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Models for Providing Affordable, Ecological Housing

Natural Building

Models for housing vary enormously, from self-build, to socially provided housing and speculative, private markets. But the failure of rent-based models to provide homes that people can afford, especially in big cities and larger towns, plus the urgent need for buildings to go zero-carbon, or carbon negative, is pushing innovation.

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Sustainability at Queen’s University in Canada

Natural Building

Sustainability Professor, Steven Moore, wants Queen’s University in Ontario Canada to be a moral and sustainable leader through their actions. Moore models sustainability through his own lifestyle, living in an earth-sheltered house in Tamworth, facing the Salmon River. underground year-round.

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Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification

GCP Applied Technologies

Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. The webpage also provides downloads—helpful worksheets and a "Guidelines" PDF 1 —for plants to make strides toward sustainability. The webpage also provides downloads—helpful worksheets and a "Guidelines" PDF 1 —for plants to make strides toward sustainability.

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CEU Article: Designing buildings for real performance

SAB Magazine

The next great leap in the design of sustainable buildings is measuring and reporting the operational building performance. Traditionally design teams have ensured buildings are built as designed but have had limited involvement in the operation of a building.

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California is a Model for PACE Loan Reform

Green Building Law Update

California’s statutory changes to its existing residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program, that became effective January 1, 2017, may be a model for residential PACE programs across the nation. The first residential PACE program started in Berkeley, California in 2007. To that end, the State enacted Assembly Bill No.

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Rammed Earth for a Sustainable Future in Nepal

Natural Building

Narayan Acharya builds eco-friendly buildings in Nepal through his startup named Sustainable Future. Sustainable Future finds the clay, stone, and soil required for the construction from the site area only. They had already created about five rammed-earth-model structures before the 2015 earthquake hit Nepal. onlinekhabar.com.

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Cloud Computing and BIM – Article 2012 – TME

Building Information Management

Cloud Computing and BIM - TME Article 2012. Modeling (BIM) and Cloud Computing. The increasingly competitive financial. and environmental landscape requires. public and private institutions to further. maximize facility planning and management. Technologies such as Building Information. Cloud) are disruptive technologies. practices.

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