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  Matthew Clapper

  

  US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F

  Electrek - Michelle Lewis

  Heating and cooling equipment multinational Johnson Controls has developed an air source heat pump prototype that can operate in temperatures below -20F (-29C) as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge. DOE launched this challenge because, according …

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  Matthew Clapper

  

  RenoFi wants to make it easier for homeowners to finance renovations

  businessofhome.com

  Back in 2016, Justin Goldman’s young family had just moved to a Philadelphia suburb, into a house that ticked most of the boxes: great neighborhood, …

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  Matthew Clapper

  

  Whatever Happened to the Starter Home?

  The New York Times - By Emily Badger

  As recently as the 1990s, when Jason Nageli started off, the home-building industry was still constructing what real-estate ads would brightly call the “starter home.” In the Denver area, he sold newly built two-story houses with three bedrooms in 1,400 square feet or less. The price: $99,000 to …

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  Matthew Clapper

  

  'Don't Be a Donkey': The Best Leadership Advice From the Last 120 Years

  Inc Magazine - Nick Hobson

  In the fields of local expertise, there's a case for free-range leaders. "I'm NOT a donkey, and I don't have a field," goes the witty comeback from German political economist, Max Weber, after a faculty criticized him for publishing outside his discipline. More than a century later Weber's decry of …

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  Matthew Clapper

  

  2022 Young Architect Award Names 3 Outstanding Wisconsin Architects

  aia.org - By AIA Wisconsin

  The AIA Wisconsin Young Architect Award was established in 2020 to honor individuals who, in the early stage of their professional career, have …

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  Matthew Clapper

  

  Understanding the U.S. Housing Crisis in an Era of Inflation

  Bloomberg CityLab - Kriston Capps

  By this point, the severity of the U.S. housing crisis is not in question: It’s a five-alarm fire marked by record home prices, spiking rents, …