All
Six Ways to Think About Energy Improvements Six Ways to Think About Energy Improvements The marketplace is starting to expect greater accountability and more sophisticated analysis when it comes to the long-term energy performance of homes... Read more about Six Ways to Think About Energy Improvements
Warm Feet & Magical Thinking: Q&A with Plumber Chris Ernst Warm Feet & Magical Thinking: Q&A with Plumber Chris Ernst Pipelines owner Chris Ernst has 30 years in the plumbing business under her tool belt. A long-time Byggmeister subcontractor... Read more about Warm Feet & Magical Thinking: Q&A with Plumber Chris Ernst
Material Concerns: Choosing Eco-Friendly Products for Your Home Material Concerns: Choosing Eco-Friendly Products for Your Home From PVC to paint, air quality to energy efficiency, the Byggmeister team is passionate about helping people make informed decisions... Read more about Material Concerns: Choosing Eco-Friendly Products for Your Home
Evidence Based Building: It's All By Numbers Evidence Based Building: It's All By Numbers WegoWise may sound like the latest Hasbro toy, but this web-based energy tracking system is actually a powerful new addition... Read more about Evidence Based Building: It's All By Numbers
Thinking Big at Building Energy, Our Go-to Conference Thinking Big at Building Energy, Our Go-to Conference For three days every March several of us take off our tool belts, shut down our spreadsheets and head to the annual Building Energy Conference... Read more about Thinking Big at Building Energy, Our Go-to Conference
A Fresh Face on the Job: Q&A with Summer Intern Isaac Baker A Fresh Face on the Job: Q&A with Summer Intern Isaac Baker If you're renovating this summer, you may see a fresh face on the job. But if you go away for a few weeks, you may miss him. Isaac Baker is... Read more about A Fresh Face on the Job: Q&A with Summer Intern Isaac Baker
A Homeowner's Guide to Ventilation: Don't Leave Fresh Air to Chance A Homeowner's Guide to Ventilation: Don't Leave Fresh Air to Chance The potential consequences of not thinking about your home's ventilation—or of just leaving it to chance—are either that you're over-ventilating... Read more about A Homeowner's Guide to Ventilation: Don't Leave Fresh Air to Chance
The New Buzz Word: Mold The New Buzz Word: Mold Mold risks are directly proportional to the amount of mold in a house. All houses will have some mold spores in the air... Read more about The New Buzz Word: Mold
