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The Build Review knowledge base contains educational and informative posts from leading international industry authors.

prefabricated house
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I Didn’t Know A Prefabricated House Could Do This!

One of the benefits of a factory built home is that the insulated wall panels are assembled in a climate controlled facility. However, they still need to get assembled on site … and that’s when mother nature can take her revenge. My factory built house started getting raised on site at the beginning of January and the New England weather didn’t want to cooperate … which got me a little worried about water soaking the insulation inside the wall panels.
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
06/15/2023
What's the best way to design and build with Mass Timber?
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What is Mass Timber’s SWEET SPOT?

Is there a building size, height, number of stories, or occupancy in which mass timber works the best? In this video, I take a look at optimizing mass timber for a variety of projects, but rather than looking at this from a size and scale perspective, the focus is on structural material replacements for other systems in which mass timber works well - particularly post and beam framing.
Mass Timber How To's with Ricky McLain
06/14/2023
Building Insulation. The importance of using insulation correctly.
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Asthma New Zealand Healthy Homes Series – Episode 2 – Insulation

Today, in collaboration with Asthma New Zealand, we are releasing Episode 2 of the Healthy Homes series on The Build Review. This episode focuses on the crucial role of insulation in our homes and the consequences of poor installation or no insulation. Yes, still many homes in New Zealand have no insulation in their walls, under their floors, and roof spaces.
Asthma New Zealand
06/06/2023