Natural Building

MARCH 8, 2022

It is a prefabricated structure designed by the architect, built with wood framing cassettes filled with flax insulation. Lastly, the architect intentionally designed his family home to use less building materials, requiring less transport and no water. It is a modern-style home located in an old sheep grazing heather field.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Insu-ram both cools and insulates a space from external heat without the use of machinery. Local biodegradable materials, such as rammed earth, clay, and manure cab be used in making the blocks. The blocks can be produced locally and offer a way to build thermally comfortable houses in a fast, cheap, and efficient way.

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Natural Building

MARCH 20, 2022

The current construction industry uses four primary material families – wood, metal, concrete, and organic polymers (plastics). The new material family bridges the gap between ceramic, cement, and epoxy. Bioceramic has a very low thermal expansion coefficient and forms waterproof “cold-joints”. 100% Non-Toxic. Mold Proof.

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Lecture: A short introduction to Earth and Natural Building – Different building techniques using natural materials, advantages and limitations of the building material earth, earth building from a Building Biology/Ecology (BBE) perspective. Module 2: Retrofitting with Natural Materials.

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Thermal buffering. Limited appropriate materials for building. What materials can be used? insulated concrete forms. The post Earth-Sheltered Architecture Discussion appeared first on Natural Building Blog. Our last meeting was dedicated to a discussion about earth-sheltering that I led. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As I’m sure you all know, earth is the most eco-friendly building material, but earth building is very labor-intensive and thus, quite expensive in the Western World. See our blogs for further details. Otherwise, a solid thermal mass wall will bleed energy much of the time, rendering the interior space either too cold or too hot.

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Natural Building

JULY 14, 2021

The design applies passive solar principles with thermal mass, insulation and cross ventilation. He chose to change the main entry point to a north-facing courtyard formed with three walls of three separate materials, including the weatherboard from the old house, recycled brick and a timber screen.

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Natural Building

JUNE 14, 2020

It provides great insulation and can easily keep heat in or out. Depending on the density of the wood, logs can provide elements of thermal mass and insulation. Any kind of building material — brick, stone or wood — can be used. Stone is one of the most durable natural building materials in the world.

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Natural Building

MARCH 24, 2021

Building with adobe — a material created by mixing clay-rich soil with straw, sand, and other organic materials — has been in use since 8300 BC. This is sustainable because the materials have low embodied energy, are locally abundant, and can create energy-efficient buildings. The word “Adobe” derives from the Arabic “al ??b”

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Natural Building

MAY 24, 2020

” So I answered, “What you describe is the classic result of building a solid thermal mass building in a climate with temperatures that get too hot too much of the time. The only real way to fix this is to insulate the house on the outside somehow. Then it will be the most comfortable house in your neighborhood.

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Natural Building

MARCH 18, 2020

There are two main kinds of rammed earth: Raw, which is carefully mixed earthen materials and stabilized , where some kind of binder, usually cement, is added to hold it together. Architect Martin Rauch says: Interfering in the material properties of loam is detrimental. The material cost is literally dirt cheap.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Earthships are constructed with recycled materials and have the capacity to collect, store and recycle their own water, heat themselves, generate their own power, produce food, and handle their own waste. Heating is achieved via solar absorption into and gradual release from interior thermal mass. And make people happy,” Connie smiles.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Therefore, flyash based CLC is considered as environment friendly sustainable material produced with least energy demand. Fly ash can constitutes more than 25% (ranging between 26% to 33%) of the solid material constituents of CLC mixes for different density outputs.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 24, 2020

So they wrote down their values and priorities, and finally decided which method and materials fit best. Some of their priorities: natural and sustainable building materials, as much as possible. Then build a well designed, super insulated structure with the best, most expensive available windows and synthetic materials.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 12, 2021

Lecture: A short introduction to Earth and Natural Building – Different building techniques using natural materials, advantages and limitations of the building material earth, earth building from a Building Biology/Ecology (BBE) perspective. Week 2: Retrofitting with Natural Materials. Week 9: Adobe Brick Technique.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 16, 2022

Ankit said, “I started organic farming and building mud houses using organic materials like locally available red mud and brown mud, jaggery, honey and egg yolk, an ancient tribal technique of house building. The homes enable cost-efficient thermal insulation, natural malleability while reducing their carbon footprint.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Do you understand that for reasons of thermal efficiency it is is preferable to have the insulation (LCS) on the outside of the wall and the thermal mass (stone) on the inside? The post Question about Light Straw/Clay Answered appeared first on Natural Building Blog. 3) Water getting into the wall from leaky pipes.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 4, 2022

Overall, straw is a sustainable material that has plenty of redeemable features when it comes to construction, though it may not be suited for everyone or every situation. Straw bale houses are considered eco-friendly thanks to the main material, straw, being a completely renewable byproduct of the agricultural industry.

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Natural Building

APRIL 16, 2014

To my knowledge, building science has never been approached with such an attitude of precise evaluation of all of the factors that affect the environmental impact of materials and building systems. The environmental impacts include harvesting the material, manufacturing, transportation, and installation.

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Natural Building

MAY 6, 2020

The use of salvaged or locally sourced materials reduces raw material cost. Meanwhile, our material palette is more climatically appropriate and cheaper compared to high-end products sourced from abroad like the imported Italian marbles. You can read the original article at www.thebetterindia.com.

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Natural Building

MAY 2, 2021

Learn skills, techniques, and design theory to create your own beautiful, durable, energy-efficient home from local and site-harvested materials. This workshop teaches a wide variety of techniques that you can choose depending on your climate and local material availability. Register at www.abuelagardens.com.

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Natural Building

MAY 20, 2021

Insulating your roof and the attic prevents all the heat that builds up as sunlight hits the roof from entering your house. Building your roof out of reflective materials is another way of making sure that less heat is absorbed through the roof.This means using materials that are lighter in color. “Now

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Natural Building

JUNE 6, 2021

There are several key elements that need to be considered: 1) the overhangs of the roof to mitigate the weathering of bamboo poles from direct sun and rain, 2) the pitch of the roof for water flow, 3) the spacing of the rafters for rigidity, and finally, 4) the material used. Thermal insulation is an attractive benefit of this roof type.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 18, 2012

It is an extremely valuable resource for those interested in actually building with the materials that it covers, which are primarily wood, straw, earth and stone. Thermal performance strategies for natural building are investigated with a lot of corroborating data from actual testing the authors have done.

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Natural Building

APRIL 13, 2006

Also, the larger the house, the more materials go into its construction; materials which may have their own environmental consequences. The thermal mass is a kind of “heat battery” that stores the warmth, absorbing it to keep the room from getting too hot during the day. While this temperature (about 50-55 degrees F.)

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Natural Building

APRIL 18, 2006

It performs well because the design of the space and the choice of materials to build it cooperate in keeping the space comfortable. The basic concept is to use south-facing windows to allow the winter sun to enter the room, and then store the heat from that sunlight in some thermal mass material, so that the heat can be given back at night.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 2, 2022

There are no standards for making and using cob, and insulation needs to be added to the walls in order to meet building regulations. Called CobBauge, the conjoined British and French names for the material, the project is being led by Plymouth University. But the greater the percentage of insulation used, the weaker the mix.

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Natural Building

MARCH 12, 2020

The following blog post was written by Michael G. Building with locally-harvested materials reduces GHG emissions from both the manufacturing and transportation sectors, sometimes nearly to zero. It’s true that earthen walls have poor insulation value and are not appropriate on their own in cooler climates.

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Natural Building

JUNE 28, 2008

Using Earthbags as Ceiling Insulation. Strawboard building panels are a kind of structural insulated panel (SIP) designed to replace 2x4 stud and drywall construction for both interior and exterior walls, as well as provide load and non-bearing ceilings, roofing, doors, flooring, and prefabricated buildings. Global Warming Media.

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Natural Building

MAY 19, 2007

The concerns about their system that I have are: The use of wood as the primary building material is not generally sustainable in this day of lost forests. A New England winter has precious little sun, so my heating system will drive the convective loop, increasing heat loss (in addition to the insulation-free envelope). Does it work?

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Natural Building

JULY 27, 2008

Using Earthbags as Ceiling Insulation. These structures are exemplary of sustainable architecture in that they are built of local, natural materials with simple techniques. They have good thermal attributes, with the massive earthen walls to help buffer temperatures. Thermoplan and Zeigel Blocks. Urban Green Building.

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Contractor Magazine

JUNE 7, 2012

In fact, improvements in tank insulation, burner and heat exchanger technology mean that even today’s standard water heaters are much more efficient that they were just a decade ago — efficient enough for the price to satisfy many customers. Condensing water heaters can deliver from 90% to 98% thermal efficiency.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 18, 2007

At first natural materials such as burlap were used to manufacture the bags; more recently woven polypropylene has become the preferred material because of its superior strength. It was an Iranian-born architect named Nader Khalili who has popularized the notion of building permanent structures with bags filled with earthen materials.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 17, 2005

The softer indigenous architecture emerges only in style, not remnants, because the materials used were biodegradable. The shapes rendered with these materials are often curvatious and flowing, such as the common beach resort palapa. This original blog from which this comes is [link]

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 14, 2016

That written I decided to compile my own review of the new features and enhancements in a blog post. BIG STUFF New Features Videos - Start with these videos provided as part of the help documentation if you prefer watching videos to reading my blog post. Autodesk Raytracer is used when you render a material preview.

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