Natural Building

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This contemporary Australian home by Sustainable Building and Design, completed in 2020, showcases what is possible when sustainability is the goal. The design takes full advantage of passive solar principles and minimizes the amount of energy required for heating or cooling. Hot water is generated by another heat pump. kWh battery.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The benefits of strategic multifamily housing repositioning 0 dbarista Thu, 09/21/2023 - 13:12 MFPRO+ Blog With the rapid increase in new multifamily housing developments, owners of existing assets face increasing competition. The only way to solve the housing crisis is to add more housing.

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Construction Business Owner

MARCH 31, 2023

Bundle Propane Generators & Appliances for More Affordable & Resilient Protection Make propane generators an easier sell by using propane for critical systems mhodges Fri, 03/31/2023 - 14:23 A reliable propane standby generator is a key part of resilient design. Now, every machine we install can do load monitoring.”

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are All-Electric Homes The Future? Despite this, some builders predict a shift in coming years to all-electric homes, and are trying to get ahead of that trend. Hesays that stricter code requirements, along with better heating and cooling technology, are making electric homes more attractive. . Why Electric? kcichowicz.

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Pro Builder

JANUARY 25, 2022

Housing's Incremental Innovation Path. housing industry is not innovative are, in a word, crap. 2022 Housing Forecast: Opportunities and Challenges. I would counter that even Tesla’s journey can’t fully compare to the roadblocks hindering the adoption of Innovation in housing, especially on the production side.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 18, 2023

Top 10 Ivory Innovations Finalists for the 2023 Housing Affordability Prize qpurcell Tue, 04/18/2023 - 09:57 Yesterday, Ivory Innovations announced the Top 10 Finalists for the 2023 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability. The 2023 Ivory Prize Winners will be announced on May 24, 2023, at PCBC in Anaheim, California.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

How is artificial intelligence impacting data center design? 0 qpurcell Wed, 11/22/2023 - 17:00 Data Centers As AI is reshaping how we interact with machines and the world around us, the design of data centers needs to adapt to this fast-changing landscape. And there is no one-size-fits-all approach for data centers.

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Pro Builder

MARCH 16, 2023

Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize esorum Thu, 03/16/2023 - 09:09 This year’s finalists in the Construction & Design category include solutions to the labor shortage as well as environmentally friendly building solutions focused on decreasing construction time.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Known as the Matatara Cob House, it took several years to build to New Zealand Earth Building Standards – with its original owners completing the process by hand in 2012. Outbuildings include a hut and a cob chicken house. The home was designed to function off the main power grid,” said Knud Bukholt.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

3 Ways Lean Design Can Help Home Builders Recover Margins. Using a Lean design and construction approach, home builders can reduce waste and costs without sacrificing amenities or marketability of their produc. What Is Lean Design in Home Building? What Is Lean Design in Home Building? Lean Design for Home Builders?

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Spartan Giordano was 28 years old when he designed and started building a zero fossil fuel energy home In Greenfield, Massachusetts. Spartan said, “I have not paid an electric or heating bill for seven years, since both the solar hot water and collectors generating electricity started running — just water/sewer, mortgage and taxes.

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CivilJungle

JULY 12, 2022

What Are Floating Houses? Floating house is generally a modern type of technology which is very popular in recent times. In today’s world, there are lack of free space to build a house or any type of structure because all the accessible free places are almost covered up. It is designed by Studio Tom Emerson and 30 students.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Western Solar has completed three innovative housing projects using a special low-energy design that was pioneered at Wales’ first solar village in Glanrhyd, Pembrokeshire, in 2017. There are a range of projects to develop new solutions to the climate crisis and the urgent need for affordable public housing.

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BD+C

JANUARY 10, 2024

Award-winning civic design firm RossDrulisCusenbery joins DLR Group DLR Group today announced the acquisition of Sonoma, California based civic and public safety design firm RossDrulisCusenbery (RDC). The addition of RDC adds focused design excellence of new building types to DLR Group’s global Justice+Civic studio.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 30, 2020

When Cyclone Amphan tore through Bengal, India, Linus Kendall and Rupsa Nath’s house, built with mud, thatch and bamboo sustained minimal damage. Other houses in the vicinity suffered broken window panes or missing tin sheds, but their unique home stood tall. Linus Kendall shared these details about their house, built in 2017. “I

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Natural Building

APRIL 4, 2021

The Stoltz Bluff Eco-Retreat is a monolithic cob house that’s completely off-grid. It has a 1-kilowatt solar power system and a backup generator for electricity, a propane radiant in-floor heating system and a Rumford fireplace for heat, and a constructed wetland for natural wastewater treatment.

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BD+C

AUGUST 17, 2023

How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel 0 qpurcell Thu, 08/17/2023 - 09:52 Adaptive Reuse Gresham Smith demonstrates the opportunities of adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail and malls, many of which sit unused or underutilized across the country. Harvest the value of the existing space.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Designed by architect Paul Leech, whose other design work spans decades of environmentally-sensitive projects, the steeply-pitched building has 2,300 sq ft within, with some dramatically shaped rooms. This circulates warm water in the building, and is more efficient than electricity consuming air-to-water pumps.

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Natural Building

APRIL 26, 2021

Department of Energy Solar Decathlon building event: they designed a net-zero energy house in Fraser, Colorado, one of the coldest towns in the nation. The CU team’s house is just under 1,200-square feet with 1.5 baths and a bedroom in the main house and a one bed/one bath in an accessory dwelling unit. photo: Casey A.

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Natural Building

MAY 30, 2021

When Laura Hood bought 155 acres and a home near Wenatchee, WA, there was a caved-in root cellar near the house. The root cellar is thought to be the first white settler house built in the area by James Christiansen in 1886. The post Historic House/Root Cellar is Restored appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Natural Building

JUNE 14, 2020

Here is a list compiled by The Edge of Malaysia of eco-friendly alternative housing, Photo by Øyvind Holmstad. Finished off with plaster a straw bale house is airtight, pest-proof and fireproof, making it sturdy and impossible to be blown down. The natural beauty of a stone house is timeless and maintenance-free.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This 410-square-foot tiny home designed by Texas-based Plum Construction, is located a few blocks from the beach in Galveston, Texas, and is known as LaLa’s Seaesta. The gable decoration in the front of the house is constructed from reclaimed cypress wood from a nearby house that dates back 120 years.

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Pro Builder

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

How Low-cost, Allergy-Free ‘Passive’ Homes Offer an Affordable Housing Solution. As climate concerns and wellness design preferences usher in a new frontier of residential construction, ‘passive’ buildings are coming into play as efficient housing solutions. Fri, 02/25/2022 - 10:21. Energy Efficiency. Resilient Construction.

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Construction Enquirer

JUNE 9, 2023

Construction firms are being called up to bid for a new Parliamentary Construction Works Framework to carry out interim repairs and improvements to the House of Commons and Lords estates. The £750m framework is being set up as a successor to the existing MEPFS (Mechanical, Electrical, Public health, and Fabric Safety) framework.

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Lets Build

JUNE 2, 2017

Global warming is one of the main reasons why sustainable housing is ideal for future construction. Today in many countries there is a lack of housing while population growth is increasing and poverty is found all over the world. Electricity bills will go down as less energy will be needed to warm or cool you home.

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Pro Builder

JULY 26, 2020

Andrés Duany on New Urbanism’s Legacy and a Solution for Affordable Housing. As a leading advocate for smart growth, Miami-based architect and urban planner Andrés Duany's vision for housing development and affordability is both bold and practical. No Nonsense Housing Company. PB: How do you assess housing affordability? .

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Natural Building

JUNE 24, 2020

Welcome to the Jungle House was designed by one of Australia’s champions of sustainable architecture, Clinton Cole. It was designed to attract attention,” said Mr Cole. The three-story house is hidden behind the heritage-listed facade of an old warehouse. But it made it easier in the end. Photos are by Murray Fredericks.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 17, 2020

Navistar will open a new facility in Rochester Hills, Michigan, to house its NEXT eMobility Solutions business unit. The building will serve as the technical lead location for NEXT and will include design, engineering, and analysis of all its electric vehicles and batteries. “We We are very happy to…

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Natural Building

JULY 22, 2020

Mark Clipsham has come up with some new plans for affordable grain bin houses. The electric and plumbing on the exterior walls are accessible without demolition after they are built. These are designed to last hundreds of years. The post Grain Bins as Affordable Housing appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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The Korte Company

JANUARY 19, 2024

Multi-phased Design-Build. Building a multi-layered design from cloud point data We’ve done more than a dozen jobs in our 20+ years with Hershey — but this was just the second for Project Designer Alex Engelbrecht. When the design phase kicked off in January 2022, Alex first focused on keeping key components clash-free.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The Eagleyew house is a beautifully sculpted custom green home built with nearly 100% natural materials. This house has three heat sources: passive solar, a masonry stove, and an annualized geo solar system. The house is connected to the grid for electricity. You can watch the video at www.youtube.com.

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CivilJungle

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Definition of Design Period: Design period could be defined as the number of years in the near future in which the supply will surpass the demand. Why Design Period Is Provided? The main reasons behind providing Design Periods are: It is prodigiously strenuous or unfeasible to produce frequent. Life of the structure.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 14, 2021

I started out building hot-air solar collectors and designing root cellars with sunspaces on top. For those designs, I fed air to the root cellar via a 50-foot ground tube. It worked great, preserving food for winter, helping heating the house, and cooling the sunspace in the summer. I was hooked.”

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Construction Enquirer

MAY 9, 2023

Magnox is ready to start a major decommissioning project to clean-up and demolish four ‘blower house’ superstructures that surround the Berkeley site’s two reactor buildings. Altrad has bagged a £31m contract for the design, asbestos removal, deplant, demolition and construction works in and around the blower houses.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 1, 2020

Why Bringing Fresh Air Into a House Is a Big Deal. But that isn’t the ideal way to build a house. For most existing homes, exhaust systems are effective at removing stale air, pollution, or moisture from a house. Ductless HVAC From Mitsubishi Electric. Mon, 06/01/2020 - 21:53. Maynard, Senior Editor, Products.

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Construction Specifier

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Renovating and expanding an art museum designed by a well-known Italian architect comes with its share of design challenges. It is a two-towered, eight-story, castle-like gallery designed by Italian modernist Gio Ponti and completed in 1971. Photos courtesy James Florio. By Ally James.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 12, 2020

He calls it the Red Container and it was primarily designed as an exercise to promote Shinshu larch, a local species of Japan’s Nagano Prefecture that had long been overlooked because of its tendency to warp. The post Larch is Featured in this Japanese Tiny House appeared first on Natural Building Blog. Photos by takeshi noguchi.

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