The Fine Homebuilding Interview: Matt Risinger
This Austin builder is using his growing network to teach builders and clients to demand better.
Synopsis: In the second installment of the Fine Homebuilding interview series, Aaron Fagan interviews Matt Risinger, host of The Build Show. Matt describes the building-science learning curve, America’s short-term view of houses, and how more and more builders are interested in building better.
We caught up with regular
Fine Homebuilding contributor Matt Risinger as he was en route from his home in Austin, Texas, to a job site in Missouri where he would be meeting with builder Jake Bruton and architect Steve Baczek. They are all part of The Build Show Network, Risinger’s growing group of mentors utilizing social-media platforms to advance the culture of the home-building industry by holding it to a higher standard through the power of example.
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2nd Annual Wall-Assembly Contest Kickoff
This reboot of the Kansas City BS and Beer gang s #WallAssemblySweet16 competition gives construction and design students a chance to show off their knowledge.
On March 2, 2021 Connor Malloy of George Brown College, Matt Blomquist, a building technologies teacher in Taylorville Illinois, and Travis Brungardt of BSandBeerKC.org kicked off this year’s #WallAssemblySweet16 competition a bracketed tournament of wall-construction plans for high-performance homes.
Last year’s competition was full of great designs submitted by home-building pros, with building-science heavy hitters Ben Bogie and Michael Maines facing off in the final.
This year the organizers are limiting the competition to students, and both Connor and Matt have shared it with their fellow educators across North America to make it part of a nationwide curriculum. The resulting competition was explained in this conversation (in the video above) live on Tuesday, March 2nd, t
IBSx Roundtable: Roofing To Withstand More Frequent, More Extreme Storms
Fine Homebuilding talks with industry experts about techniques and technology that can help houses hold up better in extreme weather events.
ZIP System Roof Assembly
This discussion delves into solutions for improving roof assemblies to handle extreme wind and hail and why such measures are increasingly important to take. To reduce roof failures, researchers, product developers, and builders have been examining the causes of roof failures, developing solutions to mitigate those failures, and both implementing them on new homes and retrofitting them on existing structures.
Matt Millham heads up this panel, inviting into the discussion a range of experts with unique insights into this topic.
Podcast 323: Addition Airtightness, Beam Rescue, and Air-Sealing Around a Chimney
Matt, Kiley, and Patrick hear from listeners about hiding foam insulation and homemade light fixtures before taking listener questions on the appropriate airtightness for an addition, fixing a badly hacked beam, and the right way to air-seal around a chimney.
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Andrew offers his low-buck solution for hiding foam foundation insulation. Carson shows off his good-looking homemade light fixtures. Steve doesn’t mind doing home repairs for friends and family. Dwight explains his experience with outdoor tile in Nova Scotia. James asks how tight he should make his addition. Zak wonders if the improvements to his home have hurt it historically. Ben asks about the right way to air-seal around a brick chimney.
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