We have officially finished our traveling!
But wait!
Our posting will continue until we’re clean out of footage, so keep watching because we have about 30+ episodes to come!
Thanks to everyone who let us sleep on their floor, stick a camera in their face or otherwise made this trip possible.
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Kelly Lerner is an architect in Spokane, Washington who works with strawbale construction. She also wrote a book about green remodeling!
Here are some terms highlighted in the video:
Strawbale Construction: a building method that uses straw bales as structural elements, insulation, or both.
Infill:an urban planning term referring to the redevelopment of an existing developement or an underutilized space within a developed area.
Rastra: an insulated concrete form
Hydronic Heating: also known as ‘radiant floor heating’
R-value: efficiency rating for building insulation
Net-Zero: net energy consumption of the building is zero
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