Addressing Embodied Carbon in Residential Construction

I attended 2020 International Builders Show in Las Vegas, frustrated in a wish to have a message for those coming to the Fakro booth, in what I do to make attic ladders safer with added features. I had little to report in this blog. 

At the Hanley Wood Media Builder magazine booth I watched a Shawood Demonstration twice.

Here is the complete Builder booth sessions calendar handed out to show goers. 

The IBS exhibit was continuation of that seen at CES 2020, and summarized in this pdf.
New to the US: A Home Resilient to Natural Disasters  

Glimpse the technology at this Shawood web site:
Sustainable Construction Technology - Shawood Homes 

In fact, from this Shawood web site, you will understand most of what was seen in January 2020 Las Vegas Convention Center events. Imagine how quickly a home can be assembled with engineered factory-built beam elements. Exterior walls have full freedom of window and door placement. 

Know from the IBS presentation, that superior Bellburn porcelain tile siding is a very-visible element of this construction. Sample siding was on display. From the search, find this builderonline article:
Chowa Living in Balance - February 26, 2020  
LESSONS LEARNED: HERE ARE FIVE CRITICAL TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE 2020 BUILDER CONCEPT HOME BUILDING 


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Surely there is much in the sixty-year old developing technology of Sekisui House that is central to the hope of the ASHRAE webinar, Addressing Embodied Carbon.

I hope to make this information detectable in a Google search:

fireproof exterior siding in new home construction

Inspiring Young People to Become Carpenters: Just Learn How to Install a Prefit Door!

At 2020 International Builders Show I was educated by the team of Rick Arnold and Gary Katz, presenting  Problem-free Prefit Doors, as the Katz Roadshow . The half-hour-long demonstration was a rerun for me, and yet I know I need much practice to overcome wrong intuition applied in the only-three doors I have installed so far.

 At wrap-up, we were offered pencils labeled with a URL, thus:

We were told: Go to the URL on this pencil, where you will see preserved to be viewed for free, all the good information you have learned here. Pass the pencil on to some young person who might win a carpentry job, just by knowing, really knowing, how to hang a prefit door. And I immediately did that, giving my pencil to a young person next to me on the city bus to my hotel that evening.  I picked up two replacement pencils the next day.

Only now, six weeks later, I have tested whether the URL by itself might give the intended inspiration. Go there , and see.

Recall that "prefit door" is the subject and enter that in the search bar. Then read the full article,  (Click this caption.)

Problem-free Prefit Doors

It is photo and text instruction, a bit like my blog, not the video I imagined. At bottom is this link to the promised video instruction:

A bit of education may open doors of opportunity.