Dan Kolbert – Framing High-Performance Homes 2025

This comprehensive course covers the critical building science behind framing for different wall assembly types, including techniques, materials, and best practices for building resilient and high-performance walls, roofs, and floors. Through a combination of instructional interactive modules informed by real-world examples, you’ll learn how to plan, layout, and build different types of assemblies to increase the efficiency and long-term durability of homes. Dan Kolbert (“Pretty Good House”) will help you choose between Larsen Truss and Double-Stud walls, floors framed with Dimensional Lumber or I-Joists, Cut roofs vs Trusses and much, much more.

This course will provide critical information on how to frame your high-performance home. Starting with core building science principles, we will look at a variety of wall, roof and floor sections and talk about the various criteria for making decisions on which to choose. Then we will move on to implementation – planning, forming a team, and how to get the work done correctly, efficiently and cost-effectively, while keeping the end result and the planet in mind.