BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE

• adobe
• advanced house framing techniques
• aggregate
• airlock entry
• airtight drywall approach
• alcove
• apron
• arcology
• atrium
• attic
• audit (energy)



• backfill
• balcony
• balusters
• balustrade
• bamboo flooring
• bargeboard
• baseboard
• basement
• batten
• beam
• bearing wall
• brace
• braced framing
• brick
• building envelope



• cantilever
• casing
• cathedral ceiling
• cellular porous ceramic
• cement
• chase
• clerestory
• cloister
• concrete
• crawlspace



• dry rot



• embodied energy
• embodied performance (of a building)



• flashing
• floor beam
• floor space/area
• flywheel effect
• footing
• foundation types



• geodesic dome
• green building
• green roof
• gusset plate



• LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
• LiTraCon (ligt transmitting concrete)
• log home
• log home air leakage and thermal imaging



• masonry
• monolithic
• mortar



• occupied space
• overhang



• passive building design
• passive solar design
• plenum
• plywood



• rammed earth
• recycled-content shingles
• roof coatings
• roofing
• roofing, asphalt
• roofing, concrete and tile
• roofing, metal
• roofing, recycled content
• roofing, single-ply
• roofing, wood shake
• runoff



• sheathing
• soffit
• solar shingles
• space frame
• standard assessment procedure (SAP)
• straw bale home
• strawboard panel
• structural plate



• temperature zones
• terra cotta
• thermal envelope house
• thermal mass
• thermography
• tile
• trellis



• wall
• wall orientation
• wattle and daub
• whole-house systems approach
• window
• wingwall
• woven wire mesh



• yurt



• zero energy home
• Z-flashing
• zone
• zone of visual influence