Controlling room temperatures with body heat…

[caption id="attachment_102" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Credit: Courtesy Joon-Ho Choi"][/caption] While he was a university student, Joon-Ho Choi worked in a hospital, where he noticed that patients—especially those in intensive care—rarely have much control over their environments. “They are subjected to temperature and lighting conditions that are set...

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The strangest and most unusual homes for sale

[caption id="attachment_105" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rich Testa of RE/MAX Advance"][/caption] When Robert and Marguerite Antell told architect James Johnson they wanted to build a fun, artistic home, he handed the couple a coke bottle with a flowering sprig of Queen Anne’s lace. “This is your new home,”...

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The Green Schoolhouse

Throughout the United States, thousands of students are spending the majority of the day in unhealthy and aging portable classrooms. Not only is their presence required, students are expected to thrive and flourish educationally in such environments. “The aging infrastructure of K–12 schools throughout the...

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Proposals coming down the pike to save the housing industry

By Jonathan Sweet, Editor in Chief HousingZone.com September 1, 2011 As the unemployment rate stays stubbornly high and housing remains mired in recession, several proposals have come down the pike lately on how to jumpstart a recovery in both areas. Here’s a look at a few...

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Tired of builder beige? So is everyone else.

Inexpensive, easily adaptable, and striking, color is a powerful tool in the right hands. Too often it’s a casualty as home designs are reduced to the blandest common denominator; a strategic burst of color in small details or sculptural statements can lend vibrancy to your...

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HousingZone deals coming to the Residential Construction Industry

Chicago-based HousingZone and Bizy to launch first-ever, publisher-led business-to-business deals program, serving home builders, remodelers and contractors HousingZone, the leading online portal for home builders, remodelers and contractors, and Bizy LLC, operator of co-branded vertical industry deal sites and BizyDeal.com, today announced the launch of HousingZone...

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I’d love to buy, but I can’t sell my house syndrome…

“Plenty of consumers are shopping around for new homes, but they believe they can’t buy until they sell,” states Bob Schultz, President and CEO, Bob Schultz & The New Home Sales Specialists. He goes on to write that despite all the negative press, hype, and conversation...

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How A One Time Close Construction Loan Works

Unlike a mortgage loan, which finances an existing home, home construction loans are used to pay for both the construction of a home and the completed home.  One construction loan option is the one-time close construction loan, which lets you finance both the construction and...

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