Posts From December, 2022

2024 Building Excellence Award Winners

The 2024 Building Excellence Awards were presented at the High Performance Home Builder Summit in Salt Lake City, an awards banquet that truly showcased the unwavering dedication, innovation, and sheer talent driving the construction industry forward. This awards banquet is a testament to the remarkable projects, brilliant minds, and tireless efforts that have shaped our built environment over the past year. We are thrilled to congratulate this year's winners, whose work not only sets new standards in building science, sustainability, and energy efficiency but also exemplifies excellence in high-performance home construction. Their achievements are helping to shape a more sustainable and resilient future for all of us. Volunteer Award: Theresa Gilbride Congratulations to Theresa Gilbride, a building energy efficiency researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The EEBA Volunteer Award recognizes Theresa who selflessly gave her time, energy, and skills to make a ... read more
 

Learn how to combat today’s design & build challenges with a high-performance building envelope

Register for free live Webinar on Dec 8th! (1 AIA HSW/LU)
Learn how to combat today’s design & build challenges with a high-performance building envelope
For decades, the perfect storm of challenges has been brewing throughout the construction industry, and this storm is now forcing all of us to consider how we design and build to best address today’s challenges. The storm includes a combination of construction material quality, cost instability, skilled labor shortages, increasing energy and building code requirements, the need for more resilient structures, rising utility costs, and a demand for healthy environments all combining at once in a market full of uncertainty. Builders, architects, engineers, and building owners must address these challenges – all while working to balance construction schedules, budgets, design flexibility, and occupant comfort. The good news is there is a solution that tackles each of these challenges – and also helps you create stronger and more energy efficient buildings. Register to join a complimentary live webinar on December 8th (10:30a PST/11:30a MT) to... read more