Screen reader version: H20 and carbon zero – At the highest level of green building, the finished home recycles water and uses little or no outside energy. It may include geothermal heating/cooling, solar hot water, a wind turbine and/or photovoltaics. […]
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Part 2 of Building with Pumice (read part 1>>) This chapter tells how to build several different kinds of houses using building members of the kind described. Typical, practical models that have already been successfully built in various countries were
Everyone would like to live in their own home. Many people in industrialized countries occupy apartments in multistorey buildings. This situation involves lots of problems for which there’s no immediate solution. This book is intended to stimulate interest in a
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Energy production from algal photosynthesis isn’t new of course, but with fifteen apartments, The BIQ building is the world’s first full-scale bioreactive façade. BIQ, which stands for Bio Intelligent Quotient, uses heat recovery as its main source of energy, capturing energy not used
Building deconstruction, or “construction in reverse,” is the most effective way to preserve the embodied energy of the materials that comprise the built environment. Deconstruction is defined as the comprehensive dismantlement of building components, specifically for reuse, resale, recycling and
Screen reader version: Number of LEED projects registered and certified in top regions by GSM (gross square metres – reported in millions) Latin America and Caribbean – 1,704 (39.5 GSM) Middle East and North Africa – 1,297 (69.2 GSM) North
Introduction This report summarizes the results of pre-and-post retrofit airtightness tests performed on 363 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba. This is a 16-storey office building constructed in 1976 which underwent a major building envelope retrofit during the summer of 2011 to replace
Based on a philosophy of optimizing for cost and performance rather than compromising, Tedd Benson’s Unity Homes offer both high quality and energy efficiency while being cost competitive. To deliver value to home buyers (including the Passive House standard of air tightness), Benson points to
