Green Building Solutions Meets National Radio Show The Money Pit!
The Money Pit – a nationally syndicated home improvement radio show – celebrated National Energy Awareness Month recently. The goal was to highlight ways to help consumers save energy with green building designs and materials. Building insulation expert Kelly Frauenkron, from BASF, is a building insulation expert. She visited with Money Pit hosts Leslie Segrete and Tom Kraeutler. Kelly’s main message was this: plastic insulation’s energy savings are good for the environment… and your wallet.
Air infiltration can really add to energy bills. Gaps and cracks not only leak air but let pollutants in and can dramatically affect home heating and cooling costs by reducing energy efficiency. When heated or cooled air leaks to the outside, your heater or A/C spends more energy to heat or cool (read: higher utility bills). Not very green. But plastic sealants and insulation help stop air leakage and improve energy efficiency, which means lower energy bills. Solutions for homeowners range from DIY jobs(using a can of insulating foam sealant) around windows and doors to PROFESSIONAL installations (spray polyurethane foam plastic insulation). Both applications act as air barriers, helping prevent air leakage and reducing wasted energy. And using less energy is good for the environment. Kelly explains it all in the green building resources interview.
Recognizing how buildings and building products enhance energy efficiency throughout their lifetime is part of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – a topic we’ll be talking a lot about in future posts. LCA measures the impact on the environment during a product’s creation, transportation, assembly, use and end-of-life. LCA methods are ISO certifiable and will be deliberated by the International Code Council for inclusion in the new International green Construction Code (IgCC) in 2014. Thanks, Kelly Frauenkron, for the great interview! Hear the full five minute interview now.
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The Money Pit – a nationally syndicated home improvement radio show – celebrated National Energy Awareness Month recently. The goal was to highlight ways to help consumers save energy with green building designs and materials. Building insulation expert Kelly Frauenkron, from BASF, is a building insulation expert. She visited with Money Pit hosts Leslie Segrete and Tom Kraeutler. Kelly’s main message was this: plastic insulation’s energy savings are good for the environment… and your wallet.
Air infiltration can really add to energy bills. Gaps and cracks not only leak air but let pollutants in and can dramatically affect home heating and cooling costs by reducing energy efficiency. When heated or cooled air leaks to the outside, your heater or A/C spends more energy to heat or cool (read: higher utility bills). Not very green. But plastic sealants and insulation help stop air leakage and improve energy efficiency, which means lower energy bills. Solutions for homeowners range from DIY jobs(using a can of insulating foam sealant) around windows and doors to PROFESSIONAL installations (spray polyurethane foam plastic insulation). Both applications act as air barriers, helping prevent air leakage and reducing wasted energy. And using less energy is good for the environment. Kelly explains it all in the green building resources interview.
Recognizing how buildings and building products enhance energy efficiency throughout their lifetime is part of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – a topic we’ll be talking a lot about in future posts. LCA measures the impact on the environment during a product’s creation, transportation, assembly, use and end-of-life. LCA methods are ISO certifiable and will be deliberated by the International Code Council for inclusion in the new International green Construction Code (IgCC) in 2014. Thanks, Kelly Frauenkron, for the great interview! Hear the full five minute interview now.
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The Money Pit – a nationally syndicated home improvement radio show – celebrated National Energy Awareness Month recently. The goal was to highlight ways to help consumers save energy with green building designs and materials. Building insulation expert Kelly Frauenkron, from BASF, is a building insulation expert. She visited with Money Pit hosts Leslie Segrete and Tom Kraeutler. Kelly’s main message was this: plastic insulation’s energy savings are good for the environment… and your wallet.
Air infiltration can really add to energy bills. Gaps and cracks not only leak air but let pollutants in and can dramatically affect home heating and cooling costs by reducing energy efficiency. When heated or cooled air leaks to the outside, your heater or A/C spends more energy to heat or cool (read: higher utility bills). Not very green. But plastic sealants and insulation help stop air leakage and improve energy efficiency, which means lower energy bills. Solutions for homeowners range from DIY jobs(using a can of insulating foam sealant) around windows and doors to PROFESSIONAL installations (spray polyurethane foam plastic insulation). Both applications act as air barriers, helping prevent air leakage and reducing wasted energy. And using less energy is good for the environment. Kelly explains it all in the green building resources interview.
Recognizing how buildings and building products enhance energy efficiency throughout their lifetime is part of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – a topic we’ll be talking a lot about in future posts. LCA measures the impact on the environment during a product’s creation, transportation, assembly, use and end-of-life. LCA methods are ISO certifiable and will be deliberated by the International Code Council for inclusion in the new International green Construction Code (IgCC) in 2014. Thanks, Kelly Frauenkron, for the great interview! Hear the full five minute interview now.
