The High Performance Home Blog

We recently finished installing NewTech Vertical siding over the rainscreen on the second floor exterior and a portion of the first floor.

Living in a Passive House allows you to stay true to your values, it enables sustainability, facilitates community, and gives you back your time to spend how you please.

Congrats to Levi Caraway on passing his Certified Passive House Builder exam!

Living in a high-performance home is the most impactful thing you can personally do to create a positive impact on the planet’s health and is more substantial than many realize.

Taking a simple extra step after pouring your foundation footings can make such a difference in the long term durability of your new custom home.

A truly eye-catching design element of the Prairie Village High Performance Home is the flat roof. Our job was to make sure that the design will stand the test of time. While flat roofs offer a sleek, modern appeal they also cause concerns with long term durability.

Footings are a crucial early step in the construction process.

The Kala team attended the third annual Climate Action Summit at Rockhurst College this past Saturday.

As soon as suburban neighborhoods started springing up in the 1950s, the ways that American homeowners defined luxury and value changed.