A podcast that explains scientific concepts to regular carpenters like us. Engineers explain the concept in detail, and ProTradeCraft breaks it down into bite-sized nuggets to make info snacking easier.

Heat goes from more to less. Any questions?

The Tyvek weather-resistive barrier can be a water barrier and an air barrier, but it is NOT a vapor barrier

Barriers, air gaps, continuous insulation, and redundancy give durability to a new crawlspace

An overview of the premiere season of this new construction show. We'll follow MARK IV Builders as they demonstrate smart building envelope practices.

Three shelf bracket joinery methods yield mostly no surprises—except how strong the second and third-place joints are

A mostly-robotic factory builds tight, healthy homes with hardly any waste

A look back at a resilient renovation to a 100-year old house

Flood-resistant construction is a critical piece of resilient design and construction

Trees and shrubs are fuel, but now neighbors are a greater risk

Wildfire is a growing threat to buildings all over North America; the main solution is recognizing the problem and looking to solve it

Five steps to take before putting solar panels on the roof

Season 2 is back in Minneapolis for a large-scale retrofit of a 111-year-old house: Tightening up the envelope, adding durability to the shell, and dramatically improving the interior conditioning and IAQ

Replacing the siding is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to upgrade the energy performance of a home

Construction details, jobsite construction videos, and audio explanations of the challenge our housing stock faces and solutions to dig out of the hole.

There are new words and numbers in the energy code, like "tested for tightness," R-60, and 20+5

"It's not a matter of if, it's WHEN" —Ben Nicholls, Division chief, CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit