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02 Aug

Decoding Today’s Home Technology: It’s More than Google vs Amazon

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights
The field of home technology is exploding! For most, it is just plain overwhelming. Are you Team Amazon, Team Google or Team Apple? Doing your homework to figure out what devices to install in your home can be intimidating.
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10 May

Constructuring: The Future of Home Building?

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights
Custom homes are one-off creations. Home buyers, architects, and even traditional home builders have (incorrectly) thought that building homes using modular construction limited their design. That may have been the case 30 years ago. Today’s modern modular construction takes advantage of
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04 May

On the Path to a Zero Energy Home: What is Solar Tempering?

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights
You may have heard of a passive house design. Passive house (or, German: Passivhaus) comprises a set of design principles used to attain a quantifiable and rigorous level of energy efficiency within a specific quantifiable comfort level. It exploits the sun’s energy for heating
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21 Apr

Why Building Outside Can Cost More

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Build Modular, Industry Insights
Building Science is amazing. Most people never think about building and science in the same sentence. However, the breakthroughs in materials, processes, and tools continue every day. Think about breakthroughs in automotive technology. The
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07 Apr

Solar Tubes, and Skylights, and Dormers, Oh My!

  • By Ken Semler
  • In dormors, Industry Insights, skylights, solatubes
So, what do these three things have in common? While most would think not much, they actually do provide some similar benefits and at very different costs. The one thing they all do is
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31 Mar

How Does Roof Design Impact My Home’s Style?

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights
What’s in a Roof Style? You drive by homes every day. How many times do you actually notice their roofs? There is something called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (also known as The Frequency Illusion). It
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24 Mar

Will Fire Sprinklers Be Required in Your New Home?

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights
It All Started with Smoke Alarms. Prior to 1973, there was no requirement for smoke alarms in a home. Building codes change regularly and protecting the population from home fires was introduced in
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03 Mar

Do Millennials and Baby Boomers Want the Same Thing in a Home?

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights
What Happened? The times they have changed. In the early 1960’s only 20% of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 actually lived with their parents. Recent surveys now put that number
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10 Feb

How Can You Get a Modular Home to My Site?

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights, Modular Home Delivery
First, What Makes a Modular Home Modular? A modular home is basically a stick built home that is built offsite and then transported to the site in modules. When designing a modular home the
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03 Feb

Why Waiting to Build Means More Risk with Rising Interest Rates

  • By Ken Semler
  • In Industry Insights
The Period of Super-low Interest Rates May be Coming to an End Regardless of your political bent, things have changed. The Federal Reserve has managed the economy for the last eight years by holding
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