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022: Residential Construction Costs

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Hard Costs vs. Soft Costs [3:10 mark] When starting to plan for a construction budget, there are some items that you should plan on including in your budget, which fall into major categories of hard costs and soft costs. Texas is also a right-to-work state and we don’t face some of the typical cost issues that unionized states enjoy.

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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Almost any article you read regarding energy-efficient construction, how tight the house is to air leakage is a huge consideration in the final thermal performance. vs. R value of 18.15). But that’s a different discussion for a different article. Trevor Cool article Bob, thanks! R value of 27.48

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

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Architecture Articles, Architectural Developments, Global Design Project News, New Property Posts Architecture Articles: Building Designs Building Debate – Architectural Information + International Construction Projects Architecture Articles Information : Building Links Architectural Projects + Key New Property Designs, alphabetical: Building (..)