Wood: Making High-Performance Homes Palatable

Strip away the marketing and a high-performance house is a machine: heat pumps, solar arrays, continuous air barriers, triple-glazed everything. Builders are getting remarkably good at making these houses perform. What they haven’t solved is making them feel like somewhere you’d want to live. That’s where wood comes in. A recent North Shore project makes […]

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