Systems-Built Homes: Many Options and Benefits
For decades, home building systems have provided home owners a wide variety of benefits and features over traditional stick-built homes. Manufacturers utilizing building systems specialize in many different styles of homes and materials. This white paper gives an overview of systems-built homes and the many options and benefits that they offer.Type: White Paper
Sponsor: Lindal Cedar Homes
Systems Built Homes Adapt to Needs of Today's Home in Style, Engineering and Efficiency
According to the Department of Energy, insulation is the number one recommended choice for energy efficiency savings. During the planning of a systems built home, engineers and local dealers work to determine the amount of insulation that provides the best R-value for a home in a specific geographic area.Type: White Paper
Sponsor: Lindal Cedar Homes
Precision Engineering, Breathtaking Beauty and Environmentally Conscious Homes
Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright said, “No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.” This...Type: White Paper
Sponsor: Lindal Cedar Homes
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Elizabeth’s Passive House will be assembled on an 8.7 acre lot adjacent to the 23 acre lot where her parent’s Post and Beam Passive Solar Home sits.See More »