While home ownership remains an important goal for many, the ongoing operational cost of living in that home can be a real eye opener. Beyond the expected mortgage payments and property taxes, new homeowners are often shocked by the high energy bills for heating and…
Does your relationship with your electrical utility seem grounded in 1995? Anemic websites, cryptic data access, and paper bills can become a relic of the past with leading-edge utilities, where they are using a Google Home Hub and voice activation skills to enable frictionless access…
As technology marches forward, the materials we use for constructing our homes continually evolves. In many cases, building products manufacturers are developing hybrid, synthetic, and metallic materials designed to supplant conventional wood, which can bring higher durability, contribute to sustainability, or add architectural interest. That's…
In our editorial mission to articulate goings-on in the realm of connected homes, we often include the Internet of Things (IoT) as merely one of many tech-related SEO tags we attach to our original content. Yet IoT is clearly much, much broader than the connected…
From: Kleber & Associates Can our homes become too smart? In this curated post from building materials marketing and public relations firm Kleber and Associates, they discuss how artificial intelligence, automation, and robots are becoming much more commonplace in our lives, our homes, and seemingly everywhere else.…
Part 7 in our curated series on the state of green financing and green building. From: Green Energy Money In this seventh post on green financing and green building, we connect again with our Austin, Texas-based colleagues at Green Energy Money (GEM), one of the best…
Part 6 in our curated series on the state of green financing and high-performance building. From: Native and Green Energy Money Are you carefully considering the build or purchase of a green, sustainable, high-performance home? If so, you are probably already talking to potential architects, builders,…
Part 5 in our curated series on the state of green financing and high-performance building. From: Green Energy Money In this segment of our continuing series on the state of green financing, our colleagues at Green Energy Money (GEM) posit an alternative course of action to the often-polarized…
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