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| [Image: imbalance]Preventing Dangerous Combustion Pollution Every source of combustion in the home vented to the outdoors... |
| Your Healthy Home Checklist Use this checklist to explore features and components of your sustainable Louisiana house. |
| Be Aware of Your Indoor Air Contaminant Sources Don't let your own home make you sick... |
| Moisture Control - Roofing and Architectual Details Details count when it comes to protecting your house from moisture. |
| Minimize Use of Environmental Hazards Avoid using chemicals in your home that are potentially harmful to the environment. |
| Protecting Water Quality Ensure the integrity of the water quality in your home and reduce the amount of contaminents carried by storwater off your home site. |
| Control Humidity to Control Mold, Dust Mites Biological air pollutants affect the health of more people than any other indoor pollutant... |
| Clearing the Air for a Healthy Home Breathe easy inside... |
| Your Convienient and Practical Checklist Use this checklist to explore components and features of your sustainable Louisiana house. |
| Drain the Rain on the Plane Create a continuous drainage plane to keep moisture moving away properly. |
| Balance Benefits of Building Systems Building systems that integrate and balance the five criteria for a sustainable, high-performance home... |
| Shift Toward Renewable and Zero Energy Get off the grid and use renewable energy sources to power your home. |
| Fire Protection Options For higher levels of protection and possibly discounted property insurance, consider these options... |
| LaHouse: Open House Schedule LaHouse has reopened its doors to the public four days per week. |
| LaHouse Facility Rental Fees The LaHouse Teaching Center and House are available for your next meeting. Facilities are FREE for LSU AgCenter educational and professional activities. LSU, government and commercial rates are comparable to similar campus venues. LaHouse is located outside of the LSU campus zoned parking plan, allowing for hassle-free parking for visitors. Handicapped-accessible and on-site bus parking are available. |
| Monthly Horticulture Lunch and Learn (June-Sept. 2009) Join us at LaHouse for an hour packed with beneficial landscaping tips and techniques.Each Friday seminar will be noon to 1 p.m. at LaHouse.June 12--Louisiana Irises (Claire Fontenot)July 10--Bog Area Plants (Dan Gill)August 7--Butterfly Gardens (Allen Owings)September 11--Herb Gardens (John Young) |
| Expert Presents ‘Best Building Practices’ Seminars Across South Louisiana The hurricanes of 2005 demonstrated what works and what doesn’t for the home-building industry, a prominent building expert said recently during a series of seminars across southern Louisiana presented by the LSU AgCenter. |
| LaHouse Contact Information LaHouse Office: 225-578-7913, LaHouse Main number: 225-578-2378, LaHouse Fax number: 225-578-9228, Address: LSU Campus-Gourrier Avenue between Nicholson Drive and River Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803. |
| Checklist for Termite Resistance Use this checklist to explore and select features and components of a sustainable house in Louisiana. |
| A Portrait of the Vision The new master site plan creates a portrait of the vision for Louisiana House – Home and Landscape Resource Center. It shows the long-range plan for its seven-acre site on Gourier Lane, west of Nicholson Drive and adjacent to the LSU golf course and shop. |
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| Inscribed Brick Order Form Imagine walking through beautifully landscaped grounds and seeing a brick paver with your name permanently engraved on it. |
| Gifts And In-kind Donations To LaHouse Gifts and letters of commitment for in-kind donations should be addressed to Chancellor William Richardson and mailed to this address. |
| LaHouse Building Systems and Features (West Wing) Description of building systems and features on the west wing of LaHouse. |
| LaHouse Building Systems and Features (Garage) A room-by-room description of the systems and features of LaHouse. |
| LaHouse Building Systems and Features (East Wing) Description of building systems and features of the East Wing of LaHouse. |
| LaHouse building features (Throughout) Descriptions of building features thoughout LaHouse. |
| LaHouse Building Systems and Features (Mid Section) Description of the building systems and features of the Mid-section of LaHouse. |
| Contracting Basics Choosing the right contractors -- and knowing how to work with them -- can mean the difference between excellent work and shoddy work. Informed homeowners can save time and headaches and get the best value for their money. |
| Groundbreaking Celebration - Louisiana House Home & Landscape Resource Center More than 100 Contributors, Partners, Allies, team members and friends participated in the July 15, 2003, Louisiana House – Home and Landscape Resource Center (LaHouse) groundbreaking ceremony and recognition reception on the LaHouse site. |
| LaHouse on the Move - Louisiana House Home and Landscape Resource Center Moving and evolving with LSU’s campus master planning process over the last year, the third and final Louisiana House location, master site plan and house design were officially approved by the LSU Board of Supervisors in April 2002 |
| Many Thanks to Early Key Contributors Great appreciation and a heartfelt welcome go to the newest Key Contributors for their generous gifts to the LSU Foundation for Louisiana House. |
| Floor Plans: Louisiana House - Home & Landscape Resource Center Louisiana House Floor Plans |
| Lead and Mold Safe Work Practices (New Orleans Area) Many homes built before 1978 contain lead-based paint. It is important that renovation, remodeling and repair activities use methods that reduce and control dust and debris created during work. Even a small amount of dust can pose a serious health risk to children, families and the workers themselves. You can help prevent childhood lead poisoning by learning to work lead safe. Attendees will learn skills to safely renovate older housing and prevent childhood lead poisoning. Participants |
| LaHouse leads the way for sustainable housing in Louisiana The LSU AgCenter's "LaHouse" is designed to stand up to hurricane-force winds, swarming insects and harmful humidity. This family-type home is designed to showcase innovations in home construction for Louisiana’s sub-tropical climate. |
| Get Involved - Louisiana House Home & Landscape Resource Center Consider how you will benefit from LaHouse and explore the advantages of being recognized as a: Key Contributor, Key Partner, Key Ally, or Brick Donor. |
| Dedicate a Room in Louisiana House Charter Diamond, Platinum and Gold Key Contributors to LaHouse capital campaign may select and permanently dedicate a room or feature as an exclusive recognition opportunity (while available). |
| Forms of Recognition and Benefits of Getting Involved The widespread educational outreach of LaHouse will create ongoing, high exposure and promote related interests -- throughout Louisiana and the southern region. |
| Become a LaHouse Volunteer Volunteers are needed to assist with a variety of tasks. |
| Photo Gallery - Louisiana House - Home & Landscape Resource Center Browse this photo gallery to see progress from the current stage of construction to groundbreaking, highlighting special features, products and techniques used. |
| Improve Your Home and Profit; Make It Stronger, Safer, Smarter Floods, hurricanes and soaring energy prices happen, but they don’t have to bust your budget, damage your home, rob your time or deny your comfort. You can make your home stronger, safer and smarter byincluding both energy-saving and hazard-resistant mprovements whenyou remodel or restore it. |
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| Building Your High-Performance Home - Gulf Region Homeowners Guide This 88-page, spiral-bound book includes a user-friendly overview of key design and building principles for a hot, humid climate and Gulf Region conditions, a planning checklist of recommended features and their benefits, a reference guide explaining each item on the checklist and a list of many other sustainable home information resources. TO PLACE YOUR ORDER using a credit card, click on the "order publication" link below. To purchase with a check, please use the order form. |
| Alliance with the LSU Hurricane Center The Louisiana House Learning Center and LSU Hurricane Center are cooperating to make sure the Louisiana House incorporates hazard-resistant features based on the best local research data available. |
| House and Landscape Designers Selected On Novermber 10, 2000, Remson-Haley Architects (RHA) has been selected to design the Louisiana House and produce a master plan for development of the six-acre site. |
| Walls that Work in the South and Why In hot, humid climates, walls should be built to keep moisture out. |
| Plan to Future-Proof Your Home Consider advanced wiring and designing adaptable spaces.... |
| Tips for a Family-friendly and Functional Floor Plan Follow design guidelines to make your home functional for life... |
| Building Systems -- High-performance Options Building systems that integrate the five criteria for Gulf Region Conditions. |
| Moisture Basics - Clues to Moisture Problem Mysteries Find the water vapor balance... |
| Air Basics- The Invisible Transporter Air equalizes between higher and lower pressure areas- whether you want it to or not... |
| Heat Basics- Why Insulation Isn't Enough Heat moves three ways... |
| Lighting with Fewer Watts, Less Heat Lighting can account for 15% of a home's yearly electric bill... |
| Appliances with Low Life-Cycle Costs Look for ENERGY STAR appliances and compare Energy Guide labels... |
| Efficient Cooling and Heating in a Hot, Humid Climate ENERGYSTAR labels are more efficient and cost effective... |
| Insulation Systems with Good "Whole Wall" R-Values The higher the R-value, the greater the insulating ability... |
| Tight Construction for a Continuous Air Barrier Homes should create a continuous air barrier system that surrounds all conditioned space... |
| High Performance Windows for the South In a warm climate, reducing solar heat gain (and air leakage) through a window is even more important than a high insulating value. |
| Design for the Climate In the Gulf Region, this means reducing summer heat gain.... |
| Your Energy Efficient Home Checklist Use this checklist to explore components and features of your sustainable Louisiana house. |
| Using Suitable Green Materials Choose environmentally-friendly products to avoid pollution and the depletion of natural resources. |
| Reducing Waste Reducing the amount of waste produced when building and living in homes can make a big difference in the number, longevity and cost of needed landfills. |
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| LaHouse to Showcase Best Landscape and Horticulture Practives Since the inception of the idea for Louisiana House, landscape and horticulture features have been an integral part of the project. |
| LaHouse on the Move The third and final Louisiana House location, master site plan and house design were officially approved by the LSU Board of Supervisors in April 2002. |
| Paula Manship is First Diamond Key Contributor Paula Manship was honored with a ceremonial tree planting at the Louisiana House Site Premier for her generous contribution of $100,000 to support landscaping the six-acre Louisiana House Learning Center site on November 21, 2000. With this gift to the LSU Foundation for the LaHouse Project, Mrs. Manship became the first Louisiana House Diamond Key Contributor. |
| Two LaHouse Designs Through the talent, dedication and generosity of Remson-Haley Architects, Inc., Louisiana House now has two designs. |
| LaHouse is a new US DOE Building America Partner LaHouse will have the benefit and notoriety of being a Dept. of Energy Building America (BA) Partner, receiving free technical assistance from not just one, but two renowned BA teams. |
| Concrete Tile Roofing - 1st Story Roof Concrete tile is very long-lasting, yet more hail-resistant and less expensive than clay or slate. |
| Sponsors & Partners Thank you to all our generous donors to LaHouse. |
| LaHouse Educational Outreach Under Way With support from Key Partners, the Louisiana Dept. of Natural Resources and U.S. Dept. of Energy, Building Your Louisiana House – Homeowners Guide has been developed and printed. It was written to be a comprehensive, yet consumer-friendly, companion to LaHouse. |
| Contractor on Board The LaHouse team is thrilled and honored to welcome a contractor who will help to make the Louisiana House vision a reality. Roy Domangue of Wooden Creations has offered to contribute his services as the LaHouse home building contractor. |
| LaHouse Exhibiting Stronger, Safer, Smarter Construction (Distributed 10/25/05) The LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana House Home and Landscape Resource Center is giving the public opportunities to see aspects of its stronger, safer and smarter construction. |
| Key Partners Support the Vision The La. Dept. of Natural Resources and the Dept. of Energy provide major support to the AgCenter's sustainable housing programming, the Louisiana House initiative and house design development. |
| Kick-off Workshop More than 100 people from a broad spectrum of backgrounds participated in the Louisiana House Learning Center Planning Workshop July 18, 2000, in the LSU Design Building. |
| Building Your Louisiana House: A Homeowner's Guide to Shaping the Future for Louisiana Living This guide is not a technical detailed construction manual. Instead, its purpose is to serve as a comprehensive planning and analysis tool. Find information on advantageous components of a sustainable house in Louisiana, a range of ways to address the criteria - from low-cost options to higher-end, higher-performance solutions and basic principles of building science that should be considered when choosing and installing any building system or technology in a hot-humid or mixed-humid climate. |
| Donate an Inscribed Brick to Help Pave a Path of LaHouse Donate an inscribed brick to be permanently installed on a walkway or trail of the scenic LaHouse landscape exhibit. |
| LaHouse Design is Taking Shape Following design discussions with technical experts and feedback from the extended House Design Advisory team, the original concept design was premiered at the 2001 Earth Day Festival. The new site offers a wonderful opportunity to nestle the house within a group of beautiful, shady live oak trees – so the house design is now being modified to fit the new site and its features. |
| Entergy Honored Representing Entergy Louisiana, Renae Conley (CEO) was honored for becoming the first corporate LaHouse Diamond Key Contributor. |
| Meet LaHouse Team LaHouse program coordinators have been appointed – completing the team that guides the construction of Louisiana House Resource Center, then will build its educational program. |
| Teaching Center Foundation and Plumbing #1 Browse this photo gallery to see progress from the current stage of construction to groundbreaking, highlighting special features, products and techniques used. |
| LSU Students help build LaHouse The construction of the LaHouse teaching center provided a unique learning and service opportunity for LSU construction management (CM) students. |
| Building Expert Advises To Build Stronger, Smarter An ounce of prevention can be worth a pound of cure when it comes to building homes that stand in the path of a hurricane. Stronger and smarter is the message building specialists are sending to builders and homeowners. (TV News 1/2/06. Runtime: 1 minute 34 seconds) |
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| LaHouse Influences Building Techniques Construction continues on the LSU AgCenter’s showcase home, the Louisiana House Home and Landscape Resource Center. The special features of the structure could influence techniques and components used to rebuild hurricane-damaged areas. Runtime: 60 seconds. (Radio News 1/9/06). |
| Expert Advises Building Stronger, Smarter Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed how vulnerable standard buildings can be to powerful storms. A lesson from these storms is to build stronger and smarter, the experts say. Runtime: 60 seconds. (Radio News 1/9/06) |
| Builders, Homeowners Have Options When Rebuilding Representatives with the U.S. Department of Energy toured the LSU AgCenter’s showcase home, known as LaHouse, and said this structure shows what homeowners can do to streghten their homes and make them more efficient. Runtime: 60 seconds. (Radio News 1/9/06) |
| LSU AgCenter Housing Seminar Focuses On Post-hurricane Construction Joseph Lstiburek, a principal of Building Science Corp. of Westford, Mass., and an international expert on moisture-related building problems, recently led a two-part seminar on designing and building for extreme climates. Sponsored by the LSU AgCenter, the program was held in Baton Rouge last week (Dec. 15). |
| Reinforced House Withstands Storms (TV News For 11/21/05) Added safety measures can make a difference on a home when a storm threatens. The proof stands on a corner lot in a development in Plaquemines Parish. |
| FEMA Officials Visit LaHouse To Stress Rebuilding Stronger, Safer, Smarter Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to an LSU AgCenter educational site Wednesday (Nov. 9) to stress that rebuilding "stronger, safer and smarter" is the way to go for those affected by this summer’s hurricanes. Such construction is a major theme behind the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana House Home and Landscape Resource Center. |
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