In our last Wacky (semi) Wordless Wednesday piece we had three pictures where we looked at entryway & asked what issues you see, what might you have done differently, or does everything look good to you? Well lets take a closer look at it… As I mentioned, I can easily see why the architect designed it this
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For many of us that have worked in the commercial arena we all know that sinking feeling when we see an OSHA officer just show up &/or you get a notice of an upcoming inspection. Well that sinking feeling is being felt by more & more residential builders as OSHA has now set its eyes
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This week I had the “pleasure” of attending one of the first “refresher” training courses for the RRP. Ah but wait, per the EPA one shouldn’t need to take a refresher course until 2015 (based on the extension given to those that completed training before April 22nd 2010). Well, welcome to the State of Alabama
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Wow what an interesting start to this New Year – if we didn’t have enough regular mandated changes slated for the start of this year, a few more managed to pop up quite quickly. With that here is a quick recap of some of new & some of the most major impacts that affect almost
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Can you believe that today marks 943 days since the RRP went into effect? It only took them 119 days to come up with enforcement guidelines, and over 531 days to actually bring their first enforcement action? Well last week, (937 days later) the EPA released the names & details of 16 more contractors that
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This is the 4th part of our series where we look at the differences between the 2003, 2006, & 2009 IRC’s. In this one we are focusing primarily on the various specialty trades. While we slanted this series towards Alabama’s new statewide code, one will quickly notice that they did very little tweaking, so if
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Yesterday we looked at the first four chapters of the 2009 IRC as it is part of Alabama’s new Building & Energy Code that goes into effect in less than a week. Today we are going to delve in the final “building” (Walls, Floors, Roofing & Finishes) sections of the code, in particular the biggest
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Recently we looked into the Energy Code portion of Alabama’s new Residential Energy & Building Code going into effect October 1st. While everyone’s focus has been on the “Energy” portion, not much has been stated about the building portion. For most of the southern portions of the state this part doesn’t affect them as they
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Yesterday, I attended the Alabama Energy Code Training program put on by the Home Builders Association of Alabama for two primary reasons; to see if there were any changes (this state is great at putting information out – not), and how the “code officials” & affected agencies were handling & interrupting it. This class was
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Just like any other scientific field, building science is constantly evolving as new information, testing, and materials are released. Unfortunately in some cases the amount &/or type of information provided is not only hard to understand, but can also be meaningless based on your house or area you live in. With that, welcome to our
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