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Guides and Questionnaires on planning and building your kennel
You love dogs, and you know there is a need in your community for dog boarding, but you don’t know where to start. In this blog, I will go over both design principles and the authorities/permits needed to get started. Starting any project...
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The main feature of the existing Brantwood Farm Bakery is preprepared pies and donuts! Working with Legge Design, we are reusing equipment to save on costs and building a much more functional and larger space!
We interviewed Scott Legge from Legge Foodservice Facilities Design to discuss important co...
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In this video, I show you practically how the triple pane windows are performing in my "pretty good house" (near passive). Using simple visual (but perhaps not completely accurate) tools, I can not only tell you numbers but show you some of the differences.
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What are the details and considerations that make a passive house or high-performance house different than a typical building?
In our previous article, What is the Passive House building standard, we introduce you to the program and outline how it differs from building codes and other programs. In th...
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