Building & Remodeling
Connect to the outdoors with a sunroom
Sunrooms bring light to dark spaces, and can also help with your heating bill
A modular or system-built home is constructed inside a factory and delivered to the job site in sections. Learn how energy efficiency is built in these homes.
Building your home with advanced framing uses less wood and allow for more insulation.
Using universal design principals, your home can adapt to your changing lifestyle needs.
This system is designed specifically to make basement space comfortable and livable
When you're building a new house it's easy to forget about the energy efficient, but it is critical to the comfort and performance of the house.
Learn more about building your home to ENERGY STAR standards, how it is certified and the savings you can expect.
Air sealing, new equipment, insulation are all things to consider when it's time to remodel. Find out where to start.
Energy efficiency, renewable energy, green building all play a part in living a sustainable lifestyle.
Learn the benefits and advantages of this roofing material becoming more popular for Midwest applications
A dream house is a partnership between you and your builder. Learn the important things to look for and questions to ask when choosing an energy efficient builder.
Sunrooms bring light to dark spaces, and can also help with your heating bill
Beautiful, sustainable and with great thermal and acoustical insulating properties. See if cork flooring is right for your next project.
Attractive, energy-efficient flooring from sustainable sources
Check out a new concept in building construction that uses natural materials for new homes.
Building energy-efficiency into your new home
Take a tour of the systems including the insulation, heat recovery ventilator and more that make this house so energy efficient.
Green buildings and green building process team up for sustainability
With all the talk about building green, it's hard to know where to start. Check out the basics of green building.
Building supplies that are good for the earth and good for your family.
See a new home under construction using many green building techniques.
Have you every wondered how a house gets the ENERGY STAR label? We'll tag along on a HERS test to see what they are looking for.
Can an older home be restored economically and energy efficiently?
Save energy, and increase security around your home with a motion detecting light fixture
Using insulated concrete forms when you build can increase the energy efficiency of your home for a lifetime.
Sometimes old ideas can be new again. Log homes can be an energy efficient option for building a new home.
Building energy-efficiency in to your new home helps control moisture inside and out.
See an alternative construction product, Greenkrete, used in a new home.
Learn about products that are available to help make your home greener, healthier and save you energy.
Learn some tips and techniques on making your existing home more sustainable and energy efficient.
Take a glimpse into the process of turning a century old barn into an energy-efficient home today.
A Trombe wall is a passive solar component which absorbs solar energy and releases it selectively towards the interior at night.
Upcoming Shows
See what's coming up on this week's edition of PowerHouse!
May 19/20
May 19/20
- Segment 1: Installing LEDs
- Segment 2: Building an energy smart house
- Segment 3: Buying an energy efficient home
- Segment 4: HERS rating
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