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A green construction project, called VISION House Los Angeles, welcomed Palisadians, builders, media and earth-conscious Angelenos to a lot at the corner of Via De La Paz and Bestor Avenue Thursday. The Pacific Palisades community was invited to take a peek inside the walls of the soon-to-be green home and talk to the builders about [...]  It’s -5ºC outside and Reiner Hoyer’s new house is 26ºC inside. That’s too hot, but it’s not because the heat is cranked up too high. In fact, the heat isn’t on at all. The only thing overheating the place are the tools and lights used by tradespeople working on the final construction details before Hoyer [...] In Texas, SES Foam and Imperial Sugar Co. announced the introduction of SucraSeal, an environmentally friendly, open-cell, Class 1 sucrose-based spray foam, with a finished foam green content of 25%. SucraSeal is described as fire-resistant, passes the ACC 377 Appendix X test and does not require chemical barriers and coatings. SES developed SucraSeal in conjunction [...] Stek said Michael Gratton and another man from Peninsula Spray Foam were driving to a job shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday when they spotted the smoke. “We kicked in the door, smashed in the window and pulled him out,” Gratton said, noting he was headed to a job in Crystal Lake when he saw the [...] I am building a 600 sq foot cabin in US climate zone 5 with 2 by 6 wall construction. I have gotten a lot of great information from your web site and, as a result, the wall system from the outside in is 1.5 inches of XPS rigid foam insulation, housewrap, plywood. I am trying [...] |
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