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Homebuyers Shift Focus From Lowest Upfront Cost to Long-Term Value Builders are noticing a shift: Homebuyers are willing to spend more upfront on sustainable upgrades to cut costs later.

Builders are noticing a shift: #Homebuyers are willing to spend more upfront on sustainable upgrades to cut costs later. 

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Financing a Resilient Built Environment: Solutions for Infrastructure, Housing and Informal Settlements With a warming planet putting billions of lives and livelihoods at risk, government officials and experts on policy and technical solutions urged scaling up finance to build resilient housing and achi...

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Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of @un-habitat.bsky.social, emphasized that “housing is the foundation of #climate resilience,” but achieving resilience requires access to climate finance

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Heat Efficiency Pumps: Rewriting the Story Data shows that a heat pump adds value to a home and offers homeowners more independence and resilience.

Data shows that a heat pump adds value to a home and offers homeowners more independence and resilience.

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Shifts in Housing Size Smaller floorplans cost less to build, use fewer resources, and run on a lot less energy over the span of decades. Will people buy them? 

Smaller floorplans cost less to build, use fewer resources, and run on a lot less energy over the span of decades. Will people buy them? 

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In an era of extremes, resilience is becoming the new standard in home design.

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Frontlines of Climate Action: Building for the Storm Pearl Homes is ditching excuses and designing homes that stand up to climate extremes—and stand out in the market.

Pearl Homes is ditching excuses and designing homes that stand up to climate extremes—and stand out in the market.

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Tornadoes, Tariffs and ICFs At the intersection of the climate crisis and lumber inflation, ICF homes have never looked better.

At the intersection of the climate crisis and lumber inflation, ICF homes have never looked better.

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The Floods are Coming. What’s Your Best Prep? This summer could see even worse flood events than 2024. You have three options for preparing your house, none of them easy.

This summer could see even worse flood events than 2024. You have three options for preparing your house, none of them easy.

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The intent of this article is to show how the new “more perfect wall” concept can be applied with a simple three-step process to optimize enclosure decisions, using Florida as an example.

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As climate impacts grow more intense and unpredictable, the built environment must evolve. The Sustainability Symposium 2025 will delve deep into ideas and approaches that enhance resiliency.

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California’s insurance market is buckling under wildfire risk, so how about we build homes that don’t freak out at the sight of a pinecone? Fire-resistant, energy-efficient, and a middle finger to rising premiums.
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Hunters Point, an 86-home community in the commercial fishing village of Cortez, Florida, went relatively unscathed during Hurricanes Helene and Milton thanks to environmentally resilient construction.

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Specifying the best home armor to handle the changing climate has become more critical than ever.

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Free Webinar! Take a deep dive into the culture and actions needed to build a highly successful community ready for the worst mother nature had to throw at it.

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Design is at the forefront of resilient building. Here’s how it is helping drive safer housing solutions. #ResilientHousing

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No Hurricane Straps? No Worries. Older homes often lack the requisite metal tie downs to keep roofs on during a hurricane. Adding them in retrofit is more affordable than you think.

Upgrading the wind mitigation for a 2,000 sf home in FL can typically be done for $1,500 or less, accomplished in a day or 2. But it can save up to $3,000/year, every year, that’s a very reasonable 6 month ROI.

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