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Tiny House Incorporates Biophilic Design And A Living Roof

Natural Building

This tiny home has been designed to incorporate elements of biophilic design and natural building to create a home on wheels which is beautiful, natural and healthy to live in, proving that a tiny house can truly be capable of having a big positive impact. You can watch this video at www.youtube.com.

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Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction

Construction Specifier

While some of the population searched under houses and in bushes to find these creatures, others saw a business opportunity and established cobra farms to maintain a more consistent supply of snakes. However, the vast majority of architecture, engineering, and construction firms have not compensated for these material changes to concrete.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Magnesium.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Super-Insulated Houses. Green Electrical Contracting. Responding to Catastrophe. Living Walls.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

BD+C

faces a housing deficit of 3.8 Issue 2: Adding natural light Housing facilities require exterior views in living units and it’s important to consider how this can be accomplished in an office conversion. The architectural layout of a residential unit is unlikely to align with the office framing concept. Portland, Ore.

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Making the Transition to Net Zero Homes: Product Design

Pro Builder

The optimum roof pitch at which to place a solar array for a net zero home generally coincides with the home’s geographic latitude, says architect Steven Baczek, of Steven Baczek Architecture , in Redding, Mass. Let’s say a house is on a lot on a golf course. RELATED ARTICLES IN THIS NET ZERO SERIES. Windows and Home Energy Demand.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Straw/Cement.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. The Earthbag Architecture of Akio Inoue. View my complete profile. Anti Global Warming Theory.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Protection from.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Their houses made of mud and wood were unstable and they were frequently becoming prey to wild animals, i.e